How to Ace the Physician Assistant School Interview, 2nd Edition
<p><em>By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.</em><br> <strong>Benjamin Franklin</strong></p><p>Congratulations! You’ve been invited for a physician assistant school interview. You’ve likely spent the past several years taking classes, volunteering, obtaining medical experience, shadowing, accomplishing your CASPA application, and writing a killer essay to get here.</p><p>However, your work is not over; in fact, it is just beginning. The weaker applicants have been ruled out, and now you will be going up against the best of the best! You have two choices at this point: you can try to <em>wing it</em> and be another faceless drone at your interview, or you can <em>prepare</em> and become the <em>Perfect Applicant.</em This book will help you become the latter.</p><p><strong>Written by Andrew J. Rodican, PA-C, author of <em>Getting into The Physician Assistant School of Your Choice.</em>, Andrew is a graduate of the Yale University School of Medicine Physician Associate Program.</strong> Andrew is a former Yale admissions committee member, a Clinical Adjunct Instructor at the Quinnipiac University PA program, and has been coaching PA school applicants since 1996.</p><p><strong><em>How to Ace the Physician Assistant School Interview (First Edition)</em> has ranked #1 on amazon.com</strong> <strong>since 2011</strong>. This book has already helped thousands of PA school applicants knock’em dead at their interviews, and it can help you too.</p><p>This SECOND EDITION is completely updated and revised. It includes everything from the first edition, including all new material:</p><ul><li> How to become the <em>Perfect Applicant.</em>The fact is, every PA program has specific <em>Qualities<em> they look for in applicants they accept to their program. You’ll learn the <em>Perfect Applicant</em> formula that will teach you how to incorporate these <em>Qualities</em> into every answer you provide. li><li>How and where to find these <em>Qualities</em> for any program. HINT: they are <em>not</em> only found on the program’s website!</li><li>How to master the author’s Tailoring Method. Learn a precise formula to help you infuse <em>Qualities</em> into every answer, for any program.</li><p>Also included in this book are over seventy of the toughest interview questions and answers most commonly asked by the admissions committee: Traditional Questions, Behavioral Questions, Situational Questions, Ethical Questions, Hypothetical Questions, and Illegal Questions. All of the answers demonstrate the <em>Perfect Applicant</em> formula.</p><p>There is also entire chapter dedicated to the Multiple Mini Interview (MMI). The MMI is becoming more common and requires a lot of preparation and practice to master. The purpose of the MMI is to evaluate interpersonal skills, soft skills, professionalism and ethical/moral judgment.</p><p><strong>So why go it alone?</strong> Take advantage of the author’s twenty-nine years’ experience and <em>Ace</em> your PA school interview!