PA Boards 96: Interview with Amy (PA school grad)

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

4.7 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Today we're going to be speaking with Amy. She's a recent graduate from the University of South Alabama PA program. She'll give her advice on what to do and what not to do for those going through didactic and clinical year. She also touches on how she personally overcame a tragic event that happened 3 months prior to graduating - and the mindset she adopted to over come it.

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0:00.0	Hey what's going on guys and welcome to episode 96 of the Physician
0:04.3	assistant boards dot-com podcast today's podcast is going to be an interview from
0:09.1	Amy who just recently graduated from the University of South Alabama Physician Assistance School.
0:15.3	So she's kind of in the interim here.
0:17.1	She's kind of in between being a graduate, passing her boards, and waiting to start her first position in internal medicine.
0:24.9	So she just went through didactic, she just went through clinical, so she's going to be able to touch
0:29.4	and she's going to give her perspective on what she went through, what she learned, and she's going to offer her advice
0:35.3	for those of you who are currently going through schooling or thinking about going into PA school.
0:39.5	She gives some really good insight as to what works.
0:41.9	She gives us the worst advice that was ever
0:43.8	given to her and what you should not do. And she also touches on something
0:49.4	that happened right before graduation and it's a very traumatic event it's probably one of the most
0:55.2	traumatic it's probably one of the worst things that could happen to you know in a
0:58.8	person's life and it happened three months before graduation so she talks about her mindset and
1:04.6	how she was able to overcome that and get through and continue on to her path to
1:09.8	becoming a PA. So have a listen. This is my interview with Amy and like I said she's a recent graduate from the University of South Alabama Physician Assistant School. So here we go.
1:23.0	Hi. we go. Hi. Hi.
1:24.0	Hi.
1:25.0	Yes.
1:26.0	Hi. How are you?
1:27.0	Good.
1:28.0	Nice to meet you. Sand here.
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