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Medgeeks Clinical Review Podcast

PA Boards 91: Your career doesn't define you!

Medgeeks Clinical Review Podcast

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Physician, Pance, Health & Fitness, Review, Family, Education, Medicine, Assistant, Board, Podcast

4.7989 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2016

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This episode is based on the large numbers of emails I get regarding setbacks in medicine (both as a student and clinician).

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0:00.0

Hey what's going on guys and welcome to episode 91 of the Physician

0:05.1

assistant boards.com podcast. Today's topic is really going to be about your

0:10.7

career in medicine and specifically I want to talk about how many of us

0:16.8

attach our identity to our career especially in medicine this is especially true in those who pursue a life in medicine.

0:25.6

What do I mean by making our career our identity?

0:28.9

So I feel that especially in medicine because it's so difficult to get to where you want to be

0:33.8

because of all the studying, because of the rotations, the long hours, the sleepless nights, the sacrifice

0:38.8

that needs to go in to any field in medicine, whether it's nursing,

0:42.5

whether it's PA, nurse practitioner, medical students,

0:45.7

it doesn't matter.

0:46.4

You have to put in countless hours

0:48.5

in order to be able to pass your exams,

0:51.0

to be able to succeed in rotations to graduate to pass the boards and

0:56.0

finally get into clinical practice. Now especially in medicine when we go from

1:01.5

undergrad into our first semester in school.

1:05.4

It doesn't matter which schooling you're a part of, it's the same in the sense that it's a huge

1:10.6

transition.

1:11.8

Now specifically in PA school like I said before I remember

1:15.4

getting my first F. So all through undergrad I had really really good grades I had

1:21.2

a stellar GPA and then come

1:23.1

P. A school my first semester I studied the exact same way that I

1:26.8

studied beforehand and guess what I failed. I received my exam and

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