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Medgeeks with Andrew Reid

PA Boards 112: Advice for a new graduate

Medgeeks with Andrew Reid

Medgeeks

Education, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.8997 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Did you recently graduate or start clinicals? If so - then I made this for you :) Here's my 2 cents for those of you who are now officially on your own...

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0:00.0

What's up guys? So this is going to be the first video, the first of many videos

0:06.6

episode number one really of this new format we're going to be answering questions.

0:10.5

I'm going to be discussing various topics and the plan is to do this every single day,

0:14.5

Monday through Friday, taking the weekends off because I don't know if I can manage going seven days a week.

0:20.7

But we're going to do this experiment for one month.

0:23.0

I know I've received a lot of emails from you guys.

0:24.9

I'm going to put my email down here.

0:26.6

It's Andrew at physician assistant boards.com.

0:29.1

I know there's been a lot of emails that I haven't really replied to,

0:32.3

and that's because I've been saving

0:33.9

those so that I can reply here on this YouTube video for those of you listening to

0:37.8

the podcast you're gonna hear the answers obviously on the podcast I don't know like

0:41.2

I said how many I plan to stream but I plan to do a few of those a week for sure.

0:46.4

So today we're going to be answering one question just to kind of kick this off and set the tone and

0:50.9

like I said if you guys have questions at all if you guys want anything answered

0:54.2

you know we're gonna be playing around with this I do plan on doing maybe two or three

0:57.8

questions kind of quick format I was thinking maybe doing a couple of minutes per

1:01.5

question that where we can get different topics, different

1:04.7

views, different opinions, different things going within one short clip since we're going to be doing

1:09.4

this multiple times a week.

1:12.2

So we're going to get into the first question and here's what she said. I'm going to read this off to you guys because I don't remember it by memory. So she says, hey Andrew, hope you're doing well. I recently just started training for my first job as a PA in urgent care, and I was wondering if you have any tips or advice for PAs who are practicing for the first time. The transition from being a student to being a clinician

1:35.2

and making those decisions is a scary one. Yes it is right. So there's a couple of

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