Dondoro88 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Interesting experience when I called a local teaching hospital looking for a PA to shadow. (they have a few working in surgery specialties but since I couldn't contact them directly..I called the hospitals "education" dept) I was put through and told the person on the other side: "I'm applying to PA school and i'm a graduate of XYZ university (which runs the hospital)..I was interested in shadowing a Physician Assistant..and I wanted to know if this would be possible" (pause..) "Do you mean PHYSICIANS ASSISTANT?" "No, a Physician Assistant, I know that there are a few in cardiothoracic surgery but I don't know their names" "as far as I know we don't have any PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS..just leave me your info" blah blah Now this isn't really going to get me anywhere (leaving my info), but I was appalled by the person's attitude and have no idea who it was. I did look up job openings for PAs at the hospital and they all say physician's assistant..meh Any suggestions on how to proceed? I wasn't sure if it's appropriate to contact a PA working in a hospital directly to ask them about shadowing..especially since their info (email) isn't public Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefPA Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Phone the page operator and see if they can be paged. Calling directly is the best approach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefPA Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 By the way, the Physician's Assistant thing drives me crazy....had to correct the partners at the Ortho practice I just LEFT. They looked at me like I was crazy when I called them out on it ....a year later they are looking for a new PA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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