This video is so helpful and informative!!! I'm trying to decide between MD and PA. I love the lifestyle for PA but I also like making the big decisions or at least working for physician that thinks the way I think. This helps so much. Thank you and God bless you both!
@@ttdur8102 I did but I changed my mind last minute for fear of being stuck in helper role for the rest of my life. Good news is, since then, I left travel nursing after I got a permanente job at an ICU accompanied with a hospital financed scholarship for a Bachelor degree in nursing management. Sometimes instead of getting the tings we want, we end up getting the things we need. Thanks for asking.
What he said about FNP is not true. FNP’s work across all specialties and in most states have 100 free practice freedom not needing to be checked by a MD/DO
Yeah but not solo in Neurosurgery, they certainly work in step-downs and are in the room, but FNPs don't do surgery. FNPs can practice some primary care alone(They are Family Nurse Practitioners), but it's still limited to primary care in all states. This is mostly due to the lack of primary care physicians, and their ability to do so is understood to be temporary through various "nurse practice acts" to provide relief for the lack of physicians. Many of these states also provide "temporary" licenses do so. It all SOUNDS good in theory and over the internet, but in practice it is more complicated. FNPs aren't going to be walking around hospitals practicing medicine with total autonomy and doing surgery, that's not happening.. You'll often find sole practitioners working in clinics, minute clinics, or family medicine practices, and they often have difficulty with insurance companies and reimbursements being more strict on them which makes it more difficult to actually practice without an MD/DO signing off or sitting on the phone arguing with insurance people and administrators. Finally more often than not if you want to be inside people in the hospital without going to med-school your best bet is being a PA and working with specific physicians all the time.
@@tybera1114 Nurse practitioners in my state and several others have 100% practice autonomy. Do your research, it’s extremely easy to find. FNP’s like myself most definitely can and do work in neurosurgery. They can be first assist and bill insurance as such. Just as a PA would. FNP’s work across all medical specialties, not just in primary care. Being a FNP allows you to care for any patients from birth til death anywhere along the spectrum of life. We do not need a collaborative agreement of any kind to do so. We provide better patient outcomes than our MD/DO counterparts, and you can look that up as well. Please educate yourself prior to coming online thinking you can say want you want when you have no facts to back up what you say. Everything I’m saying is easy to find with a simple google search from verified sources. It’s literally a click away. Try and run that game on someone who may not be in the field and may not know. I am in the field. It’s clear that your not a FNP nor a APRN at all or you would know all of this as it’s common knowledge. Your ignorance in the subject matter is apparent and it’s not a good look. Please inform yourself
@@rohseans I didn't say neurology, please reread. Also there are oodles of studies out now that show that FNPs and PA working independently order more needless tests and have worse patient outcomes. The positive studies from years ago assessed PAs and NPs that were working under physician supervision. r/noctor. If you want to be a physician go to medical school.
as someone with several surgeries and illnesses, these is very bothersome. why have MD if PA is going to act on being MD without all the education an MD has to go through. If i have surgery, I want a certified surgeon and one who has had lots of experience. assisting surgeon, thats fine. Seeing family practice if not trying to be a specialist is fine. I have a PA in the family doc i like that is actually a better doctor than the real doctor. so not saying all are a bad thing. not at all. Newbies, i never see personally, due to my health. but surgeries itself, I have to make sure its my actual surgeon or doctor doing it, and not a PA. And ask that no PA do my reading finals of my radiations cause they were wrong so many times, and I am pretty sure the radiology dept was allowing PA's to read them in that field vs full doctors in that field cause too many times they were wrong.
wait til you find out that medical students close sutures, also sometimes assist in surgery, as well as residents (still learning) assisting if not doing majority of the surgery depending on their year level. you'll be surprised as to how much an attending does and doesn't do lol
How did you become a PA as a white male? I made the Deans list 7 times had 2 years of medical experience in dentists offices, hospitals, nursing homes, and home healthcare facilities with a letter of recommendation from the head professor of Virology and lead researcher of Co-vid 19 in my state and couldn't even get an interview!!! Are you from a wealthy family of doctors??? I even got a 3.5 GPA and took Virology, Bacterial Infectious Diseases, and the Anatomy dissection lab during my undergrad and received a 144 credit bachelors of general studies from the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In addition to all the prerequisites, I also have published 4 books, have a stack of certifications in healthcare from a US government training program took humanities and, gender studies, and community leadership. What was it exactly that made you stand out? All the PA schools I know of only accept minorities and women that did the bare minimum!!!
so sad to hear you say this, the majority of people that get into PA schools are white women based on statistics...NOT minorities..i have no idea where you are getting your information from...PAs are 70% white with the remaining 30% made up of all other ethnicities...you are uninformed about the profession which is why you are likely not getting interviews/acceptances. Most people who get into PA school (white women) have significantly more than 2 years of clinical experience. In my class alone we had a Pathologist assistant, several EMTs, nurses, occupational therapist, Respiratory therapist, with the average health care hours being 10K..
Wow your background is crazy awesome and don’t see why you wouldn’t qualify for the program the time that you applied. Are the medical house direct patient care? If so, then yeah I don’t see why they wouldn’t accept you. Dress like Madea and you should definitely get accepted!!! Lol no I’m joking but maybe you should ask the schools that you have applied to why you wasn’t the chosen one.
You made this ignorant comment and still wonder why you’re not a PA. Especially considering that minorities make up such a small percentage in the PA career. If you didn’t get then check in with schools you applied to instead of being an entitled racist brat with a generic “this why I’m special, woe is me” backstory.
thank you so much for this video!! applying to pa school soon and I really want to be a surgical PA 😊
Good luck!!
Me too!!! Good luck!!!
How did your applications go?
Can u plz explain me the procedure and ....any link regarding this
This video is so helpful and informative!!! I'm trying to decide between MD and PA. I love the lifestyle for PA but I also like making the big decisions or at least working for physician that thinks the way I think. This helps so much. Thank you and God bless you both!
I’m on the same page w you. Did you figure it out what you want ?
@@PB-ou8lw if you care about work life balance more than prestige go for Pa
German RN here - geriatrics - and just applied to PA school in Berlin. Wisch me luck.
Did ya get in!!?? ❤
@@ttdur8102 I did but I changed my mind last minute for fear of being stuck in helper role for the rest of my life. Good news is, since then, I left travel nursing after I got a permanente job at an ICU accompanied with a hospital financed scholarship for a Bachelor degree in nursing management.
Sometimes instead of getting the tings we want, we end up getting the things we need.
Thanks for asking.
Great interview questions and great replies! Very informative!!
This was very informative and helpful!! Thank you!!
Glad it was helpful!
Great questions! Very helpful.
So glad!
Wonderful video!
Thank you very much! We hope to have more Pre-PA videos up soon!
Great video! ❤
Wow great questions!
Matt u inspire me bruh!
Great content 👍🏿😊
Which PA school did Matt go to?
Why 12 hour shifts, why not fight for 8
Because 3 12s > 5 8s
What he said about FNP is not true. FNP’s work across all specialties and in most states have 100 free practice freedom not needing to be checked by a MD/DO
Yeah but not solo in Neurosurgery, they certainly work in step-downs and are in the room, but FNPs don't do surgery. FNPs can practice some primary care alone(They are Family Nurse Practitioners), but it's still limited to primary care in all states. This is mostly due to the lack of primary care physicians, and their ability to do so is understood to be temporary through various "nurse practice acts" to provide relief for the lack of physicians. Many of these states also provide "temporary" licenses do so. It all SOUNDS good in theory and over the internet, but in practice it is more complicated.
FNPs aren't going to be walking around hospitals practicing medicine with total autonomy and doing surgery, that's not happening.. You'll often find sole practitioners working in clinics, minute clinics, or family medicine practices, and they often have difficulty with insurance companies and reimbursements being more strict on them which makes it more difficult to actually practice without an MD/DO signing off or sitting on the phone arguing with insurance people and administrators.
Finally more often than not if you want to be inside people in the hospital without going to med-school your best bet is being a PA and working with specific physicians all the time.
@@tybera1114 Nurse practitioners in my state and several others have 100% practice autonomy. Do your research, it’s extremely easy to find. FNP’s like myself most definitely can and do work in neurosurgery. They can be first assist and bill insurance as such. Just as a PA would. FNP’s work across all medical specialties, not just in primary care. Being a FNP allows you to care for any patients from birth til death anywhere along the spectrum of life. We do not need a collaborative agreement of any kind to do so. We provide better patient outcomes than our MD/DO counterparts, and you can look that up as well. Please educate yourself prior to coming online thinking you can say want you want when you have no facts to back up what you say. Everything I’m saying is easy to find with a simple google search from verified sources. It’s literally a click away. Try and run that game on someone who may not be in the field and may not know. I am in the field. It’s clear that your not a FNP nor a APRN at all or you would know all of this as it’s common knowledge. Your ignorance in the subject matter is apparent and it’s not a good look. Please inform yourself
@@rohseans I did, NPs aren't working SOLO in neuro. They can only work SOLO in primary care. Please RE-READ what I wrote.
@@tybera1114 that’s simply not true. I have FNP’s working in my current neurology office that practice independently.
@@rohseans I didn't say neurology, please reread. Also there are oodles of studies out now that show that FNPs and PA working independently order more needless tests and have worse patient outcomes. The positive studies from years ago assessed PAs and NPs that were working under physician supervision. r/noctor.
If you want to be a physician go to medical school.
I’m 😊😅😅
as someone with several surgeries and illnesses, these is very bothersome. why have MD if PA is going to act on being MD without all the education an MD has to go through. If i have surgery, I want a certified surgeon and one who has had lots of experience. assisting surgeon, thats fine. Seeing family practice if not trying to be a specialist is fine. I have a PA in the family doc i like that is actually a better doctor than the real doctor. so not saying all are a bad thing. not at all. Newbies, i never see personally, due to my health. but surgeries itself, I have to make sure its my actual surgeon or doctor doing it, and not a PA. And ask that no PA do my reading finals of my radiations cause they were wrong so many times, and I am pretty sure the radiology dept was allowing PA's to read them in that field vs full doctors in that field cause too many times they were wrong.
So, you have no idea who did your reads (they’re signed btw lol), but you just assume a PA read them (only when they’re wrong) to fulfill your bias? 😂
wait til you find out that medical students close sutures, also sometimes assist in surgery, as well as residents (still learning) assisting if not doing majority of the surgery depending on their year level. you'll be surprised as to how much an attending does and doesn't do lol
How did you become a PA as a white male? I made the Deans list 7 times had 2 years of medical experience in dentists offices, hospitals, nursing homes, and home healthcare facilities with a letter of recommendation from the head professor of Virology and lead researcher of Co-vid 19 in my state and couldn't even get an interview!!! Are you from a wealthy family of doctors??? I even got a 3.5 GPA and took Virology, Bacterial Infectious Diseases, and the Anatomy dissection lab during my undergrad and received a 144 credit bachelors of general studies from the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In addition to all the prerequisites, I also have published 4 books, have a stack of certifications in healthcare from a US government training program took humanities and, gender studies, and community leadership. What was it exactly that made you stand out? All the PA schools I know of only accept minorities and women that did the bare minimum!!!
so sad to hear you say this, the majority of people that get into PA schools are white women based on statistics...NOT minorities..i have no idea where you are getting your information from...PAs are 70% white with the remaining 30% made up of all other ethnicities...you are uninformed about the profession which is why you are likely not getting interviews/acceptances. Most people who get into PA school (white women) have significantly more than 2 years of clinical experience. In my class alone we had a Pathologist assistant, several EMTs, nurses, occupational therapist, Respiratory therapist, with the average health care hours being 10K..
Wow your background is crazy awesome and don’t see why you wouldn’t qualify for the program the time that you applied. Are the medical house direct patient care? If so, then yeah I don’t see why they wouldn’t accept you. Dress like Madea and you should definitely get accepted!!! Lol no I’m joking but maybe you should ask the schools that you have applied to why you wasn’t the chosen one.
Hours*
You made this ignorant comment and still wonder why you’re not a PA. Especially considering that minorities make up such a small percentage in the PA career. If you didn’t get then check in with schools you applied to instead of being an entitled racist brat with a generic “this why I’m special, woe is me” backstory.
Weird comment, sounds like you feel like you're being unfairly treated due to your race and gender and I think that's likely not the cause.