 If you're looking for a video on a specific topic, simply type in what you're looking for in my channel, Search Bar, and if I have videos addressing that topic, it will take you right to them. What's up, you guys? It's Adana. I am back with another video for you guys. So this video, you guys, it's going to be about, is PA school right for you? So PA school is not right for everybody, and that's okay. There are other healthcare routes to go. There are other professions out there, and you just have to realize and be willing to realize and be willing to make that decision that, hey, this is not right for me. How do you decide that, right? How do you sit up here and you're like, you know what, I don't think PA school is right for me. A lot of things have to go into this whole decision-making process. So time. Time. Do you have the time? If you have the time, then great. If you don't have the time currently at the moment, then PA school might not be right for you because you have to put time in to PA school. PA school is hard. You're going to have to dedicate a lot of time to studying, and you're going to have to dedicate a lot of time to the profession of itself prior to actually becoming a PA. So you're going to have to put a lot of work in with respect to all of the prerequisites, the healthcare experience hours, the patient care experience hours, your shadowing, your studying for your GRE, the different things that will actually put you in a position to get into PA school, and then after that, you still have to now complete PA school. You have to make the sacrifices that you have to make, and one of those sacrifices is the time that you have now. So is that something that you're willing to do? If you are and you have the time to do so, then PA school might be right for you. In conjunction with time, you have to put in the money, right? Because PA school is not cheap. On average, you're spending anywhere from like $50,000 a year or so to like upwards. About $50,000 a year for some schools, we're making it around like $100,000 a year. Or like $30,000 again at like $60,000 or $25,000 making it $50,000 depending on the model that they have set up. Is it a three-year program versus a two-year program? Is it a dual master's degree? All of that comes into play with respect to how much you're paying. So do you have the money to do that? Do you have the money at hand or can you get a loan within a couple of months to supplement your life while you're in PA school? If you can, then great. PA school might be right for you. If you cannot, you might want to think of something else because they don't play with their money. So you definitely, it's a business, right? Like anything in this world, going to school is a business. So they have to get paid and therefore you have to be able to pay them. So that is something that you have to think about as well. When you're trying to figure out is PA school right for you? Now, the material. So it is a lot of material. We say it a lot. Everyone in like healthcare in general, but I hear it a lot now that I'm in PA school. PA school and the information that you're getting is like drinking through fire hydrant or fire hose. How are you going to actually obtain and retain all this information? Because it's like you're drowning, right? With that being said, is that something that you can handle? Can you handle the material that is being thrown at you? If you can, then PA school is right for you. If you cannot, if you're not a person that can sit up here and read for hours and get that information down, like my husband, that's not him. Aunt is not I'm going to sit down and read for three hours. Like that's not his thing. He's going to go crazy. So he knows that PA school is not right for him. And that's why he's chosen the path that he's on. And so we have to be honest with ourselves and do the same thing with the paths that we're on or the paths that we're thinking of. Also, with respect to that fire hydrant, you know, analogy, the stress because school can be very stressful. You're going to have lots of tests and exams coming up, like, you know, final exams and cumulative exams and quizzes and practicals and different things that you're dealing with. With that being said, you have to learn how to manage your stress. And if you're somebody that does not know how to manage your stress well or gets stressed very easily, then PA school might not be well suited for you. And that's not to say that it will always not be well suited for you. So all of these things I'm saying doesn't mean like, okay, then don't go to PA school at all, but you really have to sit down and be honest with yourself and say, Hey, is this a deal breaker? Is this something that I can actually overcome? Is this something that I'm willing to test? See if I can overcome or, you know, let me just save my money, save my time, save my stress level and keep it moving. So those are some things that you definitely need to think about. Also, with respect to PA school, sometimes it's very isolating. You know, you're away from your family most of the time. You're away from friends. Yes, you may be making new friends, but that in and of itself is difficult on top of trying to study and make sure that you're passing all of your your your classes, understanding that, hey, you may not necessarily be able to spend time with your family and friends and you may be isolated. If that is not the type of person that you are and if that's not going to bolster a well for your, like you being a productive student, then, hey, you know, you might want to just kind of think about that and look into something else. Also, with respect to PA school, you definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely have to be able to manage all of the things that you're going to see. So if you're very squeamish. Oh, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck. I like cysts. Oh, you're for the wrong moment. You're not really good with blood. You're not good with, like, you know, like gross looking things, like abscesses or really bad scars, like ticubitus ulcers, things like that. Then you might want to look into something else. Maybe the health care field is not for you in general. Maybe you need, like in terms of, like, working with patients, maybe you need to be behind the scenes in the health care field. And that's OK to find your niche, find where you fit in. But that's what this is all about, because you're going to see that not just in PA school, like if you're going to these different free clinics to do some work and help out there, which a lot of schools do. But also when you get on rotations, that's what you're going to be dealing with. You're going to be doing, you know, at IND. You're going to be assisting on surgery. You're going to be doing things that probably are going to need to be OK with doing. You can't be squeamish and not do well with the site of blood and make it through a surgery rotation. Like you're going to faint every time. Vasal vagal is going to kick in and you're going to be on the floor and that's not going to be a good thing. Like you're not going to pass that surgical rotation. So you definitely need to be aware of those things. Just look at yourself. Take a deep, long, personal look at who you are and say, hey, is this right for me? Is this something that I can deal with? Ask, ask anybody. Ask people that you know that are in school. Ask PACs that you may know. Ask physicians and nurses and ask them about their different professions and see if those may fit better than a PA or a PA may fit better than those professions. Look and see what might make the best sense for you, I guess, you know, like understand what's going to work best for you in your life and what's going to be most productive for you as a person. And if that is PA school, then more power to you. Yeah, I hope this was helpful to any of you that are kind of on the fence between PA school and med school and MP school and, you know, becoming a chef or just kind of live in the afterlife or, you know, trying to do the MBA thing, whatever it may be, whatever you're on the fence about. Hopefully this kind of just gives you some insight on the things that you should probably be thinking about with respect to making decisions that are best for you in your life. If you have any further questions, go ahead and leave them in the comment section below. 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