 All right, what's up, you guys? I'm just checking some stuff out here, kind of getting to the website, because we're gonna be looking at Loma Linda today. So I hope you guys are ready, because I know that some of you asked for some West Coast schools. And so this is one of the schools that I can do for you guys. So that's what's happening right now. So I'm gonna be doing Loma Linda, okay? So let's see, we'll wait for some of you to get on and see what we can do. So if you are new and you haven't seen any of the other like broadcasts that I've done on the other schools that we've just researched like what I'm doing with this series, which also continues on to get that C University is I'm looking at the various different schools that you guys are interested in. And eventually I will get through all of the PA programs. That is my goal. And there's over like 300 of these programs, but I wanna do a school a week. So that's a few years of schools. Maybe I can up that so that in essence, you guys will be able to get all of the schools within the year to see if anything has changed or not. Okay? So that is essentially what my plan is. That is what I'm trying to do. And we'll see. So far you guys have liked it. And so we're gonna continue to do these, these various different schools. And you just need to continue to leave your comments in the comments section to let me know what schools you wanna see next, okay? So let's get to it. So I wanna spend too much time on this intro. Let me share my screen with you guys so that you can see what I'm looking at. And then we can go from there. All right. Okay. So here we have it. This is Loma Linda University's School of Allied Health Professions. And this is their PA program. Loma Linda is in California. So if you are interested in going to schools in California or in the West Coast, this is a program for you. And this is one that you should take a look at. They have a nice little welcome here, which is cool. Catherine Ahms. She is the department chair. And Courtney Marquez is the program director. Okay. Two women, women led program. That is cool. I think who was it? Morehouse, I believe had a program director that was a female as well, which is nice. It's nice to see. All right. Let's go into the information. Let's just see what this is talking about here. Again, a mission, okay. And their program inner overview and information about the program. And so I think it's always important, like I said, for anybody that is interested in going to any of these PA programs, it is important for you to go and look and see what the program's mission statement is and what their goals are. So Loma Linda's mission says that they are a PA program that educates primary care physician assistants who will provide healthcare in collaboration with physicians as active members of a professional healthcare team. We are committed to excellence and compassion for the whole person in quality healthcare for underserved communities locally and globally in accordance with the mission of Loma Linda University and the School of Allied Health Professions. All right, so that's cool. They have a national and international kind of reach that they're trying to do, but also it talks about collaboration. So keeping in ties with what like the PA profession as a whole kind of the verbiage and the language that we use. No longer really calling ourselves like dependent providers, but we're collaborative providers. We collaborate with physicians. So for sure, if you are doing any interviews or things like that, make sure that you're using those kind of phrases about collaboration versus dependent and independent providers. And their focus is primary care. And they also said underserved, which a lot of schools have that same kind of like focus, I guess you could say, or mission. All right, let me make sure that you guys can see this part. Let's see, where am I here? So it keeps, let me, this is, all right. So let's figure this out because what is happening right now is it keeps jumping to a new top. So I don't wanna keep streaming each specific thing. So maybe I should do this and let's go to, do information. And this is where the mission is. I don't know why it just opens a new tab every time I do that, but that's gonna kind of get annoying for this stream, I feel that every time it opens a new tab as opposed to staying in the same tab. But we're gonna get this thing together, okay? So, which one is this? All right, so the admissions, this is kind of where we wanna be anyways. Let me see, Jose asked a question. No, Joseph, sorry, Joseph asked question, will he be doing Q and A live stream at all? A Q and A specifically on anything about PA school, just in general, like a random Q and A, or a Q and A with respect to these schools. Let me know and then I can answer that specifically, but sure, I don't have a problem doing Q and A's, those are fun. I just need to know what you kinda wanna hear or see or what questions you have and then we can go from there, okay? So this is their admissions, like statistics, so their current class of 2022, number of applicants, look at this, you guys, 2,415 applicants. And they only, so they, from the 2, the 2,400 applicants that applied, half of them, a little less than half of them got supplemental applications, meaning a bunch of them were weeded out, okay? And then less than half got supplementals. And then like, my goodness, what is that like 10% of those applicants got interviews and they had 38 acceptances. So I don't know, we'll have to look and see what their class size can be. It's probably, it could probably be 40 since there's 38. So there's probably about 40 seats and maybe some chose to go to another school even though they were offered an acceptance. And you know, one thing I would like to ask schools is, even if somebody else like chooses to go to another program, rather than not accepting anyone else or putting people on, you know, having like someone off of a wait list be placed into that spot, why just leave the class open? Like, why just leave that seat open? Cause that would be nice to know. Wow, okay. So just like the PA profession, 29 of their, their acceptances were female and nine were male. So heavily a female dominant profession, the PA profession is, but it kind of shows here at this particular program. And the average age was 27, average overall GPA 3.5, overall science GPA 3.5, and patient care hours 4,300. And so these are the things, these are the numbers that I keep talking to you guys about because, you know, at the end of the day, a lot of you all, like you come to me and we do these various different, you know, consultation sessions, mock interviews and all that stuff. And then you ask me questions about like patient care hours and I go over them with you. And you're like, when I ask like, how many patient care hours do you have? And you tell me like 500 or 1000 or 2000. And then we're looking at some of the programs that you're interested in. And those programs patient care experience hours are like 4,300, like it shows here for Loma Linda. You know, that's where it's not really like a red flag, but that's something that should click in your mind like, yo, I need to make sure that if I don't have these 4,300 hours or, you know, close to that, that my GPA is like a 3.8, 3.9 for these overall and science GPAs because I need to be killing it in these other areas to actually like have this thing kind of worthwhile. Okay. So that's just important for you guys to think about when you're applying to PA school. There's like strategy behind this. I trust me there is. And just as long as you can, you know, pinpoint the areas that schools are looking for or the things that you can offer a school that they're looking for and magnify that, you know, it's highly likely that you will get an interview and then the rest is up to you for the acceptance. Okay. So we don't need to do technical standards and things like that. Like obviously all of those that kind of pretty much stays the same. Physician assistant requirements. Let's see what they're talking about here. Hey, nice looking class. I don't know if this is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. So this can't be the class of 2022 because they only had nine males and this class has quite a few males. So this definitely can't be that class. I don't know what class this is, but anyways. Bachelor's degree is what's required. Okay. So let's get into that. You need a bachelor's degree to apply to the majority of PA schools. As I've stated before, there are some schools that have like direct entry where you can go straight from high school into a PA program because they'll do a dual undergrad and graduate degree for you, but the majority of schools require a bachelor's degree. Okay. From a regionally accredited institution in the United States. All right. That's what that says. I did see something about international students. So we'll go to that shortly, but right now this is saying in the United States, degree must be received by December 2021 for 2022. So obviously for the following year, for like a 2023 start, you would need to have completed your degree by December of 2022, okay? Minimum GPA, so let's load this. Minimum GPA is a 3.0, but as you notice, what we saw was the average GPA was 3.58 and 3.56 for accumulative and science GPA respectively. So it is important to keep in mind that minimum's not really gonna cut it. You just need to be above average, above that minimum GPA. Pre-requisite coursework, okay. Acceptable prerequisite courses, listing, link to, there's a PDF document. I don't see that. Allied Health Transfer Patterns. So I don't see the link here, but okay, that's, it doesn't matter. And so sciences will allow, the Loma Linda PA program will allow for three total outstanding prerequisite courses at the time of completion of application with two, a maximum of two science courses. So you can have three outstanding prerequisites and only two can be sciences, okay? So that's cool because like some schools only allow you one and some schools allow you none. And we've seen that in the past reviews. So if you are trying to get in, like right out of undergrad, this might be a program that could lend a little bit better to that because you can have two outstanding science courses for your prerequisites. So let's see what the science courses are. So A&P, general chemistry, micro one year with on-campus or organic for, you can do organic and biochemistry. General micro must cover the four medical important areas, vector, your advice. Okay, great. Please note, C minus grades are not accepted, okay? Science courses must be for science majors and include on-campus or hybrid laboratory components. At least 50% of the lab must be on-campus. And it is required that all prerequisite science courses have been taken within the last 10 years. 10 years is their cap, okay? And it doesn't show that many prerequisites for them. So it's literally just anatomy and physiology, general chemistry or you can have this series of inorganic and organic and biochemistry and then microbiology. So that's really just like three science courses that they're asking for. There are gen ed prerequisites like psychology, sociology, obviously a math algebra is what they're requiring. Some other schools require statistics. So if you took stats that you didn't take algebra and you want to apply to this school, this might, you know, you might have to take algebra but statistics in English and then recommended courses. Yeah, conversational Spanish. I remember, so I was looking at applying to Loma Linda a few years back when I was applying to PA school and I remember seeing Spanish as one of the kind of recommended courses and that is kind of what prompted me a little bit more to be like, man, you know, like I really need to learn Spanish because if I'm gonna be working in the healthcare field, you know, it's just gonna be something that would be beneficial. So stats, medical terminology and conversational Spanish, not required, you guys, just keep that in mind, not required, but definitely recommended, patient care experience. So their average that they want, their minimum is 2000 hours, okay? And that has to be completed before matriculation, okay? The August prior to matriculation. So that being said, 2000 hours is the minimum of 4,300 was the average that students get. So I would be shooting for like 3,000, 3,500, 4,000, somewhere up there because you wanna be close to what their average is, okay? Examples of accepted clinical experience. I love when they show this because it makes it easy for my pre-PA students. You guys can go ahead and just be like, all right, let me try to be an EMT or, you know, well, not necessarily physical therapists or anything like that because that's a DPT, respiratory therapists, occupational therapists, MAs. So administrative stuff is not accepted, but if you're doing hands-on, you know, phlebotomy, drawing, you know, doing testing, that's accepted scribe as accepted chiropractor. Now, obviously this is not an all-encompassing list, but there you go, you have it. Let me see, Chris had a question or made a statement. When schools state their mission is preparing clinicians for primary care, does that hurt applicants who express interest in other specialties? That's a really good question. And no, it doesn't necessarily hurt you if you wanna be in a surgical subspecialty or if you wanna be in PEDES or anything like that. I think just in general, the majority of programs will say primary care, you know? It's like, it's just a thing because we're trained as generalists and the primary care field is kind of like losing all of their primary care providers because, you know, boomers are retiring. So training us to be able to kind of help lift that load is what's important. And so that is why a lot of these schools have an emphasis on primary care and then also the underserved. But no, if you don't wanna work necessarily in primary care, that doesn't mean that, you know, you're not gonna get into school, but definitely if you do wanna be in primary care and that is your passion and you can express that and be honest about it, I think it would only help your chances. And Andrea or Andrea says, so I volunteered at Loma Linda now with patients. Does that count as patient care experience? And as well, Andrea, so it's a matter of like, what do you mean by volunteer? Because in that list, like how are you helping the patients? How are you directing that patient's care? Are you doing vital signs? Are you, you know, taking swabs? Are you like helping to collect tests? Like what exactly is it that you're doing because a lot of the direct patient care experience that most schools are looking for are things where you not are just like, oh, talking to a patient or of helping feed them, but you're actually active in part of their care from a clinical standpoint. You know, obviously being a scribe is kind of like the outlier to that, but if you saw the list of various different things that they had for acceptable clinical experiences, all of these things being a nurse, a radiology tech, physical therapy, physical therapist, respiratory therapist, you're actually like heavily involved in the patient's care. So that is something, I don't know what kind of volunteering you're doing, but my suspicion is that it would not count towards their direct patient care experience. Examples of clinical experience is not accepted, okay? Volunteer, look, here we go, volunteer service. So that's, volunteering is not even accepted. Being an MA that you're doing like administrative stuff or billing, encoding, massage therapist, being a home health aide, which I actually did early on, and then I had to like go and like try to get my CNA to actually get like direct hands-on stuff because even as an aide though, like I was, you know, helping feed, I was like taking the Foley off, like not an indwelling Foley with a condom calf and changing, cleaning, doing all of those various different things, assisting with BAPS, but clearly that doesn't count, okay? Pharmacy tech, shadowing, research without direct patient care contact, excuse me, hours received during training programs. So if you go to like an MA school or if you do medical school, nursing school and you do, you get patient care experience in those training programs, you cannot use those towards your direct patient care experience and then hours received outside of the United States, okay? So there you have it, they answered it for you. You're gonna need letters of recommendation again, which can be done through CASPA, can't be from a friend or relative, has to, and can't be from shadowing experience, has to be from somebody who you've had, who you've worked directly under and they've worked with you hands-on and have had patient care experience with them. So an MD, PA or a DO, probably an NP as well would kind of work. Other requirements, all applicants must meet, admission, technical and graduation standards while enrolled at Loma Linda. If you are in visual disability, okay, Dean of Affairs only through student's voluntary disclosure, all right? So if you have a disability, you should absolutely disclose it so you can get the necessary assistance that you would need should you need it to complete the program. So that's all that's saying. And then there's health screenings. So I just talked about this, all vaccine policies are developed in accordance with current guidelines. And I just did a video about like being vaccinated and like my thoughts on it and how, hey, like as a student, there were certain vaccinations that that I didn't typically get that I had to get because I was a student and I was about to go and see patients in various different settings. And so this is their policy as well. And you can visit their website to see all the list of required vaccines vaccinations that they have for their students. And okay, and that's just where their student handbook. Okay, so that is that. Let's see what else we have. Let's see this international application thing because it's looked like there was a lot of things kind of barring that, barring that. For questions about our program, please contact us after you've reviewed all the online program information. Okay, it says international applicants, including, include those individuals who are not citizens of the United States or non-U.S. permanent residents, additionally much of the information below applies to those individuals who are U.S. citizens, but whose native language is not English and whose secondary education was given outside of the U.S. Okay, so for foreign medical grads, individuals who've graduated with a medical degree from a country outside of the United States are welcome to apply to the program but must meet the same prerequisite requirements as other applicants. Additionally, all applicants must complete all phases of the program successfully. Okay, and so great, this is fine. They, if you have a green card, you know, you're not a U.S. citizen, you're an international student, you are a citizen of another country, you can apply to Loma Linda. That's essentially what's being said. However, if you looked at some of those prerequisite requirements, if we just kind of go back to what they were talking about before, it shows that you have to have a secondary degree that has been completed in United States that are regionally accredited U.S. college or university. So don't just sit up here and you look at these schools and you're like, oh, okay, they accept international students or they accept foreign medical graduates, no, you have to go back and look at all of those prerequisite requirements because they're very specific. And these are the things that can get you tripped up when you're looking at applying to PA schools because they may say something here but then it's further explained in another section and you may just go off of the first part but you don't have the whole picture and so just be mindful of that. And that's why I'm doing this so that we can kind of tease out some of these things, okay? Patient care experience, it says direct hands-on, 2,000 hours, again, you have to have all the prerequisites. So this is just going through all of the things as a foreign student, as an international student, what you would need to still meet those requirements, okay? Accreditation. So Loma Linda's program accreditation, let's see, has granted accreditation continued. So this is good. They are not gonna be reviewed again until March, 2027. So their accreditation status is good for another six years. So you're good if you're applying to this school because you're not gonna have to be worried about, oh my gosh, like how are you gonna lose accreditation? And that's one of that, okay? Matt had a question, he said, does pharmacy technicians count for patient care? So I did not see farm techs in their list. And the hard part is that farm techs do count at some other programs, but not at others. And so like my only thing that I can tell you is to call Loma Linda if you're interested in applying to them and say, hey, will you guys accept farm techs as patient care experience? Now, like I said, there are several of the schools, some that I've already reviewed that do accept it, but to each their own, I guess you can say, like they each, every school has their own kind of thing that they do. Samantha says, you should review Samuel Merritt's PA program next. Oh, okay, thank you, Samantha, for that suggestion. I will put it on the list. I've gotten a lot of kind of requests and so I'm just gonna tease throughout all of them, okay? So we have time. All right, let's look at their faculty and their staff. Okay, so we already met Dr. Alms, right? She is the department chair and Ms. Marquez, program director. Dr. Labib, he's the medical director and typically the medical director is always a physician. Directive Education Assessment, Dr. Abdurabu, okay? So this is your director of didactic care. No, Mr. Miliron, Ms. Gisper's didactic care didactic coordinator. What else do we have here? Ms. Batala, there's a lot of females here. Wow, like I'm seeing a lot, a lot, a lot of females. Oh, okay, look at this. Dr. Wilson, he is both an MD and a PA. Let's read up on this, because this is interesting. William Wilson earned his bachelor's of science from Jackson State in 99 and is medical doctorate from the University of Kansas in 2005. He completed his master's of physician assistance in 2014 from Loma Linda in 2017. Wow, that's interesting. I wonder why he went from being a physician to being a PA. I might have to hit Dr. Wilson up to see what the deal is, because I think that's an interesting story. And then here are our staff, people that make the program. And again, lots of females, like a lot of females here. One, two, I think I saw three males and everybody else is female, which is kind of dope. I like it. All right, PA frequently asked questions. Let's see what they're talking about. Do you accept any courses and little of courses offered in your program? No, do you offer advanced placement? No, do I have need of that to typo? Do I need a bachelor's degree in order to apply? Yes, you do. When does your program start? Okay, a new class starts every September. Okay, so when they say it has to be completed by August 31st since each new class starts in September, that makes sense, okay? So you have up until like the month before matriculation to complete all of your prerequisite requirements. My GPA is the less than 0.0, what can I do? In order for your application to be accepted, you must meet our minimum requirements to improve your GPA. You can retake classes for which you received a lower grade. Note CASPA will calculate your GPA based on both the original grade and the new grade. And you know what? I like the fact that they have this here because that is, this is really important for people to know and to understand that look. Yes, there's nothing like applying with a 3.0 is not gonna cut it, well less than 3.0 is not gonna cut it if my minimum GPA requirement is a 3.0. I'm not gonna look past it because you have 20,000 direct patient care experience. There's no preferential treatment in that respect. You have to meet those minimum requirements. So retake it, retake the class but understand that CASPA does not replace it, they just average it in. And I love the fact that they make that clear. All right, my GPA from graduate level coursework is above a 3.0, but again, so it's just gonna be calculated through CASPA. My overall GPA is a 3.0, can I be considered? Yeah, so they don't do prerequisite GPA. So that's another thing. I've completed posts. Are these courses included in my GPA? Yes, they are. If I've met all requirements and prerequisites, am I guaranteed? No, you're not guaranteed. A C, I've already completed medical school. Do I have to go through your program? Yeah, you do. I've already completed medical school. Can I test out of any courses? No, you can't. I could answer these questions without looking at this. These are like, okay, I've already completed a test out. If I graduate from LLU, can I skip any of the coursework? No, you can't. All right, I completed my application. So I mean, these, you can just go through these. Like some of these are kind of common sense stuff. Let's look at their graduate outcomes to see like what students are doing. All right, so also maybe their max is, maybe they've capped it at 38 and not 40 because each class from 2018 forward has been 38 students. So maximum entering class is 38. Entering class size 36, I don't know what that means. Okay, so maybe what their max is is that they can have 38 but they've allowed 36 and they've graduated pretty much everyone. In the first few years, 2018, 2019, they didn't graduate two people, like one respectively, but our tuition rate was like still pretty low. Let's say, let's see this. This is what I like to see, let's see. All right, so their pants pass rate. So they were 97% in 2016, 92% in 2017, 2018, 97, again man, look at that. Every bad, like almost every, like almost every program did bad in 2019. Like it was a switch, a new, they added new content to the pants, they changed it around and it's reflected here in all of these pants reports. You can see this, like typically a dip and theirs was 88%. And then let me just look and see it. Then they bumped back up in 2020 at 95%. So all takers, first time takers 35, number of passed exams 33. So five didn't pass one there, two there, one and two. So overall, they're doing a pretty good job, honestly you guys, so I can't knock that. They're training you guys well out there. And then it just gives you a glance of what the pants is, which is the 300 question test, five hour exam. You take it at a, it's like a prior metric testing center, like where you would take the GRE. And yeah, it's pretty intense, but yeah, you only take it once every 10 years, so. All right, program events. So you can sign up for informational sessions. So if you're interested, there's informational sessions coming up, I guess. I don't know when it is, it doesn't say when it is, but you can register for them. And then they had their jacketing and dedication ceremonies back in September. All right, and then this right here that says, what is a PA? This is important, okay? This is important for you guys to know what a PA is. So if you are applying to PA school, know what a PA is. They have a nice little video here for you guys to watch. Let's see how long it is. So I can't tell. So I can't see how long it is, but nice video, put some work into that. Watch that, know what a PA is, know what we can do. Take histories, examine patients, order tests, prescribe medication, know all of that. Know the difference between a PA and a physician and an NP. And why specifically you wanna be a PA? Because that is important, okay? Because you can be any career that you wanna be if you put the work into it, but why specifically do you wanna come to this profession? That is important for you to know and have an answer for that, okay? All right, that's pretty much it, you guys. I don't think that there's anything else. It says nearly half of our 2015 graduates plan on working in primary care. In our most recent alumni survey, 45% of alumni were working in primary care field. So again, they are trying to get that primary care percentage up and high and promote PAs in primary care. So that's what you wanna do. This is a school for you, okay? But that's it, this was a pretty quick one. If you guys have any questions for me, you can ask them now. Also, if you want me to do another school that I haven't done already or if there's a school that you really want me to actually do, then please, please, please, I will do that. Just leave it in the comment section below. Let me stop sharing that and that's it. Okay, so if you don't have any questions, I'm gonna end it here. That was Loma Linda. I'll probably be doing one of the Florida schools next week. So I'm pretty sure it's gonna be one of the Nova schools because somebody has been asking me about that for like weeks now. So I wanna make sure that I acknowledge her and I do that Nova program. So Nova will be next, which Nova I don't know because there's quite a few of them, but one of them will be next and I'll probably just do another one later on that week on GTCU. Okay, all right. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you haven't already done so, go ahead and like this video. Follow me on Instagram and on the P.A. and on Instagram at getthatsuniversity. Thank you guys. I will talk to you guys next time. Bye.