Trying to Become a Physician Assistant? Here’s How to Make it Happen

Aug 8
08:28

2011

Jacob Portman

Jacob Portman

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It great that you want to get in the health care industry as a physician assistant,Trying to Become a Physician Assistant? Here’s How to Make it Happen Articles and if you have any hopes and aspiring of being a PA then you are most definitely going to need to make sure to plan out the right course of action to accomplish this goal. The first thing you’re going to need to do is make sure you do your due diligence and research what is necessary for you to become a physician assistant. To be honest with you, the research phase is without a doubt the most crucial step that you’re going to go through so that you know you are making the right decision in regards to this career choice.

Obviously, the best place to get the research and information you need is without a doubt the internet, but if you won’t have a ton of access to the internet then all I can recommend that you do is meet someone who is already a PA or someone who is going in to become one like you and get whatever information you can out of them.

Once you’ve gotten all the information you need the next thing you’re going to need to do is you should begin looking for a good physician assistant program so that you can get the degree and certification that you need. You can get your degree at a community college because they’re always available there, and most of these community colleges are going to offering their applicants an associate’s degree in pre-physician assistant courses.

The amount of time it’ll take you as a student to get this degree from the community college will generally take at least 2 years, and these courses will without a doubt be mainly targeted toward subjects that are based in science and medical studies. After you have gotten the degree that you need from whatever community college you attended, you are then going to need to get yourself into a master’s program and this is going to take up four years of your life.

These master’s programs will always be offered at hospitals who have universities. This isn’t going to be the last step for you to become a physician assistant because you are still going to need to take the physician assistant exam that is given out by the AAPA. They will give you your exam in which you will get certified and then you will be eligible to take your state licensure exam so that you can practice medicine as a PA.