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Earlier in the year I didn’t appreciate the environment of being around doctors and residents as much as I do now. As a brand new first year, you listen to Pathology Residents in their conferences and think you won’t learn about the same things as the people getting their doctorate degree and you quickly comeContinue reading “Learning from Various Health Care Professionals”

Mental health is an important topic that I feel like I should talk about for a minute on a blog that students read. I came home today from a lab and assisting in an autopsy and something felt off from the start of the day. In the autopsy there was a resident and a secondContinue reading “Raise Your Hand if You’ve Ever Felt Personally Victimized by Covid-19”

Today I remembered why I wanted to be a PA. Not that I ever stopped of course, but in the midst of stress in trying to just learn as much information as possible to pass exams and survive the program, the parts of school that make you feel like you are job training and notContinue reading “SEE-FIM, see I Told You We’d be Back”

And we are done! A lot of exciting things happened over the last couple weeks of online classes and I finished up another round of finals. We finished Robbins textbook, 16 chapters of it in 12 weeks. They say read it through the first time so that it becomes a quicker, familiar reference in theContinue reading “I Went to Online Classes and all I Got Was This Lousy Mask”

That’s what Michelle called us in her introduction email in January and it sounds pretty cool so I’ll steal it for a second. If you’re reading this blog looking for advice and some tips before coming in January, you should be super proud of yourself. This is a hard program, so you’ll want to remindContinue reading “Advice for the New “Future PA’s of America””

We’ve all experience that awful reflux of bitter fluid that comes back up after a chilly dog or one too many sips of alcohol. Our esophagus takes a beating with the hot liquids and acidic food we intake which is why our body is equipped with stratified squamous cells. Keratinized stratified squamous is the typeContinue reading “Nausea Heart-Burn Indigestion, Upset Stomach, Metaplasia!”

It only took about a week in the program to realize that some terms in pathology have some pretty funky names. There are special names for just about everything. It can be overwhelming trying to even say the right term or spell it, so remembering what these terms mean and what mutations are linked toContinue reading “Von Meyenburg complexes? Sounds like a Buzz Word to me”

Well, I guess I can’t answer that question myself. Some people are lucky enough to work in different areas of this field before deciding being a Pathologists’ Assistant is for them, but some are worried about leaving the security of a paycheck, taking on more student loans and getting back into hitting the books. IContinue reading “Is Going Back to School After Working for Awhile the Right Move?”

I’ve been a bit absent on the blog lately, so I intend to keep up more this summer, I just don’t have the hands-on cool stuff to talk about anymore! But we’ll make do if you’re tuning in still. I’ve gotten some emails from interviewees about my previous Interview blog post. Shoot me an emailContinue reading “Anatomy + Disease Mechanisms + Anatomical Techniques = Systemic Path”

This blog is going to be a little different for now, since there won’t be many specimens I can discuss for the time being. Yes, the program is being done online all summer too and yes, everyone is disappointed. I miss my classmates and our celebratory margaritas after the exams at Los Mariachis (don’t worryContinue reading “Polio vaccine helped us walk, literally, so Covid-19 could run”