 What's up, you guys? It's Adana. Welcome back to my channel. So I am really excited because today we announced who the winners of the giveaway was. So the winners of the giveaway are Mario Navarro and the S-word. So, Mara, you will be getting the pre-PA bootcamp that is presented by RossReview and the S-word you will be getting none other than the GRE Prep by Magouche. So please send me an email at itonthepa.com to claim your prize. I will verify, like, you are who you say you are. So please, everybody else who may have entered or you might want to, like, get this prize, do not send me an email there unless you are Mario Navarro or the S-word. And I will, again, obviously have your pictures up up here. So if you are interested in entering the future giveaways, as I stated, this will be done monthly. Next month will be for my PA students. So you guys stay tuned throughout the course of this month to see exactly what that giveaway will be. And then the following month will be back to my pre-PAs. And since you guys seem to really like this, you know, GRE Prep slash the bootcamp, I'll incorporate that within these upcoming giveaways, okay? Alright, so this video, again, was asked by one of you guys. I'm really excited. It was asked by Yanni Layden and she's wanted to know, like, how did I get into trauma? How did I get my job? And so that's what we're going to be talking about in this video. Let's get into it. I'll see you guys throughout how you got this job. What was your experience before PA school? I'd love to go into trauma. So if you guys don't already know, if you haven't really been following me on this journey, you may not know that I am a trauma PA and if you have not been following me on this journey, please you guys subscribe to my channel because that really helps my YouTube algorithm along with liking my videos. So please do those two things for me because it will help my YouTube go far and be promoted to other people who may not know about the PA profession and, you know, Adama PA. So please do that for me. But yeah, you know, I'm in trauma. I'm actually in acute care surgery. So I not only do trauma, I cover for vascular and thoracic surgery as well, along with general surgery. I work 24 hours in my shift and I do that three times in a 14-day period. So it's a pretty sweet deal. I really like it. It gives me a lot of time to kind of, you know, be with my family and, you know, run, you know, Adama PA and get that to university and do things like that that I'm really passionate about doing along with still providing care for others. So how did I get into this profession? I mean, well, not really profession, but more so this specialty. And honestly, like, it was really, I had a really easy road. And, you know, not everything is this easy. You're not especially when it comes to trauma. Like, so your surgical subspecialties like trauma and just general surgery in general, along with like cardiothoracic surgery or women's health. All of these like specialties are a little bit more difficult to get into as a new grad because they typically want experience. And when I say experience, we're talking like three to five years of experience. So for me to get this job in trauma, it was really a blessing. And like, I can't chop that up to anything but God. Okay. Like it happened really, really organically. I did all of my rotations at the hospital that I work at. I spent maybe around like eight or so months there. So they've got to really know me work, know my work ethic, you know, know what I was about as a person, know my attitude and see if I fit with, you know, the people that I would potentially be working with, you know, in a year and a half from that time, which actually was like not even known to me, I guess you could say or them, but it was good because essentially you make and you build these bridges and it's a great thing to do to not burn these bridges that you have when you're going through your rotations. So how I got into this specialty was really through my rotations, you guys. And that's why when you are in PA school and your school allows you to either do an outside rotation somewhere or you're doing a rotation where your school has placed you, make sure that you are building these bridges. Make sure that you are building relationships and having experiences that are good because ultimately these are the people that are going to be valging for you. You might ask them for a recommendation letter for a job that you will be applying for or you might be going to them for a job. And so it's essential that you're actually making sure that the impression that you're leaving on them is a good one. And so that is really what I did. You know, I was very purposeful in ensuring that I did all of my rotations in an area that I wanted to practice in in the DMV area. I went to school in Virginia, but I lived in Maryland prior to going to school and so I wanted to stay in that DMV area. And because of that, I did all of my rotations there. I built my relationships there and then when it came time now to apply for jobs, of course, I applied everywhere. You know, I applied all over to various different places. There are various different specialties. I wasn't really picky. I knew areas that I didn't want to work. So I obviously didn't apply in those areas, but every other area was fair game and open. And so I applied to all these different positions and then interviewed and kind of just went through and made sure that the position, the money that I was being offered, the hours that I was being asked to work, any call that I was being asked to take it all fit well with what I wanted for my life and my lifestyle. And so this kind of really just fell in my lap. I applied. Actually, what happened was I was doing a... I was doing like a pre-PA, pre-healthcare type of conference at the NIH and my friend had invited me because she was being invited to do this every year. I had actually done my rotations with her in women's health and she was like, Hey, you know what's going on? Do you want me to talk to my boss for you to see if you know you can get a job because I know that we have some openings in like surgery and trauma. And I was like, Yeah, sure. You know, like it's not going to hurt anything. And so like she reached out to him for me and then he like called me because he had my phone number from when I pestered him about rotations and he was like, Hey, you know, she told me that you were interested in this job. Did you still... Did you want to apply? And I'm like, Absolutely. You know, like I'm a new grad. Of course I want to apply. And so I sent him my resume. I applied and then he called me in like the next week for a face-to-face interview and it was very like, you know, pretty just kind of lacks and chill because I already knew the system. I already knew the hospital. So it was just really getting me information on what the job entailed and what I would be expected to do. I went to two other kind of in-person shadowing interviews at the job. Realized like, Yeah, this is dope. I really like it at the time I was applying for general surgery, but the teams were in the process of emerging to acute care surgery. And so in that, I knew that I would be cross-training with trauma, but I thought I would be doing that maybe six months down the line, not once I actually started, but once I started, I was right there in the trauma bay. I'm learning about traumas, learning how to run traumas. And so I got hired in February. I didn't start working until April because of prudentialing. I was right in the trauma bay come, you know, April throughout the rest of my time and I've been a trauma slash acute care surgery PA ever since. So that is exactly how I got into trauma and I got my job. I built the bridges. I built relationships. I wasn't a jerk because some of times, you know, there are PA students that go on these rotations. You think you know it all. You're not there to learn. You're not there to listen. You're just kind of there to check off a box. And, you know, that's not necessarily what a preceptor wants to see. I showed that I was eager to learn and I ensured that I kept these relationships on every rotation that I left. I made sure that I sent a thank you card and dropped off like a little gift to them, like be it some like donuts or cookies or something. Obviously, this was like pre COVID times, but I did that just to ensure that they realized like, Hey, I really appreciate them taking the time out to teach me and help me learn what their specialty was all about. And I think those little minute things really count. I think it's important for you to ensure that you're making these connections so that you're memorable because really and truly like so many students are passing through. So you want to make sure that you're one of the memorable ones. So that is what I did. That's how I got my job. I will be doing like kind of like a day in the life of a trauma PA in the upcoming weeks. I've, you know, filmed some stuff about that already. And so I'll be like putting that video together for you guys. So stay tuned for that. You'll see exactly, you know, like me talking about exactly what I'm doing throughout the day. So hopefully you guys will like that. The only way that you'll know when that video comes out is if you hit that subscribe button. So go ahead and do that for me. Thank you guys so much for watching again. Stay tuned for the other giveaways. They will always be at the end of the month. So ensure that you're coming back for that. Please, you guys check out get that's the University. We have a lot to offer some virtual shadowing stuff. Consultation sessions, personal statement reviews. You, you, you got it. We got it for you. Okay. So go on over to get that to the university dot com right now and check us out. Leave a comment in the comment session below on what you might want to see and please follow me on Instagram at it on the PA. Thank you guys so much for watching. I will talk to you guys next time. Bye.