Empowered PAs

Celebrated PA day with some of the BEST PAs out there!

Being a Pediatric Emergency Medicine PA has been incredibly fulfilling and it's honestly it's due to working with incredible people like and 🙌🙌

Though it's not often enough.. our team does try to meet up outside of work ever so often and I have to admit it's a great way to decompress and bond over shared experiences, and also catch up on personal stuff too. Working in medicine can be hard- connecting with those who "get it" can make it better!

This month I have been thankful to be a clinical preceptor for a 2nd year PA student, Jillian () 🙌

Way back before the plague.. when I still took Pre-PA students (I don't right now) she'd reached out through social media and asked if she could shadow, and ended up shadowing me for a few shifts.

Fast forward to now, when she is a PA student in my department, seeing patients and doing procedures with me (and our other PA/NP colleagues!). I might have even forced her to take a gowned up selfie in the trauma room while we waited for the helicopter to land 😘 No PA students were harmed during photography, I promise.

It's been fun to see her progression- and a reminder of how important it is to help pre-PAs.

I don't have the bandwidth to mentor Pre-PAs directly anymore- but do have all of our virtual shadowing events recorded (over 40 hours!) there is a link in bio for those interested! Many students use them on their applications.. and while virtual shadowing isn't a replacement for in person shadowing, it's a great adjunct, and a great way to learn about the profession, and how PAs serve in so many specialties (Peds EM, ortho, psych, general ER, surgery, urology... the list is pretty long!)