 What's up you guys to down and welcome back to my channel. I hope you guys are staying safe out there If you have not seen my latest video that aunt put out like I don't know if you guys know that he rides for me pretty hard So I just want to say thank you Talking about the various different experiences that I had in PA school just a small minutiae of them So if you haven't seen that video go check it but other than that I hope you guys are doing well I wanted to make this video for you all because you've been asking me about like the Certification process and just kind of like what comes after PA school and so that's what this video is It's really going to kind of try and break down exactly what you have to spend money on after PA school So you better save your coins and save that that refund check because you will need it All right So immediately after graduating PA school typically you will take like a week to Three months or so to take your boards, you know study for them take your boards pass your boards, right? That is usually like your hopefully prayerful sequence of events your boards cost $500 like off the bat. So that's $500 that you're gonna have to spend Right when you're out of PA school to take your boards to become certified So once you are a certified physician assistant, that's where kind of the fun begins You're not able to really work yet because you still have to get licensed, right? So depending on the state that you live in your license may cost different amounts of of money My state license cost $200 So where I was at I had to pay after I passed my boards and paid $500 for that I had to pay another $200 to get licensed so that I can put that I am a licensed physician assistant on my resume Because that is something that like people are looking for like do I am I going to have to take an extra six or so weeks After I've hired you to actually get you licensed to be able to work in my practice or in my hospital Because it is a process to get licensed and all of the various different credentials that comes along with that So once you have actually been certified and you've paid to get your license There's also this thing like once you like are officially a PA like I just want to touch on that first NCCPA says congratulations, and there's also like a fee. It's a certification maintenance fee. That's $180 It is due prior to your license Expiring so next year or so I can pay it now if I want to but within these next couple months I will have to pay a certification maintenance fee of $180 So that's also something that you should really be thinking about prior to graduation. Um, how do you want to Spend your money going forward So after you've paid that fee you've gotten certified you've gotten licensed You're shopping around for jobs You're also going to need to pay for your cds license and your dea license So your cds license is your control drug substance license Now you need your cds license to actually file for your dea license In my particular state, you cannot get a dea without a cds license number That's what you have to put in your application and to get your cds It takes anywhere from four to six weeks Obviously with coronavirus like your states may be moving a lot slower than usual. So it might like compound that But no actually sorry So it takes about it usually takes two to four weeks to get the cds license in my state But because of coronavirus it said that it was taking four to six weeks So that was something that I had to deal with While I was like going through this process because I literally was getting my cds Right when like Three days before everything started shutting down for the coronavirus. So That's something to take in mind now for all of you pa students that are going to be graduating In the next few days and few months So after you get your cds license, which again can take anywhere from four to six weeks Then you can actually apply for your dea license Now this is like the big daddy of them all because it costs the most to get your dea license It is seven hundred and thirty one dollars Now your dea is renewed every three years and so is your cds. So you will obviously be shelling out this The cds costs one hundred and twenty dollars. So you'll be shelling out about like nine hundred dollars Every three years to maintain these licenses So once you have actually finished and you've gone through and you've paid for your certification You paid for your license. You've paid your maintenance fee You've paid for your cds license and your dea license You will then also need to pay for your delegation agreement Now some jobs pay for that When they're hiring you because you're getting a delegation agreement with the physician that you will be working with so They're going to just automatically pay for that but some don't and so Before you get hired You just need to make sure that you have that money set aside so that you know exactly like Hey, I have up to three hundred dollars for this delegation agreement My delegation agreement cost two hundred and twenty dollars that I had to pay out of pocket But then was reimbursed After everything went through with like my credentialing and all that stuff through the hospital So that was something um that was really beneficial to me because I got reimbursed So it wasn't fully out of pocket, but initially you need to make sure that you have that money So if we just go through and add all of these numbers up like you need to have just kind of stashed away About two thousand dollars after you've graduated from pa school just to start working as a pa So that's a lot of coins So I'm telling you guys this because not everybody knows that hey There's going to be other fees that you're going to have to pay after you've graduated from pa school And not everyone knows exactly what those fees are So I wanted to let you guys know because it is important to know what you're going to be spending your money on Hopefully this was helpful to you. This was kind of part of the certification process There is more to go through with it And I will do more videos on that in the future But if you have not already done so please like this video Subscribe it really helps my youtube algorithm and don't forget to follow me on instagram Thank you guys so much for watching. I hope you guys stay safe out there. I will talk to you guys next time