Getting Into the Physician Assistant School of Your Choice
February 8th, 2010
Assistant, Choice, Getting, Into, Physician, school Posted in Physicians | 5 Comments 
- ISBN13: 9780071421850
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Give PA applicants a competitive edge.
The best resource for anyone considering this career.
Getting Into the PA School of Your Choice, 2/e is a precise blueprint that addresses every step of the application process, including what schools look for in an applicant, financial aid, Internet resources, and information on PA programs.
*How to select a PA program
*Setting and achieving goals
*Comments, suggestions, and tips from current PA students
*Trends in PA programs- including excerpts from “PAs in the field” and salary profiles
*Expert advice on effective letters of recommendation Writing a quality essay-including sample essays that worked
*Interview strategies- including the toughest questions and answers
*Advice and contacts for financial aid
*Key web sites and Internet resources
Getting Into the Physician Assistant School of Your Choice
February 8th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
This book is fairly elementary and not very usefull to any one who has done any other reading about the application process for medical or physicians assitant schools.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 8th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
My wife read this book when applying to PA school, but was dissapointed that it had not been updated for many years. After completing and subsequently teaching in PA school, she wrote her own book on applying to PA school, which she recently listed on Amazon: An Applicant’s Guide to Physician Assistant School and Practice.
While she would not foist her book on anyone, I have no such reservations. After reading her book (many times), I highly recommend checking out her book in addition to Mr. Rodican’s.
Rating: 4 / 5
February 8th, 2010 at 6:41 pm
Well maybe great for pre-World Wide Web. Most, if not all, the information about the schools is available from online resources. If the author was to compile and update this information yearly and post it on a web site using the book with a key number, he would have a winning combination. Alas, that isn’t the case.
Having little or no access to counseling resources, the most difficult part of the PA application process was writing the narrative which for the 2007 application cycle, at least, was to address the statement: Please describe your motivation towards becoming a PA. Looking at the sample essays in the text, I put together a 2000 word statement to somewhat match the sample essay’s length. Only one small problem, CASPA now restricts applicants to 2,970 characters which in my case was 519 words. One just doesn’t have the luxury of explanations and developing ideas that is shown in the text.
At this stage, I have submitted my CASPA application and am now in the waiting game to hear about interviews. In skimming the interview information, it appears to be a rehash of standard interview hints. Whom would think that one should be well groomed at a professional interview? Whom would to think to have a strong confident posture in interviewing for a medical position. While these hints may be valuable to someone whom has not gone through an interview process, they are standard for most people that have been involved in health care which the majority of Master’s level PA applicants have been.
With a minimum of updating to discuss CASPA and how to write an effective 2,970 application essay, this text could be a great help. Until then, at best a so-so use of the dead trees used to create the paper it is printed on.
Rating: 3 / 5
February 8th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
Overall good for the Pre-PA who has done little to no research on the profession or admission into PA programs. I bought this book along with others in order to prepare for PA school applications and interviews. Though it is somewhat helpful in a general sense, I felt that it wasn’t as concise as it should have been with the author talking a lot about himself in many section intros. It also has some out of date information and has a lot of information that is commonly found online. IN the end it didn’t give me any AH-HAH moments.
Rating: 3 / 5
February 8th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
I found this book to be extremely helpful. The book is comprehensively written to walk you through the steps of the application process starting at the very beginning with essays, then interviews, and even the “what happens next if I am not accepted?” I purchased this book late in the game (after I had sent my applications and found out that I was invited for interviews), but the interview prep section was amazingly helpful and entirely worth the purchase. This book has several pages of possible questions alongside appropriate answers with insights that allow you to formulate your own personalized and thoughtful answers. I am glad I purchased this book because I was accepted to P.A. school, and it may be due to its assistance with my interview preparation!
Rating: 4 / 5