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🗓️ 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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