Beauty of the PA profession
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2018
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Today, I want to share why I love being a PA. Specifically, an emergency medicine physician assistant. First off, I love the fact you can practice in a specific field for a given duration, and later transition to another down the road.
As nice as this is for most, I don't see myself doing this. Reason being is I have such a love for emergency medicine! With that said, I do see myself working in trauma to hone my schools further.
I recently switched hospitals, where I've been allowed to handle the more complicated patients (codes, intubations, etc). And let me tell you - I have learned a ton!
I hope you enjoy this inside loo as to why I love being an emergency medicine physician assistant.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys? So I wanted to talk to you guys today from the emergency room because I recently just changed jobs and for those of you who don't know I've been working at a rural emergency room for the past two years and loved every minute of it. |
| 0:15.0 | Took so much away from that and I saw an opportunity recently to work at a larger facility |
| 0:22.0 | and I had to take it. So I wanted to talk about the beauty |
| 0:26.9 | of the PA profession today and why it's so wonderful that we have these opportunities as PAs. |
| 0:35.0 | So I love being a PA not only because I love working in a team environment, |
| 0:41.0 | taking care of patients, |
| 0:42.6 | and thinking critically. |
| 0:43.7 | But I also love that if you're working |
| 0:45.9 | as a physician assistant in a family practice, |
| 0:49.0 | OBGYN, pulmonology, |
| 0:51.0 | endocrinology, you name it, whatever field of medicine that you're working in, |
| 0:55.1 | I love the fact that you can work in that field for two years, three years, six months, |
| 1:00.4 | whatever duration of time that you want to work in that field for and then go into another field. |
| 1:07.0 | So while I stayed in the same field of medicine, because I love emergency medicine, |
| 1:12.0 | I got to work into a new environment. I'm working at a larger facility. |
| 1:17.0 | The attending physicians here are absolutely spectacular. |
| 1:21.0 | Some are even double-boarded in pediatrics and emergency medicine, internal medicine, and emergency medicine, and then we even have someone that I consider triple-boarded. |
| 1:31.0 | He's internal medicine, emergency medicine, and he's a lawyer. |
| 1:35.9 | So changing the location of my practice so far has been a good career move. |
| 1:44.5 | Working with different attendings |
| 1:46.7 | has already taught me a incredible amount |
| 1:50.6 | in just two weeks out working on my new job. |
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