<p>I'm really considering becoming a physician assistant but i heard that to get accepted into pa school you need to have prior experience in the medical field. i'm not sure if i should take a gap year for this and become some low level medical worker like a medical or nurses assistant or if i should get experience in college. how am i supposed to get experience working in the medical field if i don't have any medical training because i'm majoring in something non medical related? do they expect people to take time off to learn some new low paying trade and then apply to pa school? where am i supposed to get good medical experience during college?</p>
<p>First of all, stop saying low so many times; it makes you sound incredibly condescending. The jobs you are referring to are actual jobs that some people do for a living. </p>
<p>Second, they do expect you to get experience in the field before applying. For many schools, volunteering work at the hospital might not even cut it. What that means is that you’d have to apply to be an emt or something while in school if you don’t want to take that gap year. And another thing, your major is irrelevant to getting these experience. Unless you are going to a trade school, no major is going to give you medical experience that pa program wants you to have.</p>
<p>ok, sorry if you’re offended…i only said it like twice.
also, what do you propose i call them then?
i’ve never heard of anyone else say the phrase “low paying” is rude or condescending. it’s like saying “minimum wage”.</p>