 can i easily transition into med school like is there a bridge program where i don't have to go to med school for four years what's up you guys it's adana welcome back to my channel thank you guys so much for joining me for this video today i'm gonna be talking about can i go to med school after pa school um and i'm gonna be giving you my my take on this as adana the pa student okay all right um if you haven't already done so go ahead and do me a favor right now hit that little bell on the top of your screen that notification bell and subscribe to my channel so that you can know exactly when i post a new video and follow me on instagram at adana the pa all right let's get into this question so i saw this on one of my comments i was really excited to answer it um because i thought it was very you know it was very astute of a question i guess you know i'm sure some people are thinking well i want to be a doctor but um you know i don't know if i want to spend all that time in medical school and then some are just like oh yeah i kind of wanted to be a doctor but i think pa school is easier because it's only two years so that's kind of what this question is all encompassing and that's kind of what i'm gonna try to unpackage for you guys um and and answer it so yes you can go to medical school after going to pa school um because you can go to medical school after going to any school really and truly right you can become a physician after being a pharmacist or a nurse or you know a chef um you know depending on the courses that you've taken do you have a bachelor's degree um have you taken your m cat have you done well on your m cat um do you have shadowing and volunteering experience all of those things um prepare you for applying to medical school and and going through that whole m cas system right so short answer yes absolutely now i don't know if that's necessarily a question that you want to answer or if the question is more so can i easily transition into medical school like is there a bridge program where i don't have to go to med school for four years and i can just go to med school for two years because they've done two years of pa school and so for for at the moment there is not a two-year medical school pa to md bridge program i've read that there are some schools that are trying to propose that there is one school that i know of for sure that has a pa to do um which is a doctorate of osteopathic medicine um which you are a doctor you just uh kind of do a different teaching model but that school uh has a bridge program so a pa to do do program where you will go to medical school or do school osteopathic school for three years instead of the four years of medical school so you take off one year of your life um in medical school but you obviously will still have to go through your three years of medical school and then go through residency which is anywhere from three plus years two plus years depending on the specialty that you're going into so you're still going to be a student for at least let's say five to six more years at minimum but you're gonna have that d.o. or that uh md depending on the school after your name uh so that is an option for you that's what you want um for me that was not necessarily something that i wanted to do i didn't want to go into medical school for all the reasons i've listed before family time all of that right but if you for you if you feel that pa is just not enough you want to i guess have more autonomy you want to just do more by opening a practice and all these other different things that pa's can't do solely on their own at the moment then that might be a better option for you if you're willing to kind of like take the time to do so because it's not going to be a quick process and usually bridge programs are supposed to be quick but to me you've already spent two years in pa school and then now you're going to go to med school for four more years well three more years so it's really like you should have just gone to med school for the four years instead of trying to go to school for five years and that's just my take on it you know because i'm all about the time that it's taking me to get through something because i want to be out practicing seeing patients and being like efficient in what i do i do know that nyu has an an accelerated three year program as well so if you want to do that it's not necessarily a bridge program like the lake airy college of osteopathic medicine school that's the school that has the pa to deal bridge program but it's three years which is just the same amount as lake airy's medical school and then i just recently heard not too long ago in the news that nyu's also offering free tuition to anyone that gets into their medical school so that might be a good option for some of you if that's what you really want to do you know me i am all like pro pa let's push out more pa's in the world but the pa profession may not be for everyone so for those of you who are teeter-tottering between pa or md or can i go after get becoming a pa get some experience whatever the case maybe these are just some options available to you and that is what this channel is all about and that's what i want to do i want to provide you with as much information as possible while still promoting the pa profession go pa that answers your question or you know the question that maybe you were trying to ask i just want to make sure that you continue to do your research go out there google let google like you know accelerated med programs pa to md bridge programs pa to md or do um schools to see what is um out there for you because there are options also for online medical schools which is pretty odd to me that a medical school would be online but there are options for that so um you just have to do your research and kind of figure out what works best for you and um in your life so i hope this was helpful if you have any more questions leave that in the comment section below again that school is lake eerie college of osteopathic medicine that is the pa to do bridge program and then nyu's um accelerated three-year program if you are thinking about you know going from a pa to an md if you already have your pa you're certified as a pa and you want to kind of bridge into an md program those are some options available to you i know there are some other online programs so just kind of look look into them and see what works for you thank you guys so much for watching hope you guys like this video go ahead and give me some thumbs up if you did and follow me on instagram at adana the pa i will talk to you guys next time bye