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Reintroduction! @emory_pas ✨Student Spotlight✨ from Fall 2023 Name: Shawna Seth Hometown: San Francisco, CA Undergrad School and Degree: Vassar College, Sociology What did you do for PCE? I was an acupuncturist and had my own practice for seve
Happy PA week! My first one as a student kicked off on Friday with our first white coat OSCE: a graded exercise involving a simulated clinical visit in a room that looks just like a medical office. . This one was for the first half of a comprehensiv
Wishing upon Lord Dooley for good anatomy luck as we head into our first big exam Monday🤞🏽☠️💙💛
First anatomy demo ✅ (no cadaver pictures!) The group A dissectors are done with 1/4 of our dissections! We tackled the thorax, lungs, and abdominal wall (including the inguinal canal) in 1 week 🤯 Had no idea I could dissect, learn about, and presen
This time last year I was watching @emory_pas post pictures and videos of the class of ‘24 on their first day and wondering if it might be my turn next year. If that’s you this year (or a future year), please don’t be a stranger! Th
First day as a PA-S! ✔️ @emory_pas was definitely the #bestdecisionever We’re such a great group of people and I cannot wait to discover all the things we’re going to mean to each other. Thanks to everyone who helped me get here, remindin
PA school starts in 1 week! I moved to Georgia in early June with my husband and our puppy Bastien and we’re starting to feel settled. We drove cross country over 6 days and waited 2.5 weeks for our moving truck 🫠. While we camped out in the h
Hands on learning starts now! @emory_pas open house for admitted students was just what I needed to get super excited about all we’re going to get to learn and do. In addition to meeting my future classmates (so many awesome people!), we all go
PA school reveal: I’m going to Emory! From the beginning I had a feeling about this program. Can’t wait for the program open house this weekend! Wish us luck as we search for our new home in Atlanta. . • Kept coming up as a school at
Medical scribing in primary care: . I didn’t need more PCE (patient care experience) or HCE (health care experience) for PA school as I had thousands of hours working as a licensed acupuncturist. However, I thought it might help me bridge my wo
Call to Action for Acupuncture Students and Acupuncturists: Please share widely! TLDR; If you’re unsure how to offer support beyond donating money to shooting victims funds, or you’re new to activism and don’t know where to start,
I’m often asked for book recommendations by people who have experienced acupuncture or by other medical providers who are curious to learn more about East Asian medicine. Now that I’m done with my PA applications and prereq courses, I am
Interview week! 2+ years after starting on the PA path, I interviewed today with my first program (virtually). Format: These interview slots were short! Two 1:1 interviews and one 20 minute group discussion. In each of the 1:1 interviews, I was aske
Which one hits home for you? @harrisonreedpa has some advice I want to share beyond the PA community. These "rules" apply past an application cycle. I kept them close when writing my essays and come back to them to stay focused in the
I finished my last planned prerequisite for PA school earlier this month! 8 classes + GRE was an ambitious plan when I set it in mid 2020, quickly realizing I wouldn’t make it by application season spring 2021 because studying at home was not t
About those comments by the Pope, which seem to have struck deeper than I expected they would. We adopted a dog a few months after our final IVF cycle failed bc I knew I needed a pet to get through the grief. Cat or dog didn’t matter to me, tho
This feels like eons ago now. I closed my practice at the end of February ‘20 with a plan to go back to complete my clinical doctorate (something that wasn’t available when I got my masters in acupuncture). . It would have been part time,