rlp14 Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Couldn't find an author, but its does summarize some good points. Could be helpful for those deciding on whether or not to do one. Anyone agree or disagree with this paper? http://www.paeaonline.org/index.php?ht=a/GetDocumentAction/i/134634 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted May 6, 2012 Moderator Share Posted May 6, 2012 I think this is a few years old. I agree with most of the pros/cons but this statement is blatantly wrong: "Therefore, it is plausible to state that physician assistant residents experience a work environment similar to what is found in a post-graduate PA’s first clinical year of practice. " the advantage of a residency is that you do TONS of procedures under supervision that you would likely not be allowed to do any other way. most residents do more high end procedures in their residency year than the avg pa does in 10+ years. a regular job is about "moving the meat". a residency is about structured learning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator True Anomaly Posted May 6, 2012 Moderator Share Posted May 6, 2012 Actually, it appears it was written very recently- the paper directly quotes statistics and individual interviews from 2011. That being said, I agree the above statement you highlighted, E, is poorly chosen. Overall, this paper confuses me- it seems to come from PAEA based on the website address, but quite honestly it reads like a PA student who is fulfilling their master's degree requirement by doing a research paper. There are several instances of stating the same thing in two sucessive sentences, and there are areas of poor word choice. I also don't know if this is supposed to be a purely scientific paper, or an opinion piece, or a hybrid of the two? The author (or authors) interject a lot of opinion and speculation. There are also some factual errors- PA residencies are actually not a new idea, as they have been around in one form or fashion since the 1970's- it's only recently that they have exploded in popularity. The paper basically says what we already know, and what has been stated on this site multiple times. There are positives and negatives of a residency, but I feel they could have been flushed out better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator LT_Oneal_PAC Posted May 7, 2012 Moderator Share Posted May 7, 2012 Are residencies as competitive as they say? I know my chances are better than 3% because not everyone applies for a residency, but I was hoping to only apply to say three and get in, instead of it being like applying for PA school all over again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator True Anomaly Posted May 7, 2012 Moderator Share Posted May 7, 2012 Are residencies as competitive as they say? I know my chances are better than 3% because not everyone applies for a residency, but I was hoping to only apply to say three and get in, instead of it being like applying for PA school all over again... It's so variable, and there's not really any good data (that I'm aware of) that shows number applied vs number interviewed vs number accepted. The model for residency application is kind of an offshoot of PA school admissions, but obviously on a much smaller scale due to the numbers. At the program that I'm involved with and also graduated from, this year we interviewed somewhere like 13 candidates and accepted 2, and I honestly have no idea how many applied. My only model for comparison is my own PA school, which during my year of acceptance interviewed 125 and accepted 32. So percentage-wise, it's 15% for the residency vs 25% for the PA school, but this is obviously just anecdotal evidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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