 You guys so I'm pretty excited to share this amazingly crazy cool news with you I cannot wait to tell you what just happened yesterday if you haven't heard Then you might want to pay attention to what I'm about to say next Okay, so I'm really excited you guys because there's been some great like pretty big news that's been happening in the PA Scope of things and so if you're new to my channel, and you don't know I'm a PA I make PA related videos. What does the PA stand for that is what we're gonna be talking about in today's video If you like what you see after you take a look around go ahead and subscribe and follow me on Instagram edit on the PA Okay, alright, so this is the time when we go to a PA and if you don't know what a PA is it is our like national PA conference and During a PA there are a lot of various different Motions being ruled upon and voted into like existence and all of these different like edicts and things like that right so this is where our governing body and Kind of the leaders of the PA profession go and they kind of make decisions on what we're gonna be all about moving forward And one such decision is the PA name change Now many of you have been asking me questions about the PA name change is the PA name gonna change What does that mean for us? And you know, I honestly didn't know because we were voting on this we were getting sent various different kinds of like Surveys on what name we liked which name sounds best there are names like medical practitioner physician associate There was some other like random names as well But there were like three that were kind of being kicked around on what we were gonna choose and this past Monday all this is what happened. So the PA Name was changed to physician associate Yes, my PA no longer stands for physician assistant. It stands for physician associate So now a lot of you are like well that doesn't mean anything. Okay, whatever. You're still a PA And I mean I am Hashtagging still a PA all over the place because yes, I am still a PA and my job You know like Description I guess you can say in terms of what I do in my day-to-day work does not change But you guys being a physician associate as opposed to a physician assistant is big and let me tell you why so there are a lot of things that you have to think about when you see A name like what's in a name, right? You know your parents give you these names and they give you the names with Meanings behind them with the hopes of you kind of fulfilling some of these meanings. Sometimes they think oh, it just sounds right But names have meaning and being of PA a physician assistant When my patients come in and they see me, you know, I always introduce myself as a PA That's kind of been the push that a PA has been having us do for the past couple years They've really moved away from using physician assistant in all of their various different literature It's been PA and I think that's in part because they wanted this change to happen That's just my two cents, but you know, I think that that's how it went. However in my day-to-day work I'm like, hey, my name is Zidane. I'm the PA that's gonna be seeing you today And you go about that way, so that's not gonna change But I have a little name tag and underneath my little name tag It says physician assistant and when somebody looks at that and they see assistant There is a connotation that goes with that sometimes negative You know sometimes it doesn't even really matter to them but when you think of an assistant you think of Like somebody that is mediocre I guess you could say or not the boss and not the person that is actually directing your care or not the person that you really want to speak to you want to speak to their head and that gives a little bit of Kind of a negative connotation on the PA profession and PAs in general and what we do is practitioners So when you go to associate, it's different. There's a different ring to it There's a different feel you feel like a new person and I just want to tell you exactly why let me go ahead and Read this for you. So I wanted to talk about Specifically assistant and what that meant in terms of The definition of the word assistant and then the definition of the word associate and you can see like the various different nuances, okay? So when we go to Assistant it says a person who ranks below a senior person. Okay a person who helps in particular work So, yeah, we are physician assistants. We do help the the physician in particular work And yeah, we do rank below them, you know, they are attendings But at the same time there are some negative connotations that those various different terms when kicked around can be taken from that and It doesn't necessarily mean that you feel bad about where you're at and your status But maybe there are like some attendings who are like, oh, you're just the assistant and they don't appreciate what you do But again, let's look at the word associate. Okay So When it says comes to associate it says a partner or colleague in business or at work and I think that Absolutely epitomizes who we are as PA's we are partners with our attendings. We collaborate them We are their colleagues They talk to us my attendings like there are some of them that actually like say, well, what do you think Adano? What do you think what medication do you think they should go home on? What antibiotics do you want to send them home on and like it makes me feel good because they're actually Asking my opinion on something. This is not just them directing me to just do this that and the other They are collaborating with me and we're making these decisions together you guys And so this epitomizes who we are as practitioners and who we will be moving forward And so I know that this is gonna take a lot of you. I didn't getting used to Thank God. I didn't put Adana the physician assistant on any of my My like white coat My name it was another PA and I'm happy about that because now we've made this change And I don't really have to do too much rebranding. So that is great I'm happy about that But I'm really just happy about the future and what that looks like and the possibilities that we have moving forward because this is gonna take Some years for it to really set in I think in terms of the old guard Getting in with the new guard, right? And I think as we move with like all of these new residents that are coming in med students that are coming in as they See what PAs do how we collaborate them how we make Lives easier because like some of the things that they may not have time to do we're able to do I think it will be great. So the future is bright for the physician associate profession you guys I'm really excited about that. We are now called physician associates. I am still it on the PA I am still a PA. I still love my job. It's still the number one job in the United States And I'm excited about what is in store for us So if you didn't know about this now, you know, you heard it from me You can go look up some of this information Just kind of type it in in various different places and Google you'll find it You can also go check out a pa.org because that is where all of these news on what the PA profession The new laws and things that are going into effect in the next coming years are being made. All right Thank you guys so much for watching. If you have any other questions for me Please leave them in the comment section below Don't forget to subscribe to my channel and follow me on Instagram at it on the PA and on Instagram and get that See University because we are still helping you get that see it's just physician associate certified now So go check us out and get that see University comm and I will talk to you guys next time