Have you noticed how hard it is to hold your brain inside your head at the end of the day? Is it just me or are there days when you have to wrap your head in duct tape, pinch your nose, and tilt you head back just to keep everything inside?
Learning everything the first time around is like sprinting two marathons, and then to make matters worse you’re expected to hold onto everything you learned. Then, just when you don’t think you can take it another second, you have to sit for 5 HOUR test.
Your brain is completely fried. Like tossing a computer into a bathtub kind of fried. And you need to use that brain to climb Mt. Everest, and oh wait, did I mention that your entire life depends on you getting to the summit?
Sucks right?
I’ve got good news and bad news. The bad news is that it does suck. PA school is a slog no matter how you slice it.
The good news?
Together we can make it better. Not easy. Not perfect, but better.
I’ve gotten thank you’s for helping people pass their exams with the podcast and The Final Step. I’ve gotten thank you’s for helping people find/create and get the job of their dreams. But all of that is peanuts to the lives that have been changed with Physician Assistant Exam Scholars.
Here’s why: Physician Assistant Exam Scholars BREAKS DOWN what everyone else has been doing. We get down to the “first principles” and get you moving.
We look at what’s making your exams hard, and we discuss ways to fix it.
Do you the number one thing holding PA students back from the scores they deserve???
Anxiety. Plain and simple. They get to the test and freak out. Maybe a little. Maybe a lot.
I look at that and say, “I could teach heart murmurs and help PA students with that one topic. Or I could cover anxiety management and help them on every exam and every job interview FOREVER.”
Which one of those has a higher return on investment?
Heart murmurs are sexier for sure. Teaching heart murmurs is like teaching golfers to drive the ball further off the tee.
It’s what everyone wants, yet it isn’t what matters. Do you know what matters in golf 100x more than driving the ball of the tee? Putting. It’s the least exciting, least sexy, last thing people want to learn. But there is a common saying on the golf course, “Drive for show. Putt for dough.”
Putting is where the money is. Putting is how you win tournaments.
First principles.
First principles for passing tests – control your mind. You cannot do your best if your heart rate is over 100. Plain and simple.
I created Physician Assistant Exam Scholars almost four years ago because I knew that this stuff takes a little time. It isn’t immediate. It isn’t a sparkly shiny pot of gold. It’s a rough diamond. Worth 1,000s of times what that pot of gold is worth, but it isn’t sexy, it isn’t a get rich quick scheme.
Learning to manage test anxiety is boring. It’s very boring and can seem trivial and beneath you, but when your grades start slowly climbing….
Physician Assistant Exam Scholars, at its heart, is a PRINT newsletter. It gets delivered to your doorstep every single month, and it’s packed with tips, techniques, and philosophies for test taking, studying and job searches and of course passing the PANCE.
Like I said a PRINT newsletter (For real. You’ll be able to hold it in your hot little hands).
As a print newsletter, there is of course a print deadline. That my friends is the 1st of every month. Be sure to save your spot. This is going to be a good one.
Physician Assistant Exam Scholars
Brian Wallace
P.S. You also get access to every podcast ever created along with priority email access to yours truly when you subscribe.