 What's up you guys? It's Sadana. So my voice is a little gone because I'm a little bit under the weather, but I'm getting better. Nonetheless, I'm really excited because it is premiere day. If you guys didn't know, my husband is like producer, actor, director, like he's a jack of all trades, you guys. You know, the man is the man is doing the thing. But honestly, today is the red carpet premiere of his newest film. It's called Hope Lives and I'm really excited because I'm going to be live streaming tonight from the event. So if you guys go to my Instagram, you will see it there. And then stay tuned. You guys like throughout the weeks because I will let you know when the film actually like comes out for the masses to see. So stay tuned to that. So I've been doing a lot of these kind of prepay club meetings. I would say where I'm talking to you all about being a PA and like what I do is a PA. And I've come to realize that, you know, not everybody knows like the similarities or differences between a PA and like other things. Obviously, like specifically, namely a physician, but there are so many other professions out there that we collaborate and work with in tandem on a consistent basis. So I wanted to kind of start this new series for you guys. Okay. And it's going to be called this or that. I don't want to do the PA versus XYZ because this is not like a battle. We're not fighting here. You guys, you know, I just want to show you guys and highlight some of the similarities and differences between a PA and whatever, you know, between a PA and whatever profession it is that you may be wanting to get into in healthcare. So let's get into this or that PA and physician. All right. What's up you guys down and welcome back to my channel. So this or that. Okay. What are you going to choose? Right? That is what we're going to be doing. We're going to be looking at the similarities and differences between being a PA and a physician. So if you guys are coming to my channel, you know me either from my reaction days or, you know, me as being a PA and so I wanted to kind of highlight some of those similarities and differences that I've seen as I've kind of gone through a PA school and then now a practicing PA between a physician and a PA because there's just something that you guys kind of have to look at when you're figuring out like what career do I want to go into. So let's get into it. The first things first, right? I want to talk about the similarities and differences between the schooling. You still have to go to school. That's like the number one similarity. You have to go to school to become a PA and you have to go to school to become a physician. However, after that, like the similarities kind of shift a little bit until you get into your actual postgraduate schooling. Okay, for a PA, you have to go to undergrad and get an undergraduate. You have to go get a bachelor's degree and undergraduate degree. And it's the same thing with becoming a physician. That's the first step. You got to go and get your bachelor's degree in something for PA, right? In anything. It can be in music, which is the beauty of becoming a PA because you can kind of hone and foster and nurture some of those interests that you have while also like cherry picking classes that you need to get into PA school. Now, for a med school and, you know, to get into med school and become a physician, it's quite different. You really have to stay on the path. I would say of your sciences, your pre-med track that will give you all of the science courses for your medical pursuit of your medical degree. Now, after you've gotten your undergraduate degree, you're going to go and you're going to go to either med school or PA school. There are similarities in terms of the material that you're learning, but when it comes to the years of education for PA school, you can do like, I would say a max of like four years because depending on whether or not you go to a three year PA program and then decide to do a doctorate of like medical science, then that would be four years. Now, the standard like time that people go to PA school is for two years. Okay. Now, when you're talking about medical school, you're going to school for four years. That's, that's just it. You're going to school for four years. So obviously those are some differences there. Two years to your four years, right? This or that after you've gone to medical school for your four years, then you still have to go into a residency, which can be anywhere from like two to five years and then possibly a fellowship, which can be another two years for PA programs that is like after you've gone to PA school. That's pretty much it. You can go and continue your medical education as much as you want. You can get a PhD in something. You can go get a master's in something else, but ultimately you are literally just in school for two years. And again, the differences between that education is after going to med school, you are a doctor of medicine, right? You've completed your four year degree, your medical degree and you are now doctor so-and-so. After you finished your PA degree, you are not doctor Adana. You are Adana, the PA, right? But here's what kind of, here's the thing, right? So another similarity or difference is now what do you do after that? After that, I said you have to continue your education to actually be able to practice as a medical doctor. But as a PA, you do not have to continue any education. You can go right out of PA school like many of us do and start practicing. So let's get into the similarities and differences of practicing. With that being said, what can a PA do? So a PA can see patients, we can diagnose patients, we can prescribe patients with medications from the diagnosis that we've come up with. And then we can carry patients on our load depending on if you are an outpatient versus inpatient PA. Now, as a medical doctor, what can you do? You can see patients, you can diagnose patients, you can prescribe medications and you can carry patients on your load. All right, so lots of similarities in that front. Where you see some differences is the full scope of the practice in what we're able to do. So if you are a surgeon, you are in the surgical sub-specialties as a physician versus a physician assistant, your similarities and differences are quite, are highlighted a little bit more once you go to the operating room. So as a surgical sub-specialty or surgical specialty PA, you're not planning the surgery, you're not directing the surgery, you're not like, you're not running the show in the OR. However, as a surgeon you are, you plan that surgery out, you run the show, you tell people what to do because you've gone to school for like 11 years to be able to do so. Okay, so differences in that front. Now, let's look at the pay. So I know you guys want to hear like the differences between the pay of a PA versus a physician. Now physicians can make boo boo bucks and they're like the, I would say the like lowest paid physician is making like in the high low six figures in terms of like the high low six figures. Okay. So like $200,000 I would say is like a good starting point. But the starting point for a PA is like a hundred thousand dollars we're in that range. And you know, depending on if you're a new grad and they're just trying to kind of like low ball you, you might be even offering $80,000, $90,000 a year. So there is a stark difference there. I mean, but granted again, you've gone to school for so much more time. Okay, so you deserve, you deserve those flowers and that money that you're getting with respect to money though, the education in terms of how much you will own. Oh, if you take out a loan is also different. So yes, the similarity is you may owe money. You may be owing money from your loan. The difference is that you're going to be owing a lot more money as a physician than you would as a PA. So standard like again across the board, like a lot of physicians are owing hundreds of thousands of dollars hundreds. Okay, like 200,000 300,000 a PA may owe $100,000 the majority of PA programs are in your average, I would say range of like 60 70,000 dollars. Okay, from your lowest of like your $20,000 for those schools that are kind of attached to community college just versus your highest private PA programs that are in like the hundred and seventy thousand dollar range. You when you combine that your average would be around like 70 or $80,000. Okay, so not even touching that benchmark of a hundred thousand dollars, but that is again some similarities and differences. We've been diagrammed this for you guys. So like the diagram of the similarities and differences between a PA and a physician and there you have it. Okay, so hopefully this was like laid out super easy for you. If you have any other questions about the similarities and differences, leave them in the comment section below. I will do my best to answer them. Again, I'm going to be doing this with other professions. We're going to go back to elementary school. I don't know. Are we still learning Vindagrams in elementary school? Maybe whatever I digress. We're going to be then diagramming this. Okay, we're going to give you the this or the that the similarities and the differences between the various different professions that work in healthcare and hopefully you guys can make the best well informed decision on which career you want to go into. 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