All kinds of articles on what our experience was like being PA students
Hospital Rotations Begin: Inpatient Medicine - Day 1
I’ve been hearing forever about hospital rotations, but today I finally started my first one: inpatient medicine. Inpatient Hospital Rotation For the last year I’ve worked in clinic settings learning the ins and outs of outpatient primary care. But for the next two weeks I will be learning about inpatient medicine, […]
Program Update: Fall Finals, Year 2
Hi, all. Rather than go a week without any posts, I thought I'd drop a line to give the skinny on the recent program and site developments. Hopefully this will tide you over until next week, when I have new posts planned: This week we have Fall Year 2 finals. Wednesday is an exam on [...]
One Week’s Worth of Patients
Tomorrow I check out of physician assistant school year one, which means I need to present all my notes from patients, preceptor evaluations, etc. to show that I’ve met my PA program’s clinic requirements. […]
My First Laceration Sutures
Today I did my first laceration sutures! I wondered for a long time just how anyone ever gets to put sutures in without prior experience. Medical school is famous for its education model of see one, do one, teach one - which medical students joke about being see one, screw one, do one. Though I've [...]
White Coat Ceremony 2011
If you've been reading Inside PA Training for a while, you'll remember that I received my white coat ceremony just a year ago. My white coat came as part of the very first white coat ceremony at UC Davis School of Medicine's FNP/PPA program. The event was organized and funded by the class ahead of [...]
Year Two Summer Program Update
I thought it was time for a brief update of our program activities. We’ve now been PA students for 14 months, and we’ll be done in only 9 more. Our first year flew by, and was dominated by lecture, study, and exams (both computerized written exams and oral practica with flesh-and-blood standardized patients). […]