Hey!

In this blog I would like to discuss one of my options for graduate school after I finish here at UNCW. Originally I had planned to attend Physical Therapy school and have been working towards that for the past few years. Recently in one of my classes we had a guest speaker who was a Physicians Assistant and I became very interested in that career path. I am now considering both careers and preparing myself by having the prerequisites for each graduate school. I became interested in PA school after learning it only required 2 years of post graduate study, which is one year less than PT School. I had always thought it required much more schooling. I was also interested when I learned the variety of settings one could work in once passing the national PA certification exam. One is not required to have any specialized training for each field, one only needs the national certification. This really sparked my interest since I am the type of individual who does not like to be doing the same thing for a long period of time. I like to have variety in my life and especially in my career. I have been researching the career mostly on the American Academy of Physicians Assistant website (http://www.aapa.org/) , and each school who offers the programs respective websites. I am very excited to learn more about this career path and maybe one day entering it. Thanks for listening!
-Erin