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CAREER VITAL SIGNS
INTRO When assessing a patient’s state of wellness or illness, one of the most important things that we collect are the vital signs: temperature, heart rate, blood pressure,…
NEGOTIATING FOR MORE: How to recognize and build leverage
NOT JUST SWEET-TALKING Fine, I’m just going to come right out and say it: Don’t let any talking heads convince you that the only thing standing between you…
SHAYNE’S FAVORITE PRIMARY CARE RESOURCES
In 10 years of primary care and urgent care medicine, I’ve vetted quite a few resources, and have some personal favorites. I figured I would share those with…
Career | Career Advice | Jobs
APPLICATION ESSENTIALS FOR PAs
Sometimes the inertia of creating your resume, CV, clinical summary and cover letters can be hard to overcome. If you’re soon-to-be-graduating, you may be getting ready to apply…
SAGE ADVICE IN OUR INTERVIEW OF CREIGHTON PA PROGRAM DIRECTOR, STEPHANE VANDERMEULEN
Since we started doing interviews for our blog, we’ve had a desire to interview a PA Program Director. Given that we work with so many 1st and 2nd…
How to Optimize Negotiating a Raise
Negotiating for a raise during the interview process is much different than negotiating for a raise once you are at a job. A lot goes into getting a raise, but…
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Getting those requisite 1-2 years of experience
Tell me if this sounds familiar: You’re graduating soon and looking for jobs, reading through postings that sound great, only to scroll down further and find the dreaded…
Career | Career Advice | Jobs
JOB POSTINGS: What you need to know
We all look at job postings. Perhaps you’re a clinical year PA student and searching for your first job…how exciting and overwhelming at the same time! Or, you…
Why I turned down the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Loan Repayment
The National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program can be a great opportunity to pay back your student loans. I was very excited to apply for the program…
A JIMMY OF ALL TRADES
OUR INTERVIEW WITH JIMMY G. FROM PA COLLECTIVE We are particularly excited to share with you our interview with Jimmy G., who many of you may recognize as…
PABP INVESTIGATION: Wood-Fired Morale Boosting in Healthcare
Most of you probably associate us at The PA Blueprint with our ground-breaking work on career optimization for PAs and other medical professionals. While that remains our primary…
GUEST POST: Beth and Katie from Pre-PA Clinic
THE PA BLUEPRINT: As we’ve said previously, one our of favorite aspects of being PA-preneurs is connecting with our colleagues in this space, and we’ve really enjoyed our…