Hey what's going on guys and welcome to episode 93 of the Physician

assistant boards.com podcast. This episode is going to be a little bit different

in this episode we're going to be interviewing a medical graduate. We're going to be

speaking to Mario who got her

medical degree from Pakistan, did her internship in Saudi Arabia, and now she's actually

moving to Canada where she's trying to match for an internal medicine

residency. She's only 25 years old. So if you are somebody who's listening from

the United States, which most of her audience is from, then you might, you not know. But the way the medical system is

ran pretty much everywhere outside of the United States is right after high

school or high school equivalent, then you go into your medical school education.

So unlike the United States where we do our undergraduate degree, our bachelor's degree, graduate at 22, 23, then we apply for medical school.

We skip, or the rest of the world, for example, skips that part.

And my mom did something very similar.

My mom was a medical doctor from Mexico. So very

similarly at 18 years old she was going through medical school at 22 she graduated and if

you really take that in for a second, that's extremely different, right?

At 22 years old, if I think back as to where I was mentally, maturity-wise, it's completely different and at that point you're already

expected to be on your own and take care of patients. So anyway we're going to be

speaking to Maria at the very end of this interview she gives some great

advice for those students who are either for medical of this

she gives some great advice for those students who are either four medical

graduates and or those who are going through the process

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