Physician Assistant Preparation
What is a Physician Assistant (PA)?
What is a Physician Assistant (PA)?
Pre-Application Counseling Sessions (Salus University)
PAs work in physician offices, hospitals, and clinics in collaboration with a licensed physician. They are licensed to diagnose and treat illness and disease, and to prescribe medication for patients.
Learn More about PAs from the American Academic of Physician Associates
A Physician Assistant has a variety of specialty areas to go into such as (but not limited to):
Primary care
- Family medicine
- Internal medicine (general)
- Pediatrics (general)
Internal medicine subspecialties
- Cardiology
- Critical care
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Hematology & oncology
- Infectious disease
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Pulmonology
- Rheumatology
- Emergency medicine
- Pediatric subspecialties (other)
- Cardiovascular/cardiothoracic surgery
- Bariatric surgery
- Colon & rectal surgery
- General surgery
- Neurosurgery
- Oncology surgery
- Orthopedic surgery
- Otolaryngology
- Pediatric surgery
- Plastic surgery
- Thoracic surgery
- Transplant surgery
- Trauma surgery
- Urology
- Vascular surgery
- And more!
Resources and Opportunities:
- Become a PA
- PAs Go Beyond
- Video: PAs Go Beyond as an explainer of the profession
- Pre-PA Membership page
- AAPA Membership
- How do I get into school? (Make sure to check the individual schools you are applying to!)
- Common prerequisites
- PA timeline and FAQS
- Scholarships
- Scholarships and Grants
Where should I apply?