I recently had a comment on my blog that I thought I would share the answers with everyone since some of them seem pertinent to pre-PAs!
-I wrote my own blog and I was wonder how difficult it was for you to do the
video blog? (I am assuming when I start PA school I will have less time, but
would still like to keep updating the blog, and I hope making a video is
easy.)
The video blog was beyond easy to make since I have a webcam in my laptop. Just hit record and go! Now, the only issue I am having is how to sync the video and auido...now that's another story! (and if anyone knows, please message me and help me out lol) But definitely a lot less time consuming than writing a blog and very easy. Plus, you can relay more information in a shorter period of time this way as well.
-What kind of study methods do you use? I have a good idea of what
works for me but I am always curious how other people do it. Plus I want to see
what works in PA school and it sounds like you are rocking PA school with some
very high grades!
Well thank you first off, I am really glad to see that my studies are paying off since I do put a lot of time and effort into them :)
But what I do is study on my own first. I make study guides on my own based off of the material covered in class. Each night I try to sit down and write out a portion of the study guide that I learned that day (while still fresh in my mind) so that it is all ready and I am not rushing to finish it a couple days before the exam. Then I highlight the important parts and read up on what I do not understand. From there, I make notecards on what I am still not grasping and study them. Once I feel confident that I get the material I meet up with my study group. The number of people in the group change debating on who decides they want to study together or not for that exam but it ranges anywhere from 2-5 of us. Then we just shoot questions off of each other until we all understand the info. If someone else asks you a question and you can sufficiently explain it to them, you know that material.
This is just something that works well for me so I hope it helps!
- Do recommend reading up on anything during the summer
prior to PA school?
There are 2 things I reccomend doing.
1) Brush up on your anatomy! Know the flow of blood through the heart to the body, know what different muscles do throughout the body, learn your cranial nerves, etc. This will only help you since, in my program, anatomy is only 1 semester...16 weeks. To know the WHOLE body. So yes, brush up on that :)
2) Learn common medical terminology. I had an exam the first day of class on med term and it will only help you in the long run to know this.
Hope this helps Chase and all of those reading this! Please feel free to ask anything else as well :)
