170: PA Turned MD Talks About Why He Made the Switch
The Premed Years
Ryan Gray
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2016
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Brad is a former PA, who is now a first year medical student. Hear him talk about the difference between a PA and an MD and why he's changing careers now.
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| 0:49.8 | The pre-made year Session Number 170. |
| 0:54.0 | Hello and welcome to the Prem-med years where we believe that collaboration, not |
| 1:06.1 | competition, is key to your pre-med success. I am your host Dr. Ryan Gray and |
| 1:11.1 | in this podcast we share with you stories, encouragement, and |
| 1:14.8 | information that you need to know to help guide you on your path to becoming a |
| 1:19.8 | physician. This week's podcast is a great one with a non-traditional student who is changing careers |
| 1:30.0 | coming from the PA world and now is a first year medical student. |
| 1:36.6 | And you'll hear me at one point, I forgot that he was just in medical school and assumed he was a practicing physician but he is in medical |
| 1:46.9 | school and this is Brad and Brad has an amazing story of his pre-med journey and why he decided to go the PA route and what |
| 1:57.7 | ultimately made him decide to go back and apply to medical school. |
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