 What's up you guys? It's Adana. Welcome back to another PA Q&A Tuesday. So excited to do this for you guys. I really love answering these questions for you guys. Usually I do it in comment form, but we are doing these new PA Q&A Tuesdays where I will be answering you guys' comments live on video. So let's get into it. Well actually before we get into it, guys, if you would like a question answered, go ahead and leave that in the comment section below. All right, let's do this. When did you start PA school? Parentheses like right after high school? No. So I did not start PA school right after high school. I went on and I got my bachelor's degree in biomedical sciences with a minor in chemistry, and then I applied to some med schools, got accepted to a couple of them, and then I kind of like piddled paddled around for a little while and decided that medicine in terms of med school wasn't for me. I wanted more time with my family and the PA career came into my life. So I just started PA school last year in May. I can't believe that I literally only have two months left of this didactic year, but I do. But there are a couple programs where you can go straight in to kind of like a bridge program where you're in your undergraduate degree. So straight out of high school, you go into this program where it's a bachelor's degree and a PA master's degree all at the same time. So like in a matter of like five to six years, you're getting that same degree, but it's all at the same school. And once you apply to that bachelor's degree or that bachelor's program, you're also applying to the PA program. So those are options for those of you who just want to go straight in to PA school from high school. How many hours do you study per day? So my study habits slash studying hours kind of depends on what I have going on that week or that particular day or the next day. A lot of us kind of like study in class as well. So I won't count those hours that we're really supposed to be paying attention to the lecture, but we're studying in class. But we do do that from time to time, especially if we have a test coming up within the next like few hours. And our teachers are aware that they're really really like understanding with us. Because I know like we're not always engaging at times, but that's just kind of like you're just trying to get as much of the information and see it as many times as you possibly can. But on a typical day, like generally, I'll get out of school anywhere from like 435 o'clock now. Thank God. I'm really excited about my schedule this semester because it's a lot lot nicer than the last two semesters. But when I would get out at five o'clock or 430, then I go home and I'm pretty much studying kind of like for the next four hours. You know, I do stuff with like my kids and make food and that kind of stuff. And then pretty much for like four hours, four to six hours, depending on what I have going on, that's what I'm studying. I'll try to be in bed by 11 12, the latest 1230 sometimes sometimes I push one, but I try not to do that just so that I'm able to get enough rest to be actually like productive and functioning the next day. But generally speaking from me, I study about anywhere from four to five hours a day after school does actually undergraduate school matter with two applicants with the same GPA and similar extracurricular activities. But one goes to a big university and one attends a small state university be a deciding factor. I mean, I don't really think that PA programs are looking at like what school you went to per se. I'm sure like going to Yale or Harvard kind of looks good on any application. So I'm sure that looks good to them. But at the end of the day, if you come to the interview and you're just not a good fit for the school, you're not getting in. So yes, I do feel that some of those like, you know, extra things pay play a part in you getting an interview. But ultimately, it's you and your personality that's going to get you into PA school. So yes, you may have like all the same stats. But one may get in and one may not and that's all due to the fact that hey, they were just a better fit for the class as a whole for the cohort that's going through. Because a lot of times PA schools also base their their acceptance on those that they've accepted before not like the class before. But let's say we've already accepted five students, how are those five students now going to kind of intertwine and like collaborate with these five students that we're thinking about accepting. So it's all I like it's like a big like game. And I actually talked to one of my professors who was making kind of like a statistical analysis of how to, you know, see if you're going to be a good fit and stuff like, I don't know how she's doing it like but she's an amazing statistician and epidemiologist. So I'm sure she's doing going to do a great job with getting that. But it's definitely not something I would want to do on a daily basis because I feel like it's difficult in and of itself trying to figure out okay are you going to be a good fit for my school just by looking at your application and then trying to interview you along with all of the other hundred students that I'm trying to interview. I mean really it's up to you. So that's kind of like my little like moment there for you guys. Yes, it probably plays a part but that's not the determining factor in you getting into school. In didactic gear are you going to classes every day or only certain days a week? Also what specialty or specialties are you planning on going into? Alright so in didactic gear I'm sure it varies from school to school but you're generally in school every day. I'm in class every day. I know there are some programs that get a day off or get like a full morning off and I kind of had that worked into my program in different areas but I'm still in school like every day. So typically speaking my classes will start at 8 and they'll end around 4 4 30 for this current semester. My last two semesters it was like 4 35 and that was really really tough but this actually this semester we're starting at like 9 and ending at like 4 4 30 which is really really good but on Tuesdays we have this really really long lunch from like one to three which is amazing. We don't necessarily have to be in class until maybe 9 20 10 o'clock depending on if you have your sim class early in the morning or if you have a break you have sim and then I have my pd class after that. So I like for me I don't have to go to class until 9 20 on Tuesdays because my simulation class doesn't start until 9 20. Well 9 30 and then on Fridays we have a community clinic where we go and we work we work will we see patients at the community clinic in like downtown and we do that for them in the morning from around like 9 to 12 and then we come back for our clinical rotation day class because we are going to be going on clinical rotations and just a few months so excited about that and then we also have pbl every Friday where we're doing a problem based learning and we're having new cases seeing new patients they're pretend patients maybe sometimes based on real patients but we're going to diagnose and you know write our notes on how to treat them and such so it's very like it varies with respect to how long I'm in school and when I start and when I don't and when I finish um but typically it's generally like eight to four eight to five um early on in your semesters um and in your didactic year and it might get light in the middle and then it's hard again at the end or for me it's it was like kind of hard super super hard second semester and then now it's like oh this is a nice break before rotations so that's what um we typically do with respect to school it's every day but it's kind of like staggered on exactly how many hours were actually like in school getting lectured what's a pa what what do you mean what's a pa have you not seen my channel oh man you know so and this I'm really excited to answer this question for you because I want everybody to know what a pa is so a pa is a physician assistant and we are certified licensed professionals who will treat and diagnose and prescribe medicine to the general public we're kind we're taught as general list in a sense so we can do like family practice internal medicine we can do your you know your urgent care stuff and your er um where you'll see many many pa's in the er um there you've probably been treated by pa's but then also we can also be specialized as you know being a surgical pa or an ortho like orthopedic pa or you could be a cardiothoracic pa or a neuro pa so there are many many different areas cardiology that you can actually go into as a pa and also treat and um see patients but we are practitioners that help the general public we're essential to helping the public because with healthcare as it is in the healthcare system that we're under right now currently more and more people need access to healthcare and pa's and future pa's like myself will be the ones that will be kind of stemming that that and and allowing you all to be able to see practitioners see providers and get treated and get healthier as the future progresses so that is a pa if you want to know more about exactly specifically what we do or the different areas that we can practice in i suggest you go to a pa.org i will leave a link for that just so that you can find out a little bit more information on what a pa is um and uh what we do well thank you guys so much for that i'm so excited that i got to answer that question for you all especially for you who asked it alia i'm very very passionate about my future career and i want everyone to know about it so for me to be able to answer that for you and just give you a little bit more insight about the profession i'm excited so my job is done for today if you guys have any more questions leave that in the comment section below i will be sure to answer them for you and if you have been already done so go ahead and follow me on instagram at adana the pa and subscribe to my channel right now and i will talk to you guys next time