 Attention pre-PA students and PA students! I am excited to announce that Get That C University will be launching this coming Sunday, October 11th. Get That C University is the coolest place to help you get into PA school and through PA school. So go right now to GetThatCUniversity.com and sign up so you can be the first to know when the site launches. And in celebration of the launch of Get That C University, I will be coming out with a brand new video every day this week answering all of your questions. So leave a comment in the comment section below and tune in to see if your comment is one of those that I answer. Go on over to Get That C University right now and sign up so we can help you Get That C. What's up you guys? Sit down and welcome back to my channel. So welcome again to the official celebratory launch week of Get That C University. And in celebration of that launch, you know that I'm coming to you every day this week just with a new video talking about various different questions that you guys may have and I'm answering them for you all as I go along. So if you haven't already done so leave a question in the comment section and see if I get to your question in either one of these Q&As or Q&A that I do via my IG stories. All right so I have a few questions that I wanted to answer for you all. Someone wrote a couple and so I'm going to try to get through as many as I can. So this set is from Benafia Sego. She says hello Adana. I have a couple of questions. Are there PA schools offering a dual degree in MPH, MPA? I'm currently in an MPH program in maternal and child health and it's two years. However I'm eager to start PA schools so I could start being a service in the hospital especially children that need help. Okay so the first question for me to answer is do they are there PA programs that have dual programs, dual MPHs and PA programs and the answer is yes. There are several schools that offer a dual degree. You will complete that degree typically in three years rather than the two years that usually takes for PA school and I believe they tend to start off with the MPH first and then you go into like your didactics and stuff for PA school because just like when you're doing like an MD and like an MD PhD program you know they want to know that you're in this for the long haul so you start off with like a couple years of MD and then you go right in the middle for your PhD so you cannot like get out of the program because if you do you would have wasted some of your time like on the med school side and then once you've completed your PhD then you complete your med the rest of your med school requirements and so I think that's kind of how they like kind of front load it but again I mean you just have to look at the programs there's over 291 PA schools and so there are several of them that are actually offering dual degrees you just have to search for them. All right the second question is I shadowed a doctor when I was in high school and a bit when I was in uni can I count my high school hours as clinical hours I got a job after college as a behavioral tech in a mental health slash rehab clinic and I was passing medication can that also count as my clinical hours thank you. All right so like I tend not to answer these questions like you know matter of factly because again each program is specific to their own requirements so I'm going to do my best to answer this question but yet also like leave it open for you to ensure that you're going ahead and you're doing the research and you're asking the schools that you're really interested in hey will you accept these hours so first question or first part of that second question and I know you said you had a couple questions but that question number two was like a 2a2b so I'm just saying but for that first part of question two you asked about shadowing a doctor and can you use those hours that you shadowed the doctor in high school so typically there is not really a cap on the amount of like the time for your shadowing hours to have occurred there may be some programs that would have wanted it within the last five to 10 years I mean that doesn't necessarily mean that all programs are like that I've never really seen a cap placed on hours but you want to make sure that the schools that you're applying to don't have that so all that all you have to do is go ahead and look at their requirements look at what they're stating on their actual website if it's not stated there and you're still confused and you still like are unsure and you don't want to really make any mistakes on your application just go ahead and contact the program that's simple all right and then for question 2b girl you said you got a job after college and you were passing out meds at a behavioral like institution and so yeah as a tech a lot of schools will accept those hours a front of mind was a tech adam and still like a mental ward and they counted their hours towards their direct patient care experience hours so I think you just really have to talk to the programs and see hey like these are the these are the descriptions of what I did on my job will this suffice and I mean honestly I really don't see that being an issue because as a cna you're kind of there and you're like just doing you know adls with the patient as a gna you're passing out medication and those hours count towards patient care experience hours for particular programs for some programs it doesn't see again you just have to make sure that the program that you're really interested in applying to accept those accepts those hours so this is from tulip pee and they're asking they say hi adana I am a recent grad and I've wanted to be work in clinical research using my degree for a while however I do research full time for however if I do research for full time for two years my pce hours will increase very slowly should I get a job with full time pce to increase my hours faster and not do research at all now let me just say this okay so like I am a big believer in doing what you want to do okay obviously within reason you know if you want to do research if that's where your passion is then do it like don't skip like especially if you're young you know if you're young and you have a time to do this then experience every single thing that you could possibly experience because who knows maybe after you've worked and you've gotten all these health care experience hours and these patient care experience hours and then you get into PA school and stuff you won't have time to do research you know once you're a PA so just to get that out of the way if you have the opportunity to do it right now then do it now if you have in your mind like hey you know I want to get into PA school by the year 2022 or 2021 then obviously you have to take a step back and look at this realistically and say okay now is this realistic for me to not do um not do uh my health care experience my patient care experience hours now and like kind of tack on to my research and make bolster that aspect of my application or is it better for me to do the patient care experience when it comes to PA school direct patient care experience is important this is not like med school where research is you know really important and you're volunteering and your grades are important in terms of like gpn stuff PA school loves gpas and volunteering but pce is king okay so the more hours that you have the better your application looks so that's just something that you should be able to take into consideration when you're trying to make this decision on if you should pass up on that opportunity or work um and do the research for two years okay so this question is from Amy disposario and she says I heard from someone that being a pediatric PA is really depressing because you have to see children in pain all the time do you have a more holistic view of what it's like to be a pediatric PA if GTCU has any pediatricians do you know if one of them is going to be talking this week I love your positive videos okay so I don't know what you mean by talking this week so like GTCU is a masterclass based platform so if there is a pediatric PA or pediatrician that is on the site their video will be up for you to view at your leisure um so that is how this platform is based okay now with we are going to also be having on the platform live events where you will be able to communicate and be in contact with individuals and professionals in their respective fields so keep that in mind when you're thinking about like you know all over a different live conferences and you know asking questions to the professionals in the fields that you're interested in with respect to the first part of your statement on like being a pediatric pediatric PA is depressing so like on my pediatric rotation I had an amazing time like I was excited because every day like I would see these kids and they were like were just great you know kids are wonderful um and they always put a smile on my face they would say like the craziest things and you just couldn't help but like look at their little faces and be like okay like I will be okay now yes there were moments where there were kids that were really sick and I felt great even in that moment because I was able to comfort them for the most part you know or bring some type of uh awareness of why they were feeling sick and that helped alleviate some of the stress from their family and their mom and you know ultimately like kids feed off of that and so they felt a little bit better at the end of the visit as well so that's just my two cents from a student standpoint I did eight weeks in peds and I loved every minute of it okay now with respect to having um a pediatrician or a pediatric PA on the site I definitely plan on having those individuals for virtual shadowing so you can see exactly what it's like to be a pediatric PA and then again just kind of introducing them and involving them in some of our virtual conferences so go ahead right now sign up at GTCU um forget that see so you go to get that see university dot com right now sign up so that you can see exactly when the site launches it will be launching this Sunday October 11th and so once it launches you can sign up and do all the various different things that you need to do and see all the different master classes and help yourself move further along the path to getting that see all right thank you guys so much for these questions leave some more questions for me you guys you know we have what like two or some more days in this whole like seven day celebration launch to GTCU so leave some questions for me so that I can answer them for you and we can have a great time together thank you guys so much for watching please go ahead and like this video subscribe and follow me on instagram at adana the PA I will talk to you guys next time