Happy Halloween!!!
I hope you’re taking some time to dress up, decorate, and have some fun. I’m sure you deserve a small respite. Not too much of course, but you might be able to take your foot of the gas for one night.
Do you watch the Nightmare Before Christmas on Halloween or Christmas? (There is a right answer by the way.)
Anyway, tonight is Halloween night, but it’s also the last day of October. Which means the Physician Assistant Exam Scholars newsletter gets sent to the printer tomorrow just as the vampires are closing their coffin lids.
Here’s what you’ll learn in this particular installment:
* How to get unstuck and figure out how to move forward when you’ve been spinning your wheels. You know it’s happening. You’re working really hard, but you aren’t getting where you want to go.
* One thing to do every day that will put you in at the top of your class 365 days from now
* One idea that is going to drive Type A people out their minds. It’s going to be like a spider crawling inside of their skulls because they’ll know I’m right, but it’s going to be so hard to come to terms with. (Page 3)
* A method for solving the age-old student problem of, “What should I study? How deep should I go?” I’m going to lay out for you exactly how I make this decision and give you several options for how you can make it for yourself. Ultimately you have to decide, but I’m going to give you the tools to make the right decision for you.
* The most valuable thing the NCCPA and your PA program do for you. You might think they’re mean and out to get you, but this one service is what you’re paying all the money for. You really should understand what it is. (Page 5)
* Exactly what to study first when you sit down to look at a new disease or to refresh your memory about a disease state you’ve already learned. I’m going to show you where to focus your time and energy so that you will outperform on your exams, whether that’s weekly exams or the PANCE.
* The formula for how medicine is presented. Once you understand this pattern, what now looks like it’s written in Greek clears up like a 13 year old boys face once he starts washing it. Seeing the patterns will make it much easier to learn and much easier to understand what questions are coming your way.
* The most important skill you need to answer test questions AND treat your patients. (Page 9)
* Where I struggle the most when it comes to learning medicine and the strategy I use to mitigate the problem. I’d guess more than 50% of students struggle here too.
* How to tell TWELVE different GI diseases apart in a question stem at a glance. With a little bit of work and using what I’ve got for you here, GI will be a piece of cake.
There’s so much information out there on content, but so little on how to learn the content. This issue of PAES handles both. Better hurry though if you want to get your blood soaked fingertips on it. This issue will be unavailable at this time tomorrow.
Physician Assistant Exam Scholars
Brian Wallace
P.S. The PAES newsletter is a monthly PRINT newsletter that is mailed directly to your door covering topics in a much deeper and more thorough way than I possibly could in an email. If you get something out of the email content, you will LOVE the Physician Assistant Exam Scholars Newsletter.