Prior Experience for Physician Assistants?

izumi513
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:03:56 +0000

I’m really considering becoming a physician assistant but i heard that to get accepted into pa school you need to have prior experience in the medical field. i’m not sure if i should take a gap year for this and become some low level medical worker like a medical or nurses assistant or if i should get experience in college. how am i supposed to get experience working in the medical field if i don’t have any medical training because i’m majoring in something non medical related? do they expect people to take time off to learn some new low paying trade and then apply to pa school? where am i supposed to get good medical experience during college?