Didactic year is tough. One recent grad declared that if he had a choice to re-do his didactic year or get shot in the head, he'd take the bullet every time! ;-)
HELP is possible: Alumni can offer significant relief to students in the Class of 2012 in the Center for Physician Assistant Studies. It involves a brief moment of clinical exposure, a reality to come, just beyond the didactic year.
If you are interested, Alumni are available for an extracurricular exercise, as ONE DAY of clinical shadowing. No touching of patients, but no obligation to perform independently. No student evaluation, but no limit to questioning.
The offer is well circumscribed: one student, for one day, by personal arrangement, sometime between 10/1/10 and 9/30/11.
To arrange such a day, students should individually contact one of these Physician Assistants, practicing in New York's greater Capital District, who have offered to make themselves available to current students:
Robert Bielawa
Saratoga Emergency Physicians, PC
bobbielawa@hotmail.com
David O’Brien
St. Francis Hospital ER, Poughkeepsie
NYseadog@aol.com
Stephen D. Carson
A.O. Fox Hospital Emergency Department
tek409@aol.com
Laura Garofalo
Hudson Valley Family Physicians, Kingston, NY
LJGarofalo@yahoo.com
Stephanie Hardy Mesercola
Pediatric Associates of Saratoga
shardy12@nycap.rr.com
David Jackson
Glens Falls Hospital Emergency Room
jacksondi@aol.com
Marty Knowlton
Northeast Orthopaedics
mkrpa@nycap.rr.com
Bill Kutzer
The Heart Institute @ AMC
wmkutzer@aol.com
Thomas Lahut
St. Peter’s Hospital Emergency Department, Albany
TLahut@nycap.rr.com
Mark Sullivan
St. Mary’s Hospital Emergency Room, Troy
Mark46er@nycap.rr.com
Shannon Thompson
Goodman Diabetes Service, Albany Medical Center
sthomp10@nycap.rr.com
If logistical problems or other complications occur, please feel free to contact the PA Alumni Association for any concerns.
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