 you guys show day today I know I didn't put out a video earlier but this serving as that video I want to go live with you all and talk to you all about all about what exactly I'm doing so I am here in beautiful New Orleans if you guys can see the background we are at the APA conference it is in New Orleans this year put that for you guys also I can show you my badge that's me hi fancy Nancy and so these are all of the little tabs you can put on for your APA badge but I'm here in New Orleans just kind of having a good time it actually feels really good earlier it felt kind of like humid and warm but it's nice now there's a really nice crosswind and I've just been taking the site but I've also been at the conference and so for those of you who don't know what the conference is about this is an opportunity for the pre like PE students and the PAs that are currently in the profession to meet and greet with each other but also the PAs can at these different conferences there are different sessions going on hi Elijah there are different sessions going on where you're able to do your CME because you have to have a certain amount of CME hours each year which is continue your medical education as a PA so the PAs can fulfill that at APA and then as a PA student myself I'm able to go to all these different spark sessions where I'll learn information about like kind of surviving clinical year which is really big for me because I am a newly mingted PAs too you guys that means I finished my first year of PA school and I'm going on to clinical years so it's very important for me to understand you know how to transition from that didactic year of learning and now go into clinical year of learning and this that's something that they do here as well thank you so much I don't know could you spell could you say how to pronounce your name I think it is just phonetically because you know I don't want to butcher it but I think it was I hope so anyway but thank you guys yeah it's you know it was a long road a really long process look at me I'm kind of that okay I got am I saying right I think I said it right thank you but it was a long process but you know I made it I'm here and I'm able to now kind of to see where I could possibly be in the future by looking at some of these future PAs that have been some of these PAs that have been in the game for a long time thank you so much the PA handyman thanks you want to start your YouTube channel as well on your journey where are you at with respect to your PA school journey are you currently in PA school or your pre-PA student or you know where are you at but you know with respect to YouTube and starting a channel it's just about doing it you just have to kind of do it but yes so I've done these sessions and it's been pretty pretty good hi M8 MD your PA how are you first-year undergrad okay well yeah you know um now's a good time first-year undergrad you can talk about that whole process of like figuring out the whole prerequisites and all of that that's pretty well that those are really good stats so definitely go ahead and try and work something out with respect to that but yeah as far as the conference itself so I have been going to different spark sessions I went to surviving clinical year and I also went to like an emergency medicine one they were very very informative really really good information and I think it's so so so important to understand that you should be prepared you know I'm going into my emergency medicine it's gonna be my first rotation and so getting this information from these well seasoned PA's was very very informative and really essential to me oh I'm the goat okay thank you I appreciate I'm really humbled by that thank you I don't think so but I do appreciate that you know I'm just trying to help you guys out and just document my journey thank you Grant thank you so much applying you're trying to apply this fall I wish you many blessings with that I'm applying this fall but so after those look oh look look at you guys it's up there in the background and to the background hi baby yo she's gonna have a bomb vlog coming for you guys yes we got a very very bomb vlog New Orleans you're gonna love it but yeah apart from those sessions there's also a general session that you go to Elijah what's up and there's also different things that you can pay for like to learn how to teacher and those things like that so it's very it's very it's pretty cool actually and if you guys ever want to attend a conference go on over to a pay it out or our next conference is gonna be in Denver so excited about that and I believe the following conference is gonna be in Nashville and it happens annually so definitely look into that because it's something that you should at least do at one point or time in your EA like career I guess you can see and they do welcome other professors as well physicians and then these are welcome to the conference you would just have a different badge like I have the student badge with my little student in there but you would have whatever your badge whatever your thing is you two little boys let me see if I can see that this is you two little boys how do you do it I do it with the help of aunt and helps me out a whole lot you know having the two girls a lot of like oh guilt that I'm not giving them enough time but you know you're doing this for them as well it's not just for you but it's also for the betterment of your family and it's only for a short period of time you know one year really studying at minimum and then definitely continuing that studying through clinical year but you have a little bit more time to give them in that year so I think it's a good trade-off honestly for a better life spending a little bit of two years out of your life you know studying in me feeling a little bit of guilt I think that that's generally okay and I guess maybe that's what I'm telling myself so I feel good but that's kind of how I do it I have a great support system great vlog coming out about my experience here just meeting all of these different PAs that have been in the game for a minute you know PAs that are in positions of leadership and just networking with them it's been such an amazing experience and I'm so grateful that I was able to do it I wanted to come on and say hey you guys really really quickly and just say thank you guys so much for following me on this journey I don't like I can't believe it y'all we've been on this journey for like a year now I'm in my second year you guys have been with me for a year and it just seemed like it flew by so I just want to say thank you guys for doing that and I will see you guys next week with the vlog hopefully you guys love it and appreciate it and I'll come back and oh guys and I got to interview