Overwhelmed..

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<p>Hi To All,</p>

<p>It is the summer before 12th grade and College preparation is in the final stages…</p>

<p>I just find it a bit overwhelming with all the info and paperwork etc… My son has decided </p>

<p>he would like to be a Physician Assistant. Presently, he is job shadowing at a major Medical </p>

<p>Emergency Trauma Center and loves it!! </p>

<p>I have been researching and find ambigous information on P.A. Programs. He would like to </p>

<p>attend a 4yr College that upon graduation he could begin his career…</p>

<p>Well, any advice or resources would be greatly appreicated… Thanks in Advance…</p>

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<p>I have a nephew who is a PA. He graduated with a BS in some sort of biology and went to a PA program in Arizona. It is very intense–like a little over a year and a half of straight through schooling, including practical training. He had no trouble getting a job and is paid quite well. It’s worked for him.</p>

<p>I believe that there are 4 year programs for physician assistants–I would expect them to be very accelerated in content!</p>

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<p>There are several posts on this subject under “Professional and Graduate School”. Search the words “physician assistant”. I just posted about the 5 year programs that I found in my hours of research. These are 5 year programs where you get a BS and Masters’s degree. I don’t know anything about the 4 year BS degrees, as I don’t think you see them very often.</p>

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<p>DS has two friends who are physicians assistants. Both went to five year programs which I believe included some kind of internship requirement as well. Neither of them even found a school that had a four year ONLY requirement for PAs.</p>

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<p>S2’s university offers a PA program but one must have completed a bachelor’s degree prior to entering the program and then apply for admission. It takes 27 months to complete. It is pretty selective. This program only admits 30 students per yr.</p>