 What's up you guys it's Adana welcome back to my channel so I get these questions about like health care experience and patient care experience and you know your virtual shadowing versus shadowing and just basically your experiences that are needed for CASPA because when you're applying to PA school you need experiences mainly direct patient care experience and so it was asked do these hours ever expire and so that's what we're going to be answering in today's video. All right what's up you guys so I have this question posed for me and I think it's a really relevant question because honestly it is pretty important you want to know if the hours that you are getting if the hours you've gotten in the past will ever expire and so this was asked by Andrew Perez and Andrew asked great video Adana I'm a pre-PA student and all of your videos have helped a lot oh thank you I've reached that I was wondering if patient care hours expire I fall into the late 20s range and was an EMT for five years before returning to school I'm no longer an EMT but neither me or my advisors know if those five years can count towards my patient care hours thank you well thanks for taking all the time to keep us informed you are very welcomed Andrew and so like I said I believe that this is a very very relevant question it is important and from all the research that I've done the answers point to the fact that they it's like it's murky they don't expire but they do expire okay and so to just help clear that up I want to share my screen with you guys and I will show you exactly what I mean by it's a little bit murky I've gone to it's going to pop up on the screen like to my left you guys is right but I've gone to CASPA's website so if you haven't gone to CASPA ever in your life you need to because this is where you're going to be applying to most of the PA schools most of the PA schools in the US are like they participate with CASPA okay so you have to put your application through CASPA and then you will send them to the various different schools CASPA has a frequently asked question section you can navigate through that I literally just googled CASPA in Google and then I went down to their frequently asked section and then when you get there you kind of just go down to filling out your CASPA application and here you will go to supporting information because that is all of the additional information that you will need you will then click on experiences and then it gives you an overview of the various different experiences what they mean what they count for some examples of those experiences and how to enter them but I just wanted to go down to this part right here where it says note that each that since each program's definition and requirements vary CASPA has no specific preferences as to which category you choose now this is for all of your different experiences and as I go down here you can have non-health care experience research volunteer patient care experience and health care experience as well as shadowing okay this is where like your virtual shadowing that you would get through the get that C university virtual shadowing program that will be launching soon that's where you would put that information in okay so once you've gone through and you've seen what your actual experiences that you're going to enter in then you can go back in there and make all of like the specific necessary adjustments okay it says these categories are broadly based on feedback from various physician assistant programs and are not a comprehensive list of every type of experience so they want to be clear that you can have other various different types of experiences okay that may not fall on the list that they've provided says if you have any questions I'm jumping down to the next paragraph if you have any questions about your experiences fill fulfilling an individual programs prerequisite requirements contact that program directly and I mean obviously this is a little bit of like I'm just covering myself but it's true I tell you guys this all the time like you can't just take my word from it for it okay I'm just a girl on YouTube talking about my experiences that I've had and some of the research that I've done but you have to do your own research to ensure that you are getting the most up-to-date information you come to me you do some research you you know you subscribe to my channel you see okay this is what Adana says but go and verify this okay verify this information with the school and then just with our governing bodies so if you have any questions specifically about that go to the school but this is where Andrew your question is answered it says although you can enter any experiences that you believe are relevant to your application we recommend focusing on those experiences within the last 10 years and at the collegiate level and above enter only current and in progress experiences not planned experiences and check your programs require requirements regarding documentation okay so that is that all right you know you guys you you just heard it right there they said that it's not that it's a requirement per se but they suggest that you do this within the last 10 years which makes sense okay a lot of your actual prerequisite requirements in terms of the academic work those like science courses they expire at a max of 10 years and so keeping that in mind it would be like it would be essential and it would behoove you to actually allow your patient care experiences to kind of cover that same span now this does not mean that you cannot enter it in because I'm a big big believer in putting the information on there because you have the space to do it so put the information in there and let the programs decide if you meet those all if all of those hours meet the requirements okay for you what you can do to just ensure that you're at least hitting the bar is ensure that okay if I did these courses five years ago or if I did them fit some of them 15 years or get or have some of these hours but they span into the 10 year mark like some may have been like within seven years some may have been within 10 some may have been within 15 put all of them but know that when you're counting it just just to be on the safe side you're counting only from those that are 10 years and above and then you can see generally speaking how many hours you have and then from that you can say okay well overall I may have like 20,000 hours of health care experience but within the last 10 years I have you know 8,000 or I have 12,000 and then you'll see exactly where you can line up with these programs but again verify verify verify call the programs ask them if they have any requirements on if these hours expire or not and if they don't you're good to go all right hopefully this answered your question continue to leave me questions in the comment section you guys I read them I comment on them I make videos with them and it really helps out in terms of me getting more content out to you guys please subscribe to my channel it helps my youtube algorithm out a lot a lot as I'm able to continue to make these videos for you the more you subscribe the more you like the more I'm able to put out more content because youtube will promote my video to others that aren't subscribed okay follow me on instagram and on the PA do the same for Get That See University on instagram at Get That See University and check 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