Oooh thank you for this video! I've always been interested in going into geriatrics as a PA and wasn't aware it would be in the Top 10 for pay. Awesome 😄
Who knew? Geriatrics is great, complicated but rewarding-and always lots to learn from people who have lived a bit more than ourselves, right? Double bonus that the pay is pretty great 🙌🏼
I shadowed an anesthesiology PA before I went to PA school. They did a lot of the pre op checklist mostly. No procedures from what I witnessed the CRNA did all the procedures
Aaahh-I see, that makes more sense: Preop evaluation to assess risk. I was wondering which year we covered inhaled anesthetics and intraoperative hemodynamic monitoring!!😂 Thank you for the info!!
Hello yall. I have a CT-PA question that is not necessarily related to this video but more so to CT-PA... As a CT-PA how many hours would you say that you spend charting/writing medical notes compared to being in surgery compared to pre-op/post-op/patient encounters? Thank you!
It differs depending on your practice size, roles of each position, etc but for us I’d say it’s 70% surgery, 20-25% pre-post op encounters and 5-10% charting…so not bad. If we have a lot of people in the hospital obviously that translates to more daily notes, then eventually more follow up appointments but it’s manageable.
@@PAStartup Thank you for this response! I just did an elective cardio in patient rotation and was just shocked at how much of their time is spent charting. I have an elective CT surgery rotation upcoming and am really looking forward to doing the work instead of just writing a lot about the work that was done.
@@PAStartup hello once more! I have another question for you. After PA school what was your experience when getting your first job in the sense of how long the credentialing process etc took for you? Aka how long did it take you to start working from after graduation/job acceptance to the actual first day on the job if that makes sense? After PA school I would like to try and accept a CT PA position but I also was just wondering what the typical time line is for certification, licensure, and creditentialing for that speciality? Or does it just depend on a lot on who the employer is and how long the credientaling process takes for that employer? Or can you work as a ‘non-credentialed’ CT PA while you await your hospitals creditentialing process and kinda just learn the job and not do any surgical stuff etc while you await your full creditentialing? If that makes sense? Sorry it’s a long question. I just would like to start working as soon as possible as a CT PA after school and I am worried that I am going to have to wait 3-6 months to start working because of all the ‘red tape’. Thanks for your help!
Good question - we’re working on this video right now actually. There are a few variables that tend to be the rate-limiting steps: 1) taking boards & getting your state license because nothing can proceed until those are done, 2) Hospital privileges & insurance credentialing. If you’re in a hospital setting (CT Surgery OR for example), you & the practice will apply for hospital privileges and you can’t touch a patient without them. Some places will let you start prior to this and shadow, other places won’t because if you do happen to touch a patient they are liable. Also, how the practice will bill for you matters…if everything is billed incident-to (or everything is billed under the physician - which is less than ideal because you won’t be able to easily track your personal productivity) you could start before you’re credentialed with individual insurance companies. If the practice bills for your services directly, they’ll want you credentialed with all their insurers prior to starting so you don’t accidentally see a patient who has insurance with a company you’re not yet credentialed for. Hope this helps, but the video will break it down a little better!
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Oooh thank you for this video! I've always been interested in going into geriatrics as a PA and wasn't aware it would be in the Top 10 for pay. Awesome 😄
Who knew? Geriatrics is great, complicated but rewarding-and always lots to learn from people who have lived a bit more than ourselves, right? Double bonus that the pay is pretty great 🙌🏼
Hopeful for emergency medicine as my first job! Nice vid. Thanks for the info.
Excellent choice my friend-good variety of conditions and a predictable schedule. All with a hint of craziness😂😉
I shadowed an anesthesiology PA before I went to PA school. They did a lot of the pre op checklist mostly. No procedures from what I witnessed the CRNA did all the procedures
Aaahh-I see, that makes more sense: Preop evaluation to assess risk. I was wondering which year we covered inhaled anesthetics and intraoperative hemodynamic monitoring!!😂
Thank you for the info!!
Great video, thank you. I want to know how much college fee do i have to pay to study PA course?
Thank you! In the US it depends on the school you chose. Head to our friend’s site at paschoolfinder.com and you can find out more!
Hello yall. I have a CT-PA question that is not necessarily related to this video but more so to CT-PA... As a CT-PA how many hours would you say that you spend charting/writing medical notes compared to being in surgery compared to pre-op/post-op/patient encounters? Thank you!
It differs depending on your practice size, roles of each position, etc but for us I’d say it’s 70% surgery, 20-25% pre-post op encounters and 5-10% charting…so not bad.
If we have a lot of people in the hospital obviously that translates to more daily notes, then eventually more follow up appointments but it’s manageable.
@@PAStartup Thank you for this response! I just did an elective cardio in patient rotation and was just shocked at how much of their time is spent charting. I have an elective CT surgery rotation upcoming and am really looking forward to doing the work instead of just writing a lot about the work that was done.
Cardiology is a lot of charting since they’ll follow a lot of people in the hospital, but in surgery we get breaks in charting to operate!🙌🏼😂
@@PAStartup hello once more! I have another question for you. After PA school what was your experience when getting your first job in the sense of how long the credentialing process etc took for you? Aka how long did it take you to start working from after graduation/job acceptance to the actual first day on the job if that makes sense? After PA school I would like to try and accept a CT PA position but I also was just wondering what the typical time line is for certification, licensure, and creditentialing for that speciality? Or does it just depend on a lot on who the employer is and how long the credientaling process takes for that employer? Or can you work as a ‘non-credentialed’ CT PA while you await your hospitals creditentialing process and kinda just learn the job and not do any surgical stuff etc while you await your full creditentialing? If that makes sense? Sorry it’s a long question. I just would like to start working as soon as possible as a CT PA after school and I am worried that I am going to have to wait 3-6 months to start working because of all the ‘red tape’. Thanks for your help!
Good question - we’re working on this video right now actually. There are a few variables that tend to be the rate-limiting steps: 1) taking boards & getting your state license because nothing can proceed until those are done, 2) Hospital privileges & insurance credentialing. If you’re in a hospital setting (CT Surgery OR for example), you & the practice will apply for hospital privileges and you can’t touch a patient without them. Some places will let you start prior to this and shadow, other places won’t because if you do happen to touch a patient they are liable.
Also, how the practice will bill for you matters…if everything is billed incident-to (or everything is billed under the physician - which is less than ideal because you won’t be able to easily track your personal productivity) you could start before you’re credentialed with individual insurance companies. If the practice bills for your services directly, they’ll want you credentialed with all their insurers prior to starting so you don’t accidentally see a patient who has insurance with a company you’re not yet credentialed for.
Hope this helps, but the video will break it down a little better!