 What's up you guys? It's Sedona. So recently I had the opportunity to go speak at Temple University's pre-PA club. Shout out to Temple University for allowing me to come out and speak to you guys. I had an amazing time and I wanted to share that time with you all. So I hope you enjoy the video. Warm welcome to our guest speaker, Donna. She's the daughter of the PA on YouTube. PA class right now. There's a bunch of females and like five males and that's typically what you see in PA school anyways. So the males kind of have an upper hand because we want more men in the PA profession. So they typically like get into PA school. I know when I was interviewing and I saw a guy I was like, oh man I know he's getting in and he did. So I was right. So that's me, Adana, MPAM. You see that little PAC right there? Yes, that's me. About me, who am I? So gaining health care experience, there are different types of health care experience. It can be PCE or HC which is you know direct patient care experience or health care experience. So health care experience is anything in the health care field. So you can be a front desk worker at your doctor's office. You can be a security guard. I was that at a nursing home for a little while. So all of that goes under health care experience. But when it comes to patient care experience, that's what PA school is really looking for. So are you you know taking vital signs? Are you doing injections? Do you know how to start lines? So you take your entrance exam. I just did a YouTube video on this. There's a new PA entrance exam that is launching this May. It's called the PA CAT. Generally you would take the GRE. Some schools will allow you to do the MCAT but like that's quickly fading away. It's mainly the GRE and there's also another exam called the CASPER. CASPER is not really like knowledge based. It's more so like situational. So like you are a PA, your attendant asks you to like treat their girlfriend that they're having an affair with and then she goes home and all of a sudden now she dies like who's to blame for her death type of thing. So yeah you see a lot and the scribes knew like a ton of stuff. Like they knew how to treat like patients coming in with like CVAs and things. I'm like what you know like because I'm sitting up here like a Santa. I'm like well I can give you ibuprofen but you know they're like they're like they're like in it because they're in the ED right. Like I looked at certified nurse midwife and I didn't like the nursing model so I was like well what else is there and I found the PA profession and applied as many as you can you can afford. I mean it's not cheap. It's $55 a program. It's $175 for the first program and then $55 subsequent after that. So I mean that money like racks up. People spend like hundreds of dollars applying to PA programs but again like that app will might shrink your load down. So you might think like okay I'm going to just apply to all the schools in Pennsylvania because I want to stay in Pennsylvania but you may only be eligible to apply to two programs. So you apply into 12 schools and you're only eligible for two that's just a waste of $550. So I'm excited about that so you can take vacations and you know sip on some like little virgin cocktails. Um you know and you don't even have to take PTO time so like I'm excited about that. Yeah I mean you know just suck it up. Like you know like honestly like you want to be a PA right. So like you're going like this like this is like this is the easy part honestly you know because you're going to have people's lives in your hand you know depending on the type of PA that you're going to be. So at the end of the day like maybe like kind of just compartmentalize yourself so you know in your senior year if you're trying to go direct into a PA school make sure that you have all of the health care hours and the experience and everything that you need for CASPA so that as soon as CASPA opens up in April because CASPA is opening up in April so for all you seniors who are trying to get in for next year um you have to like send that application in like in May or June because you want to be ahead of the game. Did you subscribe? Okay all right and everybody in here I need to have like 50 new subscribers on YouTube and Instagram okay so so you don't say like I want to be able to different different different specialties but you say you like like the lateral movement that PA's have and that's not taboo at all like I use that all the time but you know that's I mean people know that that's what you want you want to be able to laterally move to various different specialties and you also like the time that you have with your family or the free time that you have um and it's not as stressful so that's fine to address those like most people say that in their program their personal statement so that's where you yourself now like you rank your schools right so if you have a 3.4 or 3.3 and the average which is a mean is 3.5 then you know that they're still admitting students with 3.3s and 3.4s and they're admitting students with 4.0s and 3.7s so if you look at that and you see like okay I may not be hitting the GPA but I have more hours than their average matriculated student or my personal statement is so bomb like I know I'm going to get this interview like then apply but you you rank your schools it's it's almost like a med school match so you're like all right so I have 10 schools that I can apply to this is where I fall on each of them I'm going to apply to this school first and this school last because then that way you're not losing anything you're just applying to the schools that you're better suited for earlier