I Sucked at Family Practice (Physician Assistant)!

Medgeeks with Andrew Reid

Medgeeks

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0	What's going on everybody and I'm going to start this video off by saying that I sucked at family practice?
0:08.1	I'm going to start this video off by saying that when I first started, when I first graduated,
0:12.2	everything was complicated, everything was complicated everything was
0:15.1	overwhelming I didn't know what I was doing but this this feeling that I had
0:20.5	is normal and the reason why I bring this feeling up about being a new
0:25.0	graduate and family practice is because I received an email and this email is what I'm
0:29.6	going to be addressing in today's video and this comes from a recent graduate, a semi-
0:35.0	recent graduate, family practice physician assistant. So let's get
0:39.1	into her question. And she says, I graduated three months ago and I'm currently working in family practice.
0:45.3	I feel like I don't know anything and I find myself constantly having to look things up.
0:50.3	Charting is also time consuming and I always seem to be behind on seeing patients.
0:55.2	I'm starting to think I don't really have what it takes and wonder if I may have made a
1:00.7	mistake going into this field.
1:03.5	Does it ever get better?
1:04.9	Is this feeling normal?
1:07.8	And yes, it's very normal, right? I've had multiple emails like this. I think I probably addressed a question, a couple questions very similar to this. But here's the thing.
1:20.8	When you were in school as a PA, the school is there for one thing.
1:26.8	The school is there to get you ready to prep for your boards.
1:29.7	They want you to pass the board exams.
1:32.3	Therefore, their main focus is to get a 100% first time pass
1:37.4	rate on the pants. That's their number one focus, because if they can get this incredibly high pass rate year after year
1:44.8	this makes their university this makes their program that much better when
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