What's going on everybody? Happy Monday. Now today's going to be a Q&A, today's going to be answering a question.

Now, if you are a new graduated, a newly graduated physician assistant, a newly graduated clinician, nurse

practitioner, whatever the case may be, or maybe you graduated, however you don't feel

that the schooling prepared you adequately for clinical practice,

then I feel that this is going to be very relatable. I feel like this is going to help you a lot.

So let's get into the reader's question and then I'll give my two cents as to how I feel like maybe

you should approach it or I'll give my advice and as always you know this is

always this is a one person's advice this is one person's take on the matter

because I give my advice. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's 100% and it doesn't necessarily mean that it's the correct advice for you.

Hopefully what you're doing with these videos, with these podcasts, is you're taking my advice,

you're taking the things that work for you and you're discarding the rest, right?

So let's get into the question and then I'll give my two cents. She says, hi Andrew, I recently

signed up to your newsletter. I'm a fairly limited experience to a physician

assistant. Now here's my pickle. I graduated miraculously from PA school, barely scraping by and barely scraped by with my boards.

I subsequently worked a sit and germ before they felt I didn't know enough and then briefly

in primary care addiction. With a doctor whose focus was the

addiction side rather than the primary care. I left that job because of a robbery

after six months and I'm now working for an infectious disease specialist who's great.

But we only interact for about an hour or a half an hour in the total day.

He said I need to learn the basics.

Now I don't disagree with him, especially with my

weak performance as a student. I always did fine in rotations and interviews. I just

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