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I have a job! When you begin PA school you learn to take it a day at a time and not worry about the job market until the second year. Time flies in this program and we are in the time of year where we are applying and interviewing and negotiating all while being onContinue reading “A Moment Every PA-S Waits For!”

It’s been a while since I had time to write a blog, but I figured it’s time to give an update. St Clair was my first 6-week rotation, and it was the best. I got so many different specimens this community hospital and really felt like I was getting comfortable at the bench. The PAsContinue reading “St. Clair and Presby Autopsy”

Just like everything else these days, giving tours of our labs can now be online! Our class president took time to gather photos and explanations of our campus buildings to give you a feel for what WVU has to offer! The school is big, but our program has its own corner to make learning feelContinue reading “Applying and Interviewing Soon? Tour Our Campus Now!”

Week one of rotations isn’t quite over yet, but it’s safe to say I survived. The two PA’s and 4 pathologists at my site have been amazing and welcoming. First thing to note is how different every site is. Michelle and Justin will teach you to dictate a certain way or gross something a certainContinue reading “Year 2”

Back in October we were given a rotation schedule. First question to answer is no, you do not choose where you go for rotations, Michelle and Justin place you. I have 9 different rotations, and most are 6 weeks long and a couple are 3 weeks long. Most are surgical pathology and a couple areContinue reading “How I’m Preparing for Rotations”

I finished my finals last week. A lot of naps, Netflix and family time has been going on. I slept about 12 hours the Wednesday night that finals were over no shame in admitting that. This was the light at the end of the tunnel we’d waited for all year. We start rotations hopefully onContinue reading “Let’s See How Many Netflix Shows a PA Student can Binge on Their Winter Break”

Whenever I signed up for this program, Covid wasn’t a thing. I graduated in May of 2019 and had been accepted into the program and knew the start date was 2020. I began working at a lab doing drug testing and making good money. I actually liked it, so I got a little comfortable evenContinue reading “Year 1: Pandemic Edition”

Part of the duties of a PA is handling specimens that come for intraoperative consultation, which involves quickly making a slide to be reviewed under a microscope by a pathologist to determine how a surgeon should proceed with a patient in the middle of a surgery. If a specimen isn’t for frozen, PAs can takeContinue reading “Freeze! For Intraoperative Consultation”

We don’t have too many weeks left in Morgantown and today things sort of hit us all when we were given our rotation schedules. Finally when something you wait for and work towards in this program happens it’s a lot to take in. Didactic year is very short. Short amount of time for all theContinue reading “Don’t Get Too Comfortable”

I remembered one of the first things I asked a second-year student…“Do you get to come up for air?” They said you might feel like you’re drowning in work and always studying but there are times you get to take that breather. West Virginia has a lot to offer and in the times I getContinue reading “Take a Hike”