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  1. rent a toyota prius with unlimited miles - drive - max out driving time (like 15 hours a day) bring one nice suit rent motel one night (night before interview) SSS in motel - put nice clothes on interview and drive home Prius will get 50+ mpg on highway 100 miles each way = 2000miles 40 gallons of gas, $3/gal = $120 in gas $100 motel $100 car rental under $350 spent...
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  2. @Janab I emailed Mr. Dixon earlier in the week and he told me my application was still being scored and that they’re hoping to have final decisions by mid July :)
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  3. I'm pleased at the thoughtful dialogue. It is a welcome change from the typical. I'm one of the "old PAs" who thought about NP crossover many years ago. It was simple practicality. There are places that are more NP friendly and there are places that are more PA friendly. Having both certifications would make working where I wanted easier. I'm quite happy being a PA and have no concerns about my job particularly other than the usual corporate stuff. In another thread not an hour ago I said we need to stop obsessing with NPs and who is doing what and, particularly, we should not take the path of least resistance as we try to improve out lot in life unless it also happens to be what is best for us. You also touched on another of my recurring themes.... why should the NPs welcome us into their efforts? They have been making their own way for 15 years or more and have been successful while we remained in the warm embrace of our bestest buddies the physicians. Well guess which plan worked out better? So, while I think we should shift gears and start working with someone other than the physician groups, I wouldn't expect a big wet sloppy kiss on the face just because we are changing course. As PAs we just need to be looking out for our future and stop carrying on about anyone else.
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  4. me neither and I feel your angst trust me. My point was we need to stop obsessing about them and just fix us. If they do something crappy we shouldn't emulate it just because its the path of least resistance. We are better than that.
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  5. From your perspective it may seem like a reasonable request but from the practice manager's perspective it's a ridiculous thing to even ask about. "He wants us to give him money to fly him out here for an interview? What?" I'm in the same exact boat as you insofar as having no money and buried in deep debt so I know how you feel but you need to realize that unless you are being recruited by a clinic/hospital you really should not ask them for anything prior to being hired, especially not money to fly you out.
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  6. This is wildly unethical and I would throw your application out if I was on an admissions committee for that alone. OP, I personally would not have BIL write you a letter. Even if he can be impartial, other people reading the letter will doubt his impartiality anyway.
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  7. I recently took it, ~2 weeks after my graduation, though I really only studied for 5-6of those days. I only used Rosh review. I would do the Rosh questions, and if it sparked me to think about something else or I wanted to go more in depth, I would go through my didactic year notes and refresh myself. This is the same way I studied for EORs. Rosh predicted I'd get upper 500s with an 89% chance of passing, though I often used my notes while taking them and thus 'cheated' on the Rosh questions. Got 550s on actual PANCE. I got 150s on both my PACKRATs if anyone is wondering. I think whatever people have done to successfully take EORs, keep doing that for PANCE.
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  8. I signed up for July 19th. Congrats!!
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  9. Take a few minutes to browse the forums.
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  10. will be interviewing on 7/12 too!!, any advice/info from past or current students on how the interview is? need to calm my nerves so I will greatly appreciate it! also, good luck to everyone else who got interviews!!
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  11. It actually doesn't. The instant the patient is a credible threat of death or serious bodily injury, they're no longer a patient. The instant the ex-patient is subdued enough to not be a threat any longer, they're a patient again. If you've ever watched any of the full-length officer involved shooting videos, it's very common to see police shoot an aggressor, handcuff them, and then summon EMS and render first aid. Talk about emotional whiplash! But yet, it's what we need to be able to do...
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  13. No it is NOT. It states that no family, ever. I would NEVER get a LOR from anyone close to my family.
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  14. They just hired a new grad NP...although one with a lot of good RN experience beforehand.
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  15. ^^^^ Fantastic advice. Also, 20 years from now you will have a pretty interesting story to tell
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  16. our opinion literally does not matter.... what maters is perception and politics in these realms the degree matters. period this horse has left the barn.....
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  17. Hi Whitney this is Leanna from Lorton, VA right around the corner from you!!!
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  18. I agree, starting with verbal de-escalation, PO meds, or even IM with pt's agreement. I've got a pretty good line of schmoozing that's often effective. However, there are some patients, often with a combination of mental illness, substance abuse, and alcohol abuse, who are actively violent and who are either an immediate danger to themselves or others, e.g. staff, or with whom de-escalation efforts have failed where deception and/or force is required. When this occurs, rapid implementation with sufficient numbers of personnel and appropriate meds, sometimes with restraints until the meds take effect, followed by de-escalation as quickly as is safe is the most ethical approach.
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  19. Rev should quit his job as a PA to become the next Miss Cleo.
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  20. With all these threads about NPs being lightyears ahead in the political arena I'm really hoping that everyone here, especially the ones complaining, are actually contributing to AAPA's Political Action Committee. I just received a snail mail from them and, if I remember correctly, it says only 4% of AAPA members donate. That is beyond pathetic. Could the PA Forum support this cause? Maybe put a banner to encourage users to donate, IDK. The forum probably does not want any affiliation to AAPA but instead of complaining on this forum, let's do something!
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  21. Thanks! cGPA: 3.56 sGPA: 3.41 GRE: 309, writing 4.0 I did a post-bacc, however, with a GPA: 3.97 ~75 hrs volunteer, ~20 hours of shadowing, LOR: attending, manager, and professor ~7500 PCE. I was a ER Tech for 2 years, ER Nurse for 2 years, and have been a critical care nurse for 3 years.
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  22. Well...they are in Florida, a notoriously malpractice driven state...no wonder they need fresh meat! To me, Florida is for vacationing in, not for practicing in.....
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  23. Skype interview is the way to go. I personally wouldn't ask them to pay for travel for an interview, but that is more because it tells them that you are desperate for a job because you are impoverished. That being said, I wouldn't take a job without going and personally interviewing THEM. This thread is just another example of how debt sucks.....
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  24. BS. An ENT practice has plenty of money to pay a $800 round trip fare. If they expect a person to come out and interview in person, they should pay it. I’ve seen plenty of “small” practices do this. i would explain that you have no savings for this and request they do a Skype interview. If they say no, explain that you’re very interested, but it just isn’t financially possible, unless they would be kind enough, and so interested, as to help you with airfare. Otherwise, it’s just a matter of the difficult financial situation that prevents your from coming. That’s what I’d do anyways
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  25. Clayton from Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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  26. I don't want to talk about "back in the day," but with the point of helping you to feel a bit more encouraged, I will. I graduated in 1982 from the University of Kentucky. Jobs were very tough to come by. I wanted to stay in Kentucky and made contact with 124 (if I remember right) practices and not one interview was offered. In my class of 16, by 6 months after graduation, only 2 had PA jobs, and both had these jobs arranged before going to PA school. I was poor as a church mouse and would go through the lobby of dorms, looking for loose change under the cushions. I took two part-time jobs, one at Sears and one with "Manpower" (which was the bottom-dweller job place, and I met other PAs working there, and that was sad). But I had to, to buy food. So, I finally decided that I had to go out of state. I had to borrow money from a roommate (which I don't recommend, but he is still one of my closest friends after these years) to drive to Michigan for my first interview. It was a bad job at the BOP. But, I eventually got it (and it was much worse than I had expected). But I worked this terrible job for six months. Then, I started to look in Michigan and found many good jobs advertised and they all wanted to interview with me. I took a fantastic job and that launched my career after a very hard start. Mike
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  27. My name is Leanna, I am the grandma of the group at a lovely age of 57!!! I live in Lorton, VA (the Washington DC metro area). Congrats to all so far! Thanks for starting this new thread..I just found it. Is there a FB group as well? I am not on there very much, however I would join a group if anyone sets one up..I guess I could do that as well..
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  28. I believe it was just scribing in general. In our class, the only scribes we had were from EM, UC, and FM backgrounds. I think the upcoming class has scribes who worked in more specialized areas. I'd be curious to know how they compare as well.
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  29. I interviewed with UNC last year. They do have a preference for NC residents, but they certainly accept out of state applicants every year, so stay positive! They do not. The class size is only 20 students, and they will interview around 60 applicants total. The last couple of years, they held all interviews over a 3 day period in October and then sent out all decisions a week or so after that.
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  30. Do you have to complete CASPer first in order to be considered for an interview? I just got an email requesting I take the test.
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  31. I got an interview!! Who is going July 19th?
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  32. Congrats to everyone who’s received interviews!! So exciting.
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  33. I like being a PA. We seem well respected in the medical world, and the comments I've heard from other providers, including NP's and MD's/DO's seem to reflect that. We've developed a niche in the procedure and surgical world, as well as being highly valued in other fields for our high standards of education across the board, and for our adherence to the medical model. We also seem to manage a pretty high level of standardization of our education, rather than an education system that is variable in preparation, or in rotations. I see in the future less HCE prior to school, and more of us going into a short residency, which will further delineate us from our NP counterparts. I don't think the solution is piggybacking onto the NP lobby, but rather spearheading our own path, and further developing our own niche.
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  34. Every time I see a thread on some forum regarding this same misconception that these programs are PA's "attempting to become real doctors", I make a concerted effort to fight the misconception. I tell the OP that the doctoral degree is for PAs needing the doctoral diploma to compete for admin jobs or to become core faculty at PA programs, that often these positions demand PhD level degrees to be a competitive applicant. Lastly I tell them the PA profession is not lobbying state legislators to become independent, unsupervised providers unbeholden to physicians. ---but then I don't miss the opportunity to remind them what the NPs are up to. Their DNP movement (funded by the very deep pockets of the nursing lobby) has 2 goals: the first is to make all NP programs doctoral and gain complete practice autonomy in all 50 states. The second goal....which many (if not most) of us see but not enough are willing to make noise about, is the endgame goal of pushing for parity of the DNP degree with that of MD/DO degree. Trust me, that's what the DNP leadership wants. Once all the NPs are DNPs and they're all autonomous, they'll lobby the crap out of legislators, telling them they have doctoral level training, are more holistic, have NP-reviewed publications showing their outcomes in care are non-inferior to physicians, and therefore they should have the same recognition, be allowed to set up their own residencies, and be allowed admitting privileges and, once DNP-residency trained, allowed to operate on a chest just as any MD/DO CT surgeon would. AAPA and NCCPA and the PA profession needs to get its crap together. The nursing lobby is huge and they're outspending us and the results are showing. The PAs need to be very tight with the AMA/AOA and aggressively counter the nursing lobby efforts. This is, of course, just my $0.02
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  35. Hello all! I was hoping to get some additional interview resources, tips and advice people have for the PA school interview! I've stumbled upon a few resources, but any and all tips and additional resources you can provide me would be amazing. I'm hoping others can benefit from this thread as well, so I'll try and update it here with things as people add them. If there's a similar thread that currently exists I'd love to be pointed to it, I couldn't find one in my search. Thank you in advance! Books: How to "Ace" The Physician Assistant Interview - Andrew J. Rodican Physician Assistant School Interview Guide: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques to Impress Your Interviewers - Savanna Perry, PA-C The Ultimate Guide to Getting into Physician Assistant School - Andrew J. Rodican (a chapter has some interview advice) Online Resources/Blogs: ThePaPlatform.com Mock Interview Service Blog Posts Mock Interview Question Guides MyPATraining.com Mock Interview Service Blog Posts ThePALife.com Mock Interview Service Blog Posts Question Lists/Workbook Tips/Tricks/Advice: Practice!: "Practice, practice, practice! I was always told the best way to overcome interview anxiety and get over nervous ticks was to practice. I don't mean read every possible PA school interview question you can find and write down an answer and memorize it. You don't want to be rehearsed, but familiarize yourself with some of the questions asked and the nerves might subside a bit when you realize you've at least seen variations of these questions before." - whitecoat.rosegold University Offered Mock Interviews: "One thing that may be available that people don't realize is a mock interview through your university. My school offers a free mock interview current students and recent graduates through the career center. My school was on the smaller side (satellite campus for larger university), so I'm guessing that if they offer this then a lot of schools do. They have one specifically designed for pre-health students with faculty that are more knowledgeable about the process. It's quite formal from what I understand and they give feedback in the end about things to work on." - hmtpnw
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  36. I agree. I initially had a long post about it but deleted. Essentially, the question should be how does one become a GOOD provider. Lots of physicians and other types suck. The question is not a good one. Can a FM physician ever be as good as a IM? It’s all relative. What makes someone good is putting in the effort and having the right opportunities.
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  37. @mckennap Sorry, I guess I misread your first question. I haven't gotten an interview offer yet. I only received my "under review" email a few days ago, two days after I paid the fee. It sounds like several people were getting interview invites early last week, but it's been quiet since then. Has anyone else been offered an interview this week?
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  38. To make you feel better, I got an interview with 3.54 cum and 3.28 science.
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  39. I haven't heard anything yet. It's my understanding that the first round of interviews is planned for July. Good luck everyone!
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  40. Same here, good luck to everyone. First interview invite last cycle went out late July. Now we play the waiting game.
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  41. Thought I would update you all. I was placed on the alternate list before the application deadline. I received an email last week letting me know I have been awarded a scholarship! Hang in there!
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  42. Do a good job on each patient. Make them wait. Push back. Have your cv ready. Quality medicine is marketable and you will likely have to leave.
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  43. 7 years... but who is counting? Still buying Power Ball tickets.
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  44. Balance of harms, my friend. They will eventually understand that I had the right to do more harm, possibly even killing them to protect other people, and instead chose to lie, and at that point they can either forgive me or not. If they end up getting shot and dying... well, they're never going to forgive me for that. For those of you not familiar with it, "... an actual, imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury to self or others" is just a rephrasing of when homicide is justifiable in defense of self or others. It's not a light consideration, even if it can be a split-second evaluation.
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  45. At the point where a patient poses an actual, imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury to self or others, then using the least amount of force necessary to neutralize the threat. If that force can be a falsehood instead of a taser, baton, or firearm, I am ethically OK with that.
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  46. ummm didn't read the article because I don't need to lying to the patient - never
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  47. Hey guys I’m curious what yall think my chances are... science gpa >3.9 nonscience approximately 3.9 gre- 300 patient care - 1300 as an emt, 150 as pt aid
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  48. @AnneDPAApplicant Of course! I can't speak about the entire first year, since I started in May 2018 and have only completed my summer semester and recently started fall. Pretty much over the summer we were in classes all day. Summer semester has many foundational classes (ie, biochem, anatomy, physiology) to prep you for the more clinically relevant courses, but we did meet weekly all summer long to practice a full head-to-toe physical exam and by the end of the summer semester, we were all able to perform a full physical! There are also opportunities to volunteer at the GW Healing Clinic, which is a largely student-run clinic that provides primary care to the underserved population in the area. I personally didn't get a chance to do that over the summer, but am planning on volunteering this semester. Now that fall semester has started, there are a lot more opportunities to practice skills. We have classes where we're able to practice reading X-rays, reading EKGs, casting, removing foreign objects from ears/nose, etc. We also have a pre-clinical preceptorship experience coming up where we shadow a preceptor before 2nd year to get an idea of how things will be in the clinical setting. I will be shadowing an ortho PA and am super excited since I've never had any experience with ortho! In terms of the best way to retain everything we're learning, it's definitely hard and everyone has a different way to learn, understand, and retain! So my best advice to you would be to find what works for YOU and not compare yourself to what everyone else around you is doing (and also remember that your classmates will be your family for 2 years and that PA school isn't a competition between you and your classmates). Some people like making index cards and some people think that wastes too much of their study time. Some people are readers and learn and retain straight from reading the textbook (I am not that lucky). So just find what works best for you! Personally, I really like making outlines and charts and that helps me a lot. I also try my best to get some studying done after classes in the evening, so I don't feel overwhelmed over the weekends or right before an exam. They don't lie when they say it's a LOT of material, but with some hope, motivation, and caffeine, almost anything is possible! ? Let me know if you have any more questions!
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