Career Resources
Checklist: Before You Graduate
Make sure you’ve got all the major milestones and deadlines checked off as you prepare to graduate and launch your PA career.
Video: Clinical Rotations Dos and Don’ts
Make your first foray into clinical practice a memorable one – for all the right reasons! Watch our video, and then use our Clinical Rotations checklists and guides to avoid common pitfalls and set yourself up for success.
Video: Which Career Path Is Right for You?
There are so many ways to be a PA…from clinical practice in dozens of specialties to non-clinical careers in research and education. Check out our video to help you explore your options and take advantage of tools to help you get there!
Tackling Clinical Rotations
Conquer clinical rotations! Learn common do’s and don’ts with our video and get even more helpful and detailed tips with our guide.
Explaining PA Practice to Employers
Be ready to explain PA practice to potential employers and share the ways you can contribute to medical care.
Guide: Where Will You Take Your PA Career?
Starting out as a PA, you have many options available to you. You can head into a clinical or nonclinical role, and even consider independent contracting. Here’s a list of questions you can ask yourself to help determine where your interests lie.
Advice for New Grads: Choosing Your Specialty
PA Verdale Benson knows that PA career flexibility is both a blessing a burden. His advice to new grads who are trying to choose a specialty: pursue your passion and maximize your career-growth potential.
PA Portfolio
PA Portfolio is a secure, online sharing and storage tool for important education, licensing and certification, and career records.
Advice for PA Students from the AAPA Community
Huddle, AAPA’s members-only online community, fosters discussion amongst PAs and serves as a repository for helpful career-related information. Recently, seasoned PAs shared their best advice for PA students and new grads.
PA Student to PA: Navigating the Transition
While the transition from program to practice may seem overwhelming and nerve-wracking, PA students can set themselves up for a successful career start with these tips.
Surviving Your Didactic Phase
Most PAs recall their PA education as being the most rigorous and challenging of their academic careers. The hard work will be worth it as you learn how to become an outstanding clinician.
Surviving Your Clinical Phase
During Clinical Rotations you will put your theoretical medical knowledge to the test in real-world clinical settings. Under the supervision of a preceptor, you will be placed on health teams in several different medical settings and specialties.
5 Tips for PA School’s Didactic Phase
The didactic phase is the first exposure many future PAs have to the rigors, challenges, and rewards of their chosen career.
PA Career Coach
Jennifer Hohman has helped hundreds of PAs get their dream jobs. Put her expertise to work for you!
PArenthood
Getting through PA school is a challenge for anyone, and particularly for parents of young children.
