 What's up you guys, it's Denone. Welcome back to my channel. Thank you guys so much for joining me today. So you guys have been bombarding me with questions about locum tenants since I've done that travel video for the travel PA. So if you haven't already seen that video that I made a few weeks back about being a travel PA, aka working locum tenants, go ahead and check that video out after you've already watched all of this video. And of course, subscribe because it really helps my YouTube algorithm out. So this question was posed to me. There's two questions that I'm gonna be answering in this video. One is gonna kind of be talking about exactly what is the best experience that you should get and then how can you do this? Like can you do this straight out of PA school? So let's get into it right now. Oh, doing my dance, hey. I'm doing my dance, don't mind me. I'm doing my dance, hey. All right, you guys. So this question came from Eric Davenport and it said, hey, Donna, what field do you think is best to start in to gain experience in a broad range to be comfortable and effective in locum tenants? Family medicine or urgent care perhaps, thank you. All right, so that's the first question I'm gonna be answering. So Eric, thank you for your question. If you haven't already subscribed, go ahead and do that, Eric. But this question I think is a good question to ask because honestly, a lot of us are looking for, hey, I wanna be in a certain specialty or doing something specific but I wanna be able to be super effective at that and the way to do that is to get experience. Let me just fix my hair, it looks a little crazy right there. But you wanna have experience and so the best way to have experience is to get a broad view of everything. You can touch on everything. You can be a jack of all trades. Not always best to be a jack of all trades. Sometimes you wanna be a master of one but in this realm, when you are trying to get into locum tenants, a lot of these jobs are in the emergency medicine setting or even family medicine setting. And so I think that although family medicine is a good place to be, I think it almost pigeonholes you. So I would definitely suggest doing urgent care because that way you get not only the family medicine type stuff of people coming in with a high blood pressure and you wanna give them something to lower it or you want them to come back to check and see the second time to see, all right, well, is your BP still high? If it is, then you absolutely need to go talk to your family medicine physician and get on some BP medication. Or if you are like me, the job that I worked at, the urgent care I worked at prior to getting into PA school, they not only were an urgent care but they also dealt with family medicine. They had patients of their own. So the patients would go there to see their physicians and as a PA, you would be seeing not only the acute care stuff where somebody has a broken bone or something that's lacerated that needs suturing but you would also be seeing patients that need management help with their BP medication and their diabetes stuff. So that is the realm that I suggest you go into. If you can't get into emergency medicine because it is a little bit difficult straight out of PA school to get into emergency medicine, get into urgent care, get a wide view of all of the runnings of an urgent care and then apply with some temp agencies or some recruiters to be a part of a local attendance group. So that's the first question. And since we're here in a break, you guys can go ahead and hit that like button if you liked what I've already said and go ahead and subscribe if you haven't already done so, okay? The next question is from Beverly. And she said, hey Adana, could a PA do local attendance right out of school? Or would most places prefer you to have some sort of experience first? Since if you're only at each location for a limited time, they probably won't have time to train you, thanks. Okay, and that is a great question because you know, training, a lot of people do want training or like, oh, they're not willing to train or they are willing to train. And so yes, obviously they want experience. They want a little bit of experience, but again, like with the dilemma of every PA student, like you're asking me for three years of experience or two years of experience, I just graduated and passed my boards. Like how can I get this experience if you're not willing to train me or if you're not willing to give me the experience? And that is like a lot of the problems that new grad PAs face, okay? But again, it depends on the local attendance job that you are applying to. So obviously there are some that will absolutely want you to have experience because you know what? Like yeah, I'm not trying to train you. I don't have time to train you. I just need you to like hit the ground running. And again, it's usually general stuff like I stated when I was answering Eric's question. A lot of it is like your emergency medicine, urgent care, family practice type of field. So it's the general common things that you would see as a PA. So you know, somebody comes in with a stomach ache and have gastroenteritis, that kind of stuff. How are you gonna replete them and give them the right education for moving forward, that kind of thing. So those are the things that you definitely have to keep in mind. But at the same time, yes, you can absolutely get a job as a local tenant straight out of PA school. I was offered a couple jobs with like recruiters that I was working with for locum tenants, where it was like a three month, you know, what is it called? Like a three month contract, I guess you can say. That's not really what the word I'm looking for. But if you remember, you know the word I'm looking for, go ahead and leave that in comment section below. But just kind of like being stationed there for three months essentially. So yeah, you know, that was an option for me. It wasn't something that I necessarily wanted to do again because I had a family, but it was an option. And so you really just kind of have to put yourself out there. I suggest you guys apply to as many jobs as you can, you know, do whatever it is that you can, even if you feel like you may not be qualified, apply because you never know, okay? But that is it. Hopefully it answers your questions, you guys. Continue to leave me those questions in the comment section below. If you haven't already done so, subscribe and like this video, follow me on Instagram at the down the P.A. And I will talk to you guys next time. Bye.