Residency | Working with PAs in Surgery

Hi everyone! So these past two weeks I was able to work with PAs during surgery. I've always told premed that as a PA, it was in your scope of practice to do surgeries. Up until these past two weeks, I did not understand the extend of surgeries PAs assisted in.

I did a little talk about this on my snap chat but if you missed it:

PAs get to assist surgeons (first assist) during surgery but they will never get to do surgeries on their own. At least not to my knowledge. During the surgeries that I was in, the PAs assisted by retracting the tissues/ligaments, suction the smoke and extra blood, and at the end they sutured the skin together.

The moral of the story is - if you are going into medicine to do surgery. I do not think surgery as a PA will fill that void. Unless all you want to do is close the skin after the surgeon has complete the surgery. It is great that PAs only have 2 years of schooling and that they get to jump around in different specialties - but they never have full responsibility for a patient. Nor do they have the final say in the clinical decision making.

So Physician vs. PA - that just depends on what you find fulfilling in a career. Hope you enjoyed the video.
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A Day in the life of a Doctor Mom | Sports Med : https://youtu.be/EI1-khDVZHA

Ortho Surgery | Out Patient : https://youtu.be/ZZIkvtCeRuE

FM Resident doing surgery rotations : https://youtu.be/P_dDzBHiWWM

Orthopedic Surgery Rotation : https://youtu.be/flIoyXGih9w

Residency | PEDS Rotation : https://youtu.be/vyqEvhCCsEI

A Day in the Life of Baby Wyatt : https://youtu.be/1_TcVO7kNsE

24 hrs as a Doctor with a Newborn | Pediatrics : https://youtu.be/Qj4P6o6zhgg

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