How can I be building my resume to get into a PA Residency program?

[jsullivan1]

Hi! I am currently a first year PA student. Upon shadowing in surgical critical care, I fell in love with the field and want to invest my career in it. I plan on applying to PA residency programs specializing  in surgical critical care after graduation from school (August 2022). I was hoping for advice on how I can begin to build my resume for applying to residency programs. Any help is greatly appreciated:) 
 

 

[EMEDPA]

rotations in ICU would help. Find an ICU MD or PA to be your mentor.

Take acls, atls, pals, fccs 2 day courses.

get good grades.

apply to at least 5 programs. 

Best of luck! It's a great specialty. 

[kettle]

Rotations, grades and applying to a few different residencies. Think of it similar to applying for PA school. More applications and high grades definitely help

[dphy83]

As above. See if you can do your internal med rotation in critical care (medical critical care?) and certainly do at least one (if not both or however many) electives in critical care. Solid letters of recommendation from CC providers and good grades are obvious. Join SCCM. ATLS and FCCS would help but may not be feasible for a broke student.