 That is definitely not what you want to say when you get into your PA school interview. What's up, you guys? It's Donna. I am back with another video for you guys. So I wanted to talk to you guys about the PA school interview. I got my interview. I was really, really excited. I did a lot of research. I looked up, you know, PA school interviews. I looked up different forums of PA school interview forums in a sense, like just trying to get a taste or an idea of what to expect in the PA school interview. And I got a lot of good information. I thought, you know, they talked about understanding what a PA is, knowing that they are dependent, knowing that they're dependent practitioners and, you know, things of that. But it was like outdated. That is definitely not what you want to say when you get into your PA school interview. Do not talk about being a dependent practitioner. That is not what you are. We are so much more than that. And PA's are moving far away from that terminology. So that is something that you definitely do not, if you look up those forums, don't use that terminology. But I did my research. I tried a lot of different things. I looked at little PA school questions. It was, it was a lot, but none of that information came up in my PA school interview, you guys. It was actually pretty nerve wracking trying to prepare for it. I, one thing I highly suggest you guys doing is going to a PA's website and looking up the PA history. If you don't know much about PA history, like I had not known once I went to my interview, like don't be like me, you guys. Do your research on the profession that you're trying to get into. I remember I was in my interview, like we were in like the group, just like everybody's in this big room together. We're getting the welcome and they're like, the director of the program is talking about. He's like, who is the founder, the creator of the PA profession? And everybody's like Eugene Stan. I'm like, you know, like when you're singing, you all say watermelon and it looks like everything, every other word. And that's literally what I did, because I did not know who the founder of the profession was. Like, are you seriously not and you're trying to be a PA and you don't know the roots? The roots. The roots. The roots. The roots. The roots. The roots. The roots. The roots. The roots. The roots. The roots. The roots. The roots. The roots, man. So definitely, you guys, go ahead and do your research. Go to AAPA's website. They will have information on the history of the PA profession, the founders, the first military guys that went into the PA program, and just get all that information and run with that. Knowing about OTP, definitely, definitely know about that. That is something that PA's are super, super, super, very proud of. Well, a majority of them, some of them are still on the fence, but knowing what that means, you know, optimal team practice and what that means for the PA profession as it goes forward. He can't go wrong with that. In my interview, we came in, it was all of us in one room. Then we had a tour of the program and the facility. We had kind of like a welcoming statement about the program and what they do in that particular program. We had our single personal one-on-one interviews, and they kind of did like a round robin where you went to three different rooms with different professors in each room that asked different questions and, you know, you answer them to the best of your ability. Don't be afraid. Just take a moment, think about the question, and then answer it, and you will do fine. I know one of my questions was like, oh, so, you know, PA school is hard. What would you do if you got a C? Or if you got an F on a project? And you had to think about that because you're used to getting really good grades, so they want to know how are you going to operate when something doesn't go your way or you're dealing with stress? So think about those questions and answer them truthfully and you will do great. And then we had the group interview session at the end of my PA school day, and that was great. I love that. I think I thrive in those sessions, but that was just a great opportunity for me to, you know, glean from other people, understand how they're thinking. They want to see you in a team setting, but also be able to say my own points and I loved it. So that's kind of how I ended the day group session. We came back, they said everything, and I like, guys, make sure you do this. So before I even got into the program or got in got to the school for the interview, I already had thank you cards. And what I did was every instructor person that I met that was in the program, I wrote their names on a thank you card, and I wrote thank you to them for allowing me the opportunity to interview with them at this program. And before I left, I dropped it off at the front desk and I gave it to them. I highly suggest you guys do that. Give, have your thank you cards ready for everyone that you interview with or anyone that's in the program that you interacted with, because it's only going to make you that much more memorable in their minds because they're going to be like, Oh, who is this? Oh, that's who it was because they have a picture of you. So I'm like, Oh, it's her. She's the one who did this. And that's just that next step that people are going to remember. And you want to be memorable because trust me, they see hundreds of candidates. So you definitely want to be memorable. So that was my interview session. I am going to do a video about the actual group interview because I know a lot of people have anxiety about just being in a group setting in a group interview, nothing to worry about you guys. You guys are going to do great. But I'm just going to give you a couple tips that I held on to or that I used while in my group interview session. So stay tuned for that video. I will leave a link for it somewhere in the description box so that you guys can get to it once it's completed. All right. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you haven't already done so go ahead and subscribe. Join me on this journey and we will have a blast. I will see you guys next week. Later.