 All right, what's up you guys? I'm just kind of getting this thing all set up on my channel. So just bear with me a little bit as I kind of just work this thing out. Other than that, I hope everybody is doing well and I hope you guys are getting good interviews and acceptances and things like that. I have quite a few students that have come back to me and said that they've gotten accepted into various different programs and so I'm really, really happy for them. So yeah, I hope you guys are doing well but we're gonna be talking about University of Texas, Southwestern, more specifically, we're gonna be looking at their PA program and all of the things needed to essentially kind of get accepted into their program. We're just kind of the prerequisite requirements. So I'm gonna go to their website and then we can get started. This is always up on my channel, obviously after the live stream. So if you're watching the rebroadcast, welcome. Go ahead and like and subscribe that to my channel and like the video and make a comment for the next school that you wanna see after. But if you're watching it live with me, great. Happy to have you here. Let me just pull up the program. Okay, so I'm gonna share my screen with you guys so you can see it and we can get started. So this is University of Texas, Southwestern and when I did like a quick little Google search on schools that are like the top schools in Texas, I don't know if this is accurate. I don't know if you like who the governing body of who the top schools in Texas are, but it did show this school is the number two school in Texas. And so obviously, you can take that with a grain of salt but one of the schools in Texas, Texas has quite a few programs. And so if you're interested in staying in Texas, let's say you're from Texas or you wanna go to school in Texas, I think this is for you. So it is University of Texas, Southwestern, Medical Centers, the School of Health Professions. I think that that's good to know when you're going into the program. I always go to the first page first to kinda look at if we can find anything on the mission or the goal of the school. So if you're interested in any program, that's for sure one of the things that you absolutely need to go to and look at just so that you have an awareness of what the school stands for. And if you can actually, you know, like seamlessly align with their goals. Here, let's go to, let's start off a little bit different. Let's just go quickly to their faculty. So they don't have any, let me see if I can click on them, see if there's pictures. Oh, okay. So let's go back. So the department chair is Temple Howell Stampley. She is an MD. This is interesting. I kind of, I don't know if I like how they do this or if I don't. I mean, this is kind of cool. Associate professor and director of diversity and inclusion. I love this. Okay, Carolyn Bradley. Let's see what Carolyn looks like. She has a doctorate and she is a BSN and a master in position assistant studies. She's just kind of gone, just gone through the whole gauntlet of everything. I love that they have a diversity and inclusion. You know, somebody that's in charge of diversity and inclusion affairs because it really is important when you're trying to build like a really good cohort and one that can acutely see and meet all of the needs of the populations that they're gonna be serving in the future. And so that is, that's key. So far all, you know, minority women. Okay, Ms. Lorette, she's an assistant professor, Dr. Kugelman, I guess you can say. Bethany Grubb, also an assistant professor. Oh, finally, here's a male associate professor. Here's a DMSC, which is what I talked about in one of my previous videos, Doctor of Medical Science. So mainly women, I think there's maybe three. Okay, so I clicked Michael, but it brought me to Pamela. I don't know what that means. PharmD, that's probably your pharmacology professor. So far I've seen two men and all the rest are females, which I mean, I'm fine with that, I like that. But you know, depending on the student and how you wanna learn, maybe that might not be for you. So these are all things to just kinda look at. All right, admissions, the cost to apply. So the new kind of a CASPA price is $179. And again, you pay 55 for each additional application. So if this was your first school, you would pay 179 and any other school that you applied to in Texas, you would pay $55. So their deadline has already been, September January, yeah, their deadline has already been, this has been closed since September. They give interviews from September to January. And this is why I tell you guys, if you apply early, the earlier you apply, the earlier you might get an acceptance, because if for instance, you applied in June or July, you may have one of those September, August interviews, and you would know already and be prepared that you're gonna be accepted and starting that program the following May. They are a May summer start. And so that's just something to keep in mind. They do obviously require the GRE. And so this is their code that you would use. And then let's just dig a little deeper into their requirements. And so you need to have been, had a bachelor's degree, of course, like most PA programs are, unless they're direct entry, they're all, you know, at minimum bachelor's degree. US Canadian Institute. Okay, so this is cool, because I do have a lot of Canadian like viewers and Canadian that watch my YouTube channel and hit me up on Instagram, talking about coming to school in America. And clearly like this is one of the programs that will accept you as a student. And so as long as you graduated with a bachelor's degree from a Canadian Institute, you are eligible to apply. Their minimum requirement is a 3.0 and everything needs to be completed through CASPA. So they are a CASPA participating program, which not all schools are. Submit all prerequisites of courses by the application deadline, which is September 1st and submit your GRE by September 1st. Okay, the GRE is not required of applicants who have a US accredited bachelor's and master's degree or higher. Oh, that's cool. That's, I like that. I mean, that's like, you know, a really that for some people you're like, who if I had like an MBA and something or you know, just like a master's in health science or whatever the case may be, master's in biology, you don't need to take the GRE, you just need to apply, which is so dope. I like that. So for any of you who are like, man, I don't wanna do the GRE again. I wanna study for the GRE and you have a master's degree. This is a school that does not require it. Okay, so that is pretty cool. The admissions committee holistic application evaluation. Each year we receive a large number of applications. Okay, look at you holistically. They talk about 3.0, 150 hours of science was hands-on patient care, superior interpersonal skills. Okay, cool. So they're saying that they look at the holistic application. It's not just like GRE or it's not just GPA, it's everything. So much more schools do. So competitive candidates, this is good. Competitive candidates are a required member of 3.0. You have to have nothing lower than a C. However, the admissions committee does not face its decision solely on GPA. Okay, that's what I just stated. Kind of gives you a little input on when to submit your application. So let's look at that. Okay, I will review applications that arrive late or are incomplete, that makes sense. Okay, so, I mean, that didn't really give you any insight on like, hey, apply in June or July because that might give you a better opportunity to get your application seen. It just kind of gives you the deadline, which you already know that it's September 1st. Oh, let's look at this. How many applications are received? The total number of applications for the past three years have exceeded 1,500, okay? And the program only admits 60 students each year. So that is a lot of applicants for not that many seats. Although this program has more seats than I think the average PA school does, which is about like 40, I think the average face school typically has some have less, some have more obviously, but 60 is pretty good. So your chances are a little bit increased but not significantly. So because like 10% is what, 150. So you're well less than 10%. You're closer to like the 5% of everybody that applies gets in. So just things to keep in mind. Okay, and this is a full-time school. There are some part-time programs out there. So this question is not like, I know some of you may be like, oh my gosh, like who's gonna ask this question or why is this like even a question that's being addressed? But there are some part-time programs. So that's why it's there. In-person interviews after reviewing the applications, they invite 180 students. So a little more than 10% of the students that apply will get offered an interview and then they will let down to 60. So that's cool. The evening before features, a meet and greet with event, the next, oh, so this is like a two-day thing. So you go to their, if you're doing this, like you're doing it in-person. And so you would go to their school, you'd have like a meet and greet with faculty and staff the day before. And then the next day, you participate in their multiple mini interviews, which is 10 seven-minute interviews on different topics. 10 seven-minute interviews. So that's a little more than an hour that you'll be there. And then you'll also be able to do like the campus tour and stuff, which is the typical day that we usually have. But I like this kind of meet and greet thing where you get to see people and it's not super like stuffy and like competitive and everybody's like on their pees and queues. Like, yeah, you still are, but it's cool that you kind of get to interact with the staff, students and, you know, the alumni and other faculty and people that are being interviewed prior to the actual interview day. So, because that is an interview as well, that whole day. After the interviews, they will notify you. It doesn't say when. I mean, it's typically like anywhere from like a few days to a couple of weeks. So just bear that in mind. Sometimes it may even take a month if they feel like they may waitlist you or something like that. So just don't be too like on edge if you don't get a call within, you know, five days or so. Like give them some time to actually take, take all of the applicants into consideration. All right, so if you'd like to take a closer look at the UT Southwestern PA program, Plants and, okay, they have information sessions and you can download their current information session PowerPoint. So this might be something that you might wanna look into if you're interested in this school because that way you'll be able to kind of see like some of the common questions, things that they've gone over in the past and you can also base your decision on applying, you know, kind of on that. Let's look at the international students for my international applicants. All right, so all candidates are required to do the GRE even if you've earned a medical degree in another country. So you're not exempt from the GRE if you're an international student, you know, unless you came to the United States and have graduated with a bachelor's and a master's degree. So just keep that in mind for all my foreign medical grads and any international student that is interested in applying. Foreign course work, undergraduate foreign course work that appears as transfer credits on the transcript of a regionally accredited university will count, okay, required courses in prerequisite, required courses must be taken at a regionally accredited US or Canadian University transfer credit from a school outside the US or Canada will not apply, okay. So all of these like required prerequisite courses like your anatomy and physiology and biology and whatever else it is. And obviously we will get to that shortly. You have to take it at one of the US or Canadian schools. So this is not a, I come from another country, I went to school in another country, you know, for instance, by had stayed in Trinidad, went to school there, got my degree there. And then I came, I could not like immediately like just pretty like seamlessly apply to this program. I would have to do a little bit of work on the back end, you know, re-taking some of these prerequisite courses or taking them for the first time at a US school or a Canadian school and then applying. And if a language is not your first language, you have to take the TOEFL, okay. Let's look at their requirements. All right, so these are their requirements in terms of the prerequisite courses. And I will, before I continue to go on, I will get into some of your questions that I see in the chat, but let me just go through this really quickly. So it says general chemistry and it's eight credits. So that means like you're doing chemistry one and two because general chemistry is just three credits and one credit for the lab. So total of four credits. So eight credits of Jen Kim, you have to do genetics, anatomy and physiology. And that's just literally like one credit. So it's not like A and P one and two, you can do the first semester of A and P and then go from there. In the case courses that need to be for science majors and must have a lab, okay. So has to have a lab. And that's where the fourth credit would come in anyways. Micro, you would need to do organic chemistry, psychology and statistics. Some of the cool things that I like from what I've been seeing at some of these programs is that there is no like, oh, you need to have biology. Like obviously to get to genetics or A and P, like you would have had to do biology or to get to organic chemistry, you would have had to done Jen Kim, right? But it's not a requirement for all these places. So like biology is not a requirement here. Like Jen bio, although Jen Kim is. And so for me, I kind of like that because there are people who like kind of falter a little bit in some of those earlier science courses, because hey, like it's your first time in school and undergrad like out of the house learning. And sometimes you don't take things as seriously. And so for that not to like be super, way super heavy on you in terms of real prerequisite course load, that's kind of cool. So I like that. They have some recommended electives here for you guys biochem. Cell, I would call it cell monologue but cellular biology, human sexuality. I don't know what that, what is that? I don't know what course that is just in general, but anyways, immunology, medical terminology, maybe it's embryology, I don't know, pharmacology in Spanish. Spanish because it is a Texas school. And so there is a high Hispanic like culture and population down there. So Spanish as one of the recommended courses. Special notes about the prerequisites. Okay, the time limits, all prerequisite courses. Okay, look at this you guys, all prerequisite courses must have been completed within the last 10 years. Okay, so that is important to know. I'm trying to highlight this. Let me see if I can like zoom in. So you guys can see that because this is important to know I think it's important to see that 10 years is from the time that you're anticipating matriculation. So if for whatever reason, let's say you are a non-traditional student and you graduated from college like four years ago or something like that, who knows? Or seven years ago, whatever the case may be. And some of those courses that you took in your first year of college like you took a gap year, you had light, and now your biology or your general chemistry or your organic chemistry is now becoming old and your general chemistry is old. You have to retake those courses. So just bear that in mind because these are sometimes extra courses that, pre-PA students have to bear the brunt of because you're trying to make sure that you keep up with all of these prerequisite requirements. Advanced placement courses, except for courses that meet the UT, U of T credit transfer criteria such as advanced placement or international baccalaureate credit awarded for undergraduate courses, we do not offer advanced student placement or waive required for department courses. Transcript review due to a number of applications received we are unable to review transcript content from prospective applicants. All course requirements and prerequisites are stated on the website, okay? I don't know if this is something that they had offered before but they don't have the opportunity to do that now. I think one of the schools that I did previously said that you can like send them your information and they would go over like your application with you or you can call them or talk to them and they would do that with you which I thought was super dope because sometimes you don't like having somebody that is at the school and you're able to like talk through with them like your application is important. I was able to do that with one of the admissions professors at Kettering and I appreciated her so much because she really helped me like kind of lug deep into my program, like into my application and see exactly like the areas that I was kind of like lacking on or things that I needed to do a little bit better. So I like that, excuse me. All prerequisites of courses must be completed by the date of application, okay? So this is not like a, you get outstanding you have outstanding coursework. Everything has to be completed by the application date not by matriculation. Past fail will not be accepted, okay? So everything needs to be for grade, okay? Pre-admission clinical experience, okay? So this is your direct patient care experience. So clinical experience that includes direct hands-on patient care is strongly recommended. Applicants should demonstrate evidence. They don't have a minimum requirement. I know that's like what you kind of care about says we do not require a minimum number of hours, which is good to know, but hopefully we'll be able to see like the stats of their students and then we can see exactly like what their average student comes in with because although there is not a minimum requirement, like sometimes it's just really good to get close to what their average student comes in with. So examples of that is EMT, paramedic nurse, scribe, medical assistance, CNA, ER tech, PTA, phlebotomist, pharmacy tech. All right, cool. So they have some things that some other schools they accept some things that some other schools don't accept. And so this is cool. We encourage applicants to shadow a physician assistant to gain insight into the PA's role, although this experience is not required. Okay, so shadowing is not required, but very much encourage. All right, essential functions. All individuals, including people with disabilities who apply for admission to UT Southwestern School of Health Professions, much be able, oh, that should be must be able to perform specific essential functions, which deferred depending on the academic program. Okay, the 10 classes, travel to practicums, assimilate. All right, so these are the things, like if you're accepted into the program, these seven things are some things that you need to do. You need to be able to attend school. Okay, you need to be able to go to any practicums that are occurring. And it doesn't matter if you have a disability or if you don't, you have to be able to do it. So just kind of keep them out of mind. All right. Cost of financial and support. Oh, and I said I was gonna go to you guys' questions, so let me just do that really quickly. All right, Ramama, Ramama. All right, I think that's what it says, Ramama. So Ramama says, what do you think about applying to PA school straight out of undergrad? Is it likely to be accepted compared to all the other more older and experienced applicants? I don't know if it's a matter of, if you're likely to be more accepted. There were students that at my program that got in straight out of undergrad, and they were young and they did fine in the program. There were some areas where I know other people that were young kind of struggled in. I had other programs, but at the end of the day, they're all still PAs. I don't know if more likely is the right terminology. I think that in both scopes, being very young or being more mature in age, like you're both gonna have to explain like what makes you appropriate or right for PA school at this moment in time. And so just being able to have that answer in your head and know exactly what you're going to say. So that it just kind of flows organically. I think it's very important. So that is my answer to that. I don't think it's a matter of more likely thing. But if you can get accepted or if you can apply right out of PA school, right out of undergrad and you meet all the, like the pre-rex and the, all of the things that a program is asking for them, do it. Like why wait, get it over with. You can be starting your career at what, 25, 24, depending on how old you were when you graduated. Because PA school is only two years at minimum. All right. And Ramana again said, because I have had so many people tell me that PA school tend to take in people with a few years of patient care experience. And I mean, yes, like unlike medical school, like medical school is all about like the research that you do, like that kind of like outreach, things that you do like extracurriculars on that aspect of things. But PA school was meant as a second career in general. And so a lot of what they put emphasis on is your direct patient care experience. And so to get the amount of hours that some of these programs are interested in or fine, like super attractive, which is anywhere from like 1500 plus hours, you do have to have quite a few years of experience under your belt, like one to two years. And so if you're unable to get direct patient care experience through your undergraduate years, then you might wanna look at taking a gap year or two to kind of just boost your chances of looking really good on that scope. But it's not to say that it's a necessity. Like this program doesn't even have a minimum requirement in terms of their direct patient care hours. They just want you to have some. So that's just something to always keep in mind. CCT said most programs require a minimum amount of PCE hours. You have at least 500 or so, they're asking Ramama. As of now, no, hopefully by the time of graduation. Okay, Jacob Kay said I was recently accepted to Midwestern and I'm waiting to hear back from a few other programs I've applied to. I'm applying while finishing up my senior year of undergrad. Is there a benefit to taking a gap year that I would miss out on and be in a detriment in PA school without? No, I mean, I don't think that, I don't think that there's anything that you're gonna be missing out on. I mean, I look at it almost like basketball, you know, like a few years back, like there was this whole big deal about basketball players going straight out of high school and going into the league and saying that they weren't mature enough and they wanted them to do at least one year in college to just kind of be able to kind of compete at that collegiate level and become more mature. And it might be like the same thing for PA school. Like, yeah, taking a gap year allows you to be out in the world working, getting experience with your healthcare experience, but it's not a necessity. There are several basketball players that went straight out of high school into the league and they're like, they dominated like LeBron and you know, like KG and like some of these other people. So it's important for you to kind of just weigh your options. Like, do you feel like you need an extra year of learning if you've been accepted and by all means take this opportunity as a win and do well in PA school, you know, focus and get it done, but no, I don't think, I don't think it's necessary. Oh, Melissa said, human sexuality is psych at her community college. Okay, yeah, I don't know. I don't know what it is, what it's considered, but cool. MX says, are you familiar with people with BSNs going to PA school? If so, do you know they would get the required classes? Do you know they would get the required classes for PA school? So I don't, maybe it's like, do I know where they would get the required classes? I don't know what you're asking specifically MX, but yes, I am familiar with nurses that went to PA school. They had the requirements. I don't know if they needed to take any extra requirements because maybe they didn't need to take genetics in their BSN degree or something along those lines, but they did well. The nurses that I've known that have become PAs have done well. So, take that as you will. Max says, same both, MX, I think organic chemistry is a definite, so am I not seeing something? Like, I don't know. I don't know what organic, do you know? Anyways, all right, I must've missed that. Anyways, Melissa says, does UT Southwestern accept DOAN or Portugal Learning coursework? I don't know. I mean, again, from what they had in the things that they accept from like international applicants, it all needed to come through you getting your prerequisite coursework from a US or Canadian school, and then you would need to have like your undergraduate foreign coursework verified. Some credit foreign courses will not count towards satisfying any other required courses. Okay, so yeah, your foreign coursework doesn't go towards the required courses section, so like that general chemistry, anatomy and physiology, genetics, cellular biology, but it could satisfy like your undergraduate like baccalaureate degree. I think it just needs to be verified and so, but specifically what you were talking about, you might wanna just kinda reach out to them and ask them. Okay, let's get back into this cost and financial aid, all right? So, whoa, is this a year? The total estimate cost of the 30 month masters of PA, including tuition and fees is 40, what? That is amazing, you guys. For Texas residents, it's $46,000 to go to this PA program. Man, I wish, I absolutely wish it was just that. Little bit of money to go to the program that I went to because that is amazing. At 112 hours, it's 38,000 for a Texas resident and then your fees are like a little bit more, like fourth half, man, you guys, like this, this is great. This is great, this is good to see, I like that. So, very cost effective program here. I think it's been the most cost effective in the programs that I have looked at thus far. This kind of just tipped things over into their favor for me. If I was like a pre-PA student looking at schools, this would have definitely been one on my list because even, well, even though, because I would have been a non-Texas resident, but even this 93,000 is still a whole lot less than what I spent. But if you're in Texas, apply to this school, okay? Curriculum, okay, so this is all of like, you know, what exactly you're gonna learn in PA school, the medical knowledge, you're gonna go through didactic year, then clinical year, and so it kind of just gives you a breakdown of all of those things, like how many credits to expect and what you would be doing throughout the year. This is important to know that the student must maintain at least a 2.75 GPA and have no academic deficiencies to actually graduate from the program and to progress. So keep that in mind. The student must complete all required courses in the degree plan for courses with letter grades of C or higher, must be maintained in every letter grade course with the exception of most courses which need a minimum grade of B. So there are certain courses where you have to have at minimum of B but then everything else you have to have at minimum of C but again, the average GPA that you have to maintain is the 2.75. Okay, looks good to know. Clinical rotations. So these are all the clinical rotations and typically like most PA schools have the same type of clinical rotations. So your internal medicine, emergency meds, surgery, Peds, women's health, family medicines, like infectious disease, and you get an elective. And so you get one elective here. Like I said, I had four, I believe it was electives at my program. Maybe it was three. I'm trying to remember. It was either three or four but it was a lot more than the average which was great for me because it gave me the opportunity to kind of source all of my different interests out and I really honed in on what I wanted to do. All right, frequently asked questions. Let's see. Oh, and this is also good to know. My program was 10 days, 27 months. This program is 30 months. And so you really are getting like more than your money worth if you're a Texas resident at doing a 30 month program and you're only paying, like you're paying less than $50,000. So that is cool. I wanna see like this is cool. This is nice. I don't really care about all of this stuff. Like these are things that you can always go through and look at yourself. I wanna see if there is like the class makeup. Entering class of 2018. I think this needs to be updated. All right, so 76% female, 24% male, underrepresented minority, yes, citizen, permanent resident who come from underrepresented groups, it was 20%. And 96% of them were like US citizens or permanent residents, which is cool that they did have some international students, about 4% of them. So that was good to know. Student health insurance. I'm trying to see if I can really find like dig. Always like to see like the averages, like, you know, what somebody came in with that kind of stuff, what their average GPA is, what their average jury score is. So let's see if I can find that for you all. I'll see it. Oh, so he, look, look, here's where they have their mission and vision statements. So these are the things that you guys also need to keep in mind when applying to these programs for sure, looking at their mission and vision. Accreditation, all right, so they have continued accreditation. Let's see when their next review is, their next review is the 23rd of March, I mean, 2023, March of 2023. So that is cool. Oh, attrition table, let's see. All right, so class of 2020, they had an entering class of 61. They had 56 graduates. So their attrition rate is about the same each year, like four students typically don't make it to the next year. Oh, I like this breakdown here. So in 2018, two withdrew, one for personal, one for academic, and one took a leave of absence. In 2019, two withdrew, one for personal, one took a medical withdrawal, and two took leaves of absences. 2020 had three academic dismissals and two decelerations. So, and a deceleration is essentially what it sounds like. So sometimes you're not asked to withdraw from the program or leave the program, you're just asked to decelerate, like because you weren't meeting all of the necessary benchmarks, and this happens in like med school, like in residency programs as well, where you might decelerate to redo your third year or redo your second year. And so in this instance, two of these students were asked to redo probably didactic gear and just kind of go through that learning experience again before they go another time and go to actual like clinical year. So that is that. I cannot find, I can't find what I'm looking for for you guys though. So I don't know, maybe you can, if you're really interested in this program, maybe something that you can do is call them or contact them and ask them if there's an area that you can look at or find what their average class look like, in terms of their average GPA and those things. So I don't see it, I don't see it here at all. All right, let's get back into you guys's questions. Okay, okay, so everybody's just here kind of responding to Jacob. So I'm gonna go to Ramamma. She says also kind of off topic question, what do your hours look like as a PA? Oh, so my hours, I mean, I talk about this a lot, but I work a 24 hour shift. And so at minimum, I do about like two shifts a week. There are some weeks where I can just do one shift. We're only required to work three shifts in a 14 day period. So what that looks like is I may work like a Monday and a Thursday and then I work the following Monday or I can work the following Sunday and then I have a week off. You know, or I can work like back to back to back, which means I work like a Sunday and then a Tuesday and then a Thursday because I don't work on Sabbath, which is a since it Friday to since it's Saturday. That's when I observed the Sabbath. So I would have to work in those within those confines. And if I do that, then I don't have to go to work until like not the following following like Sunday or Monday or Tuesday. And so it looks really good. I love it. I think it works really well for my family. It works well for me and like my time being able to like make videos for YouTube and do stuff with GTCU and, you know, just kind of continuing to like do the things outside of healthcare that I like to do and spend time with family and not really have to miss out on anything. So that's my hours. I like it. No, I'm not working like working like on my feet doing stuff for a full 24 hours. We do get sometimes to like rest and sit down and typically I will maybe like try to get in the bed by 10 o'clock if there's no trauma or anything like that. And then sometimes traumas come in at one or two or three and you have to wake up again and do stuff where you're fielding calls from your nurses. But for the most part, it's actually pretty cool and I like it. Oh, and that says, I mean like does the nursing curriculum include classes like, okay, microbiology and other classes that PA school requires? I'm sorry if the question was confusing. Okay, yeah. For, I know when I went to undergrad the nursing program at my school, first and foremost, they didn't take organic chemistry. They took inorganic chemistry and they took a different biology than we took. Like for anybody that was like pre-med, we took a biology course with like the other pre-med slash honors students because there was like a pre-med class like science class and then there was an honors class that was more specifically in the medical model. So although I know that they didn't take like the same biology that we took, their biology still sufficed but inorganic chemistry would not suffice for organic chemistry and so you would have to likely take organic chemistry. They did not have to take like medical terminology. So there are some courses that aren't required. Like even some of the site courses like developmental or abnormal psych depending on the school that you're going to is not a required course in your overall BSN degree. So you would just have to kind of look into that and see what courses you would need to take in addition to your BSN degree and kind of satisfy that either in like your summer months or so and I don't foresee it being that many courses but you just kind of have to look into that. So hopefully that clears that up for you. But it's like with anything that's not solely science-based like that's not one of your natural sciences like your biology or chemistry or a biochemistry or biomedical sciences degrees. There are going to be some things like if you were an account like you were doing like accounting or you were doing social work or something along those lines there are going to be additional courses that you're going to have to take that aren't in your particular track for your degree but you just kind of do it. You go where you like, go what you go with what you love and then just kind of supplement in the things that you need. All right. Yeah, I'll be faced and I said I think it depends on the nursing program that you attend which is, I agree, eight. CCT if you look at your degree program it will tell you the requirements of graduation. So everybody's just kind of answering your question, MX. So just kind of look at CCT and be faced Danny's comments because I think they do a good job of kind of helping you source that out as well. I think I may be the oldest in the chat and already have a degree in healthcare profession. I don't know, be faced Danny, maybe I'm the oldest. Well, I'm not in the chat, I'm just kind of in the room but you know, there's nothing wrong with being a little seasoned. MX said, thank you guys so much. Ramama says, how is it like doing 24-hour shifts? Do you think it's easy to stay away from being burnt out? So, no, I just think healthcare in general it's easy to get burnt out. Yes, my job lends for the opportunity to not get burnt out as quickly as others because I'm not going in every day, I'm not going in three days a week, every week and having to deal with the stresses of the healthcare world, healthcare profession and then I can take vacations without even taking PTO which is really, really, really a blessing because you get to kind of save up that PTO four times where you may need it, where you may want an extra long vacation, you wanna do like three weeks instead of just like a week or two weeks. So yes, I think it lends to extending the time before burnout but just in general, healthcare in general is really taxing like both mentally and physically and so it's important to be able to like get that time to yourself, get that spiritual like rejuvenation and that's why like for me, the Sabbath is important not having to like worry about work or anything work related or even work on those two days. I just kinda get to relax and just kind of just reset. So yeah. Melissa D, how did your study habits change once you got into the PA program? Anything you recommend or tips? Yeah, so how did my study habits change? So I studied a little bit more often with my classmates in undergrad. I really didn't study with friends like that. I think I may have studied with friends once or twice but for the most part, I was a like a solo studier I guess you could say and I still kind of did the same thing in PA school but I knew that it was important to be able to kind of meet up with my classmates to bounce ideas and thoughts and questions off of them because sometimes they may see things a little bit differently than I or have an easier way of remembering something or have an easier way of understanding something. And so a lot of what I did in PA school was like kind of did some self study but I also went and I studied a bit with classmates. And for PA school, I was a lot more regimented than I was an undergrad. I made a schedule for myself. I stuck to that schedule in terms of the times I was studying and that is in part due to me having a family as well. So I had to make sure that I had the time laid out for everybody but for the most part, my study habits changed just slightly which was incorporating like group study but you have to know when to like dip in and dip out in terms of that group study. Like if it's not effective, if you're not gaining from it then for sure I leave. And so that link up there is, I think the status of UT Southwestern but it's a bit old though. I mean, I don't know what link specifically. Bramama said, thank you so much. But yeah, okay, so that is that. Hopefully you guys got some good stuff from here. If you're interested in this program for sure, look into them. If anything, like I didn't go over or there was something that you were looking at, you might wanna like call a school, contact them directly and then go from there and make your decisions based on that. MS has one more question. She says, or they say, how many PA schools do you plan on researching? I plan on researching all of them. I'm gonna try to get through all of them. There's over 300. So obviously I have a lot of content for weeks to come and I'm trying to think about how exactly I'm gonna go through this because obviously doing one school a week, there are only like, I'm only gonna be able to get through like 52 or so programs but I wanna be able to hit up the schools that you guys are really interested in first because CASPA opens up each year in April. So if I'm able to get to a program prior to the time that CASPA opens up, then you guys have the information to apply to those programs. So that's why I asked you to leave your comments in the comment section below on the schools that you want me to review so that I can actually go and get those schools first and then I can go back to the CASPA participating programs and just kind of go through systematically on researching the rest of those schools. So yeah, hopefully that helps. Melissa Dee said, thank you. This school is my top choice. There aren't very many PA programs in Texas. I appreciate your time. Yeah, no problem. I'm glad that I was able to do this school for you. And DeJro said, can you research PA schools by regions? I mean, I guess that is something that I can absolutely do once I've gotten through the schools that some of you all have already requested is probably go through region by region versus just going through it alphabetically. I'll look into that, DeJro. Sounds like a good option, so for sure. All right, thank you guys so much for watching and joining me tonight. If you have any comments or questions after this post, leave them in the comment section below. And don't forget to write specifically what schools you want me to review next because then I will choose from those schools and do those before I go back and do any schools regionally or alphabetically. 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