Hello and

welcome to the Physician Assistant Exam Review Podcast.

My name is Brian Wallace. I'm your host and in today's session

we're going to cover the most important topic we could cover

in order for you to pass your exam. Thank you so much for joining me here today. For those of you listening for the very first time, I am a practicing physician

assistant and I need to research before the end of 2013 like a lot of you out there on who I've

been talking to. This is sort of a daunting task and a big deal obviously in a lot of our lives, but here

at Physician Assistant Exam Review, what we normally do is cover a brief topic each and every

week to avoid having to cram everything in at the end.

And this week we're going to change things up a little bit.

We're going to do things just a little bit differently.

I'm not going to cover a specific review topic.

We're right between, we just finished up dermatology.

I was thinking about doing a review of dermatology

The whole thing straight through in like half an hour

But but I couldn't bring myself to do any more derm. I was just I was tired of it and I assume a lot of you were too. So I've

decided to finish up the Durham session with the one we did last time and next

session we will move on to eye's ears, nose and throat. I've already

started some work on that and that'll be what we cover next week. But what I wanted to do in this in-between period was cover, like I said in the beginning, what I think is probably the most important topic we could cover in order for you to pass your exam

And that is just the mindset of passing getting over that fear that we all have in approaching this project in

approaching this exam. So many of us are very nervous. We have all sorts of

issues when it comes to test taking in general, but compound that with the fact

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