 What's up you guys, it's Adana. Welcome back to my channel. So guys, I have a nice little treat for you. It is PA Q&A. Today I'm going to be answering one of you guys's questions live right now, but I'm gonna request for you guys. If you have not already done so, go ahead right now and subscribe to my channel. Just do that for me. I would really, really appreciate it. Thank you. All right, so now that we've gotten that out of the way, I have a question for you guys. I'm one of you guys asked this, and I'm going to answer it. I am interested in both pediatric and mental health. Can I do rotations in just those, or are you required to do rotations in every specialty? So as PAs, we are trained in kind of every specialty. I guess you can say we are generalists. We're supposed to be able to go out there and know pretty much like the basics of medicine. You know the basics of every field, I guess you could say. And then once you specialize, or if you so choose to specialize, then you become super, super proficient at that particular field. Or you become really, really proficient at understanding like what's going on with that particular patient in the basic field of medicine, like primary care or emergency medicine. So yes, to answer your question, you can do rotations in mental health and pediatric health. And for the most part, you're going to be required to do rotations at most schools that you get into in those particular specialties because they're part of our core rotations. But you also have to do rotations in other fields as well. It's not to say that you will necessarily choose that field. But although you may go in and be like, oh, I want to be a pediatric PA or mental health, like a behavioral medicine PA, that's not necessarily what you're going to want after you've gone through all of the rotations. You might change your mind. That has happened before. Although you usually tend to kind of stick with what you wanted in the first place. You're just kind of even more excited about the field that you thought you were interested in. It's always good to keep an open mind because, like I said, we're supposed to be generalists. So you know, what if you can't get into a pediatric clinic at that point in time or a pediatric practice? Maybe you can start at like a primary care or urgent care or family practice where you'll see everything, but you'll also see that particular specialty that you're interested in. And you're going to be trained well enough to practice in that particular specialty. So that is the beauty of being a PA. You're trained as generalists. You'll kind of be, you know, knowing all of the different things that are going on in every field. But then once you decide to specialize, then you will be extremely proficient at that field. But you do have to rotate in every specialty that your particular school or program requires. And it's usually women's health, emergency medicine, general surgery, primary care, inpatient medicine, family practice or, well, I said primary care, so pediatric medicine and behavioral health. Those are usually the ones that the seven kind of core rotations that each PA student has to go through. And then you choose your electives. Hope that answered your question. And if you have any other questions for me, please go ahead and leave them in the comment section below. And again, follow me on Instagram at AdanaThePA. I will talk to you guys next time. Bye.