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  • Land a Job as a surgical medical assistant

    Land a Job as a surgical medical assistant
    Dec 1 2023
    Today on CapYear cast, we speak with Deanna Codling, Director of the Department of Surgery at Lifebridge Health in Baltimore. She shares her perspective on the role of a medical assistant in the Department of Surgery, how to leverage the position to advance your career goals as a prehealth student, and how to land the job. Thanks for listening & subscribe for updates! Graduates (& soon to be graduates) - Get clinical experience and a paycheck! Create your FREE profile on https://capyear.co/ to find employers looking to hire pre-health graduates and current students. Plus, you can find a growing number of clinical research positions. Applying to Medical or PA school? CapYear offers application support and career advice from physicians, PAs, and nurses to launch your career and make your application for MD/PA school stand out from the crowd. Providers - CapYear saves time and money by proactively sourcing applicants for your positions from a pool of diverse, college-educated talent looking for clinical positions to launch their careers. The future PAs, nurses, and physicians of America can fill many entry-level clinical positions, support your team and help deliver a great patient experience. Visit our job board, post a job, and let our team get to work for you today! https://jobs.capyear.co/ For more information on gap year placement, medical assistant hiring, or MD/PA school application support, please email us at careteam@capyear.co https://capyear.co/ https://jobs.capyear.co/ Transcript:  Hi, everyone, and welcome to the next edition of the CapYear Cast. My name is R. T. Arnold, and with us today is Deanna Codling, Director of the Department of Surgery of LifeBridge Health here in Baltimore. Deanna, welcome to the CapYear Cast. Thanks for having me. You have been a great advocate of hiring pre health students into clinical positions. Most of the people who listen to our podcast are either pre health students or advisors. And we'd love to start a little bit by understanding in the department of surgery, what are the roles that pre health students tend to play? So I have to start by just saying, what we do in a Department of Surgery and ambulatory setting. So 1 role in our department is not touching just 1 item. So our candidates that come through our department have an opportunity to do multiple things that can range from scheduling an appointment and taking the patient back doing the basic vital signs. It can go on to doing education with a patient because we have a lot of education pathways for our patients prior to surgery. It could also mean going on the back end and calling patients after surgery and having a conversation with them. You end up doing a little bit of patient navigation, a little bit of clerical work, and then you have these wonderful one on one relationships with the providers that allow you to really adjust what you do to their nuances, and so they have a lot of opportunity in that regard. Can you tell us a little bit more about that sort of the one on one relationship that starts to get established with the providers Sure so all of our M. A. S. or M. A. A. S. will work with usually a subset of providers. So whether that is our general surgeons with some of the specialists that go with that that specialty. So we have thoracic surgery and colorectal surgery. So you were working directly with that doc. You may be doing their intake of new patients. And so you have to make sure you get those records. And so they're going to be working with you back and forth and saying, Hey, did you get, for instance, a colonoscopy result? Okay. I did, but did you make sure you got. the last two because of whatever. So you get to have that one on one interaction with your docs and a lot of times when you show interest they'll tell you why. Why is that important to seeing a new patient and understanding what's going on with them and their diagnosis and sequelae. So it sounds like there's a lot of opportunity to learn from the physicians directly in the in your department. You take the opportunity. Everything is about initiative here. Everything is about initiative. It's being given an opportunity to have that interaction and then you taking the step to take the initiative to ask for it. Nobody's going to force you to do any of those things, but the opportunity is definitely there. And if you want to take it, it's there for you. And what about with the patients? What's the typical sort of involvement or engagement that pre health students that you've hired have with the patients? So I've seen some great interactions with our pre health students and our patients. One being that they just, they kind of understand some of what's going on with the patient because of the studies that they've done in the past. So when a patient calls with a complaint and they need to just know, is this bad enough for me to go to the ER or not, instead of just saying, go to the ER, I don't have ...
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  • CapYear Cast - Ashley Hughes, MSPAS, PA-C

    CapYear Cast - Ashley Hughes, MSPAS, PA-C
    Apr 28 2023
    Today on the CapYear Cast, we are joined by Ashely Hughes, MSPAS, PA-C. Ashley is the Program Director for Bryant University's Master in Physician Associate Studies program, and she was kind enough to share her time and her insights with us. In this brief interview, Ashley talks about what a competitive program like Bryant's looks for in an aspiring applicant. Besides the undergraduate must-do's like advanced course work and solid a GPA, she discusses several ways for candidates to stand out. For instance, gap years spent gaining patient-facing hours, demonstrating an ability to balance work and school, PA-shadowing, and even tips for how to make your essay stand out. All in all, it's a must-listen for current and future PA-school applicants! Thanks for listening & subscribe for updates! Graduates (& soon to be graduates) - Get clinical experience and a paycheck! Create your FREE profile on https://capyear.co/ to find employers looking to hire pre-health graduates and current students. Plus, you can find a growing number of clinical research positions. Applying to Medical or PA school? CapYear offers application support and career advice from physicians, PAs, and nurses to launch your career and make your application for MD/PA school stand out from the crowd. Providers - CapYear saves time and money by proactively sourcing applicants for your positions from a pool of diverse, college-educated talent looking for clinical positions to launch their careers. The future PAs, nurses, and physicians of America can fill many entry-level clinical positions, support your team and help deliver a great patient experience. Visit our job board, post a job, and let our team get to work for you today! https://jobs.capyear.co/ For more information on gap year placement, medical assistant hiring, or MD/PA school application support, please email us at careteam@capyear.co https://capyear.co/ https://jobs.capyear.co/ Transcript below: John Walkup: Hi, and welcome back to the CapYear Cast. I'm your host, John Walkup, and joining us today is Ashley Hughes. She's the program director for Bryant University's Master of Science and Physician Associate Studies Program. Ashley, welcome to the program. Ashley Hughes, MSPAS, PA-C: Hi, John. Thank you very much. John: I'm glad you could join us. So you've been in this position for about a year now - what drew you to Bryant? Ashley: I had been working in PA education for close to 10 years. I believe it was about seven years in the role of an academic coordinator, and I was looking for a role that I would be able to get into that would allow me to really try to redesign and refine a curriculum a little bit more so than I already was. The opportunity was available at Bryant. They had the position open for the program director. I met with the president of the university and the provost, and they were so incredibly welcoming. They, they're very supportive and understanding of the goals that I had for being able to design the curriculum to a point where, you know, I felt that we would. Be a hundred percent preparing our students for their board examination and let me run with it. So it just seems like a really great fit. John: That's great. Bryant has a unique program. I know you do gross anatomy at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University. There's your 2000 hours of didactic lessons - what sets Brian apart? Ashley: So we actually have a few different areas of the curriculum that are very unique to Bryant. So one of them is, yes, we do send our students to the Brown Anatomy Lab, and that's where they meet with the same instructor that teaches the Brown Medical School students and they have a very condensed anatomy course. I actually teach the history and physical examination course. It's not typical for a program director to be that involved in the education of the program. But I very much enjoy doing so, and I have the entire core faculty involved in that. Lastly, we have what we call an immersive clinical simulation experience. That we have run throughout an entire week for our students where they're in the clinical simulation lab, caring for patients, using the skills that they've learned in the clinical medicine courses, and that is very new for us that we've designed this year, and it's worked out very well, and the students have really liked it and enjoyed the entire time. John: All right, we're going to get into it now. So if you look at any ranking out there, like US news or whatever, a physician associate is usually one of the top jobs, if not the top job. It's always top five. That makes for a lot of competition for limited spots, especially in sought after programs like Bryant. So, from your perspective, you're the program director, I'd like to talk about what makes an ideal candidate for the Bryant University program. Tell me about the characteristics you're looking for in a successful applicant. Ashley: So if you look at our mission statement, our ...
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  • Teaching Clinical Skills and Mentoring Future Generations with Dr. Bruce Glassman

    Teaching Clinical Skills and Mentoring Future Generations with Dr. Bruce Glassman
    Mar 14 2023
    Today on the CapYear Cast, we talk with Dr. Bruce Glassman of Capital Dermatology, a subsidiary of Advanced Dermatology in Alexandria, Virginia. Dr. Glassman talks about the benefits of hiring pre-health graduates as medical assistants. They bring an energetic and enthusiastic work culture to the office and provide opportunities for education and mentoring by experienced providers. Over the last twenty years, Dr. Glassman has led by example, providing mentorship and helping build the buy-in of other providers into the program. The students have the chance to learn clinical skills, and while there is a learning curve, outgoing students share what they have learned with the incoming class. Hence, mentorship and teaching are instilled and reinforced as core healthcare values even before medical school begins, encouraging a desire to learn and mentor future generations. Great stuff! Thanks for listening & subscribe for updates! Graduates (& soon to be graduates) - Get clinical experience and a paycheck! Create your FREE profile on https://capyear.co/ to find employers looking to hire pre-health graduates and current students. Plus, you can find a growing number of clinical research positions. Applying to Medical or PA school? CapYear offers application support and career advice from physicians, PAs, and nurses to launch your career and make your application for MD/PA school stand out from the crowd. Providers - CapYear saves time and money by proactively sourcing applicants for your positions from a pool of diverse, college-educated talent looking for clinical positions to launch their careers. The future PAs, nurses, and physicians of America can fill many entry-level clinical positions, support your team and help deliver a great patient experience. Visit our job board, post a job, and let our team get to work for you today! https://jobs.capyear.co/ For more information on gap year placement, medical assistant hiring, or MD/PA school application support, please email us at careteam@capyear.co https://capyear.co/ https://jobs.capyear.co/ Transcript below: John: Hi, and welcome back to the CapYear Cast. Today we're joined by Dr. Bruce Glassman of Capital Dermatology, which is a subsidiary of Advanced Dermatology. Dr. Glassman, welcome, and thank you for joining us on the CapYear Cast. I what to start with the inspiration behind your practice: hiring pre-health graduates as medical assistants. Dr. Glassman: Great question, John. We do it because it provides a tremendous amount of energy into the office that we just found to be very infectious from a provider's standpoint and a patient's standpoint. The providers come to work, we have eight providers in our office, and they are engaged in teaching and mentoring these young students, which sets a tremendous tone for the office daily. Secondly, it provides us an opportunity to give back to these students in education. It really is something that when you go through your medical training, you're being taught by so many that the chance to give back in a teaching experience is really very rewarding. So, those are the two main items that really make this program extremely worthwhile and make it continue to run year after. John: Let me focus on the first part of that, which is the benefits to the practice. I'm curious, you mentioned they bring this energy, they bring this enthusiasm, but there's also that mentoring aspect. Does it feel like an extra layer of work for the physicians in the practice? And, if so, how do you get that buy-in that's needed to keep this going year to year? Dr. Glassman: It all starts with leadership, and I am 100% focused on providing mentorship for these young students. And again, the positive rewards are just limitless. Years and years of relationships and kids grow. It's really wonderful. So by leading in that way, I get the other providers to pay in because they see how hard I work at it. And ultimately, they see the benefits in the future as well when they see these kids grow up and become PAs and doctors later in their careers. John: Right. Let's focus on the graduate side of the folks you're bringing in. And obviously, there are some benefits here, which is you're getting the, the clinical experience, which is really difficult to get, you're getting that right out of the gate. But the sort of logistics and the practicality aspect of it, I mean, a lot of it, you just have to learn by doing. And I'm curious, was that a bit of a stumbling block for some folks coming in? Or is it the kind of thing that the students pick up relatively quickly? Dr. Glassman: One of the features that we have in the program is that the people who are leaving one year teach the kids to come in the next year. That's chapters seven and eight in the program manual for what you're going to get out of the program. And part of that is the ability to teach others what you've learned, and that's a skill. And they really do take that seriously and embrace ...
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  • CapYear Cast - Team-Based Care with Christopher Wolfgang, MD, PhD & Lindsey Manos, DHSc, PA-C

    CapYear Cast - Team-Based Care with Christopher Wolfgang, MD, PhD & Lindsey Manos, DHSc, PA-C
    Jan 31 2023

    Today on the CapYear Cast, we are digging into team-based approaches to health care, specifically the MD/PA relationship. We are joined by Dr. Christopher Wolfgang, chief of hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery and professor of surgery at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and CapYear's own Lindsay Manos, PA-C. Dr. Wolfgang and Lindsey worked together for several years in a team-based approach that enabled their practice to book more appointments, decrease wait time, see more patients, and generally increase the quality of care provided. In this episode, they talk about that dynamic, why it works, and offer advice for others considering a team-based approach. Fantastic insights from a dream team!

    Thanks for listening & subscribe for updates!

    Graduates (& soon to be graduates) - Get clinical experience and a paycheck! Create your FREE profile on https://capyear.co/ to find employers looking to hire pre-health graduates and current students. Plus you can find a growing number of clinical research positions.

    Applying to Medical or PA school? CapYear offers application support and career advice from physicians, PAs, and nurses to launch your career and make your application for MD/PA school stand out from the crowd.

    Providers - CapYear saves time and money by proactively sourcing applicants for your positions from a pool of diverse, college-educated talent looking for clinical positions to launch their careers. The future PAs, nurses, and physicians of America can fill many entry-level clinical positions, support your team and help deliver a great patient experience. Visit our job board, post a job, and let our team get to work for you today! https://jobs.capyear.co/

    For more information on gap year placement, medical assistant hiring, or MD/PA school application support, please email us at careteam@capyear.co

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  • The PA/MD Journey with Michelle Bomgardner, PA-C, Evan Dilks, PA-C, & Sami Shoucair, MD

    The PA/MD Journey with Michelle Bomgardner, PA-C, Evan Dilks, PA-C, & Sami Shoucair, MD
    Jan 17 2023

    Today on the CapYear Cast, we explore the PA/MD journey. We are joined by PA-Cs, Michelle Bomgardner and Evan Dilks, as well as Dr. Sami Shoucair, who will share their experiences and insights on the path to PA/Med school. They'll discuss when healthcare as a career first caught their attention, what made them decide to pursue becoming a PA/MD, and any valuable lessons they've learned along the way. Michelle and Evan also compare their current reality as a PA to what they had imagined it would be a few years ago. Join us as we delve into the PA/MD journey and gain valuable perspectives on this rewarding career path.

    Thanks for listening & subscribe for updates!

    Graduates (& soon to be graduates) - Get clinical experience and a paycheck! Create your FREE profile on https://capyear.co/ to find employers looking to hire pre-health graduates and current students. Plus you can find a growing number of clinical research positions.

    Applying to Medical or PA school? CapYear offers application support and career advice from physicians, PAs, and nurses to launch your career and make your application for MD/PA school stand out from the crowd.

    Providers - CapYear saves time and money by proactively sourcing applicants for your positions from a pool of diverse, college-educated talent looking for clinical positions to launch their careers. The future PAs, nurses, and physicians of America can fill many entry-level clinical positions, support your team and help deliver a great patient experience. Visit our job board, post a job, and let our team get to work for you today! https://jobs.capyear.co/

    For more information on gap year placement, medical assistant hiring, or MD/PA school application support, please email us at careteam@capyear.co

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  • CapYear Cast - Alli Pocsik- Gap Year Medical Assistant/Future Med Student

    CapYear Cast - Alli Pocsik- Gap Year Medical Assistant/Future Med Student
    Dec 8 2022

    Today on the CapYear Cast, our own Dr. Deborah Gutman is joined by Alli Pocsik, a University of Michigan graduate who is spending her gap year working as a medical assistant before heading to medical school. Alli generously shares her experience of being in an active, hands-on role in dealing with patients. She talks about how patient interactions have improved her communication skills, how she progressed from shadowing to being on her own, how practice makes perfect, and how the medical assistant experience has made her feel more prepared for what's to come in med school. Alli's "clinical pearls" include going in with an open mind, being ok with being imperfect, and asking a lot of questions.

    If you're interested in getting hands-on experience before med/pa school, tune in today!

    Thanks for listening & subscribe for updates!

    Graduates (& soon to be graduates) - Get clinical experience and a paycheck! Create your FREE profile on https://capyear.co/ to find employers looking to hire pre-health graduates and current students. Plus you can find a growing number of clinical research positions.

    Applying to Medical or PA school? CapYear offers application support and career advice from physicians, PAs, and nurses to launch your career and make your application for MD/PA school stand out from the crowd.

    Providers - CapYear saves time and money by proactively sourcing applicants for your positions from a pool of diverse, college-educated talent looking for clinical positions to launch their careers. The future PAs, nurses, and physicians of America can fill many entry-level clinical positions, support your team and help deliver a great patient experience. Visit our job board, post a job, and let our team get to work for you today! https://jobs.capyear.co/

    For more information on gap year placement, medical assistant hiring, or MD/PA school application support, please email us at careteam@capyear.co

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  • CapYear Cast - Andrea Lowe, MBA, MHA, PA-C

    CapYear Cast - Andrea Lowe, MBA, MHA, PA-C
    Nov 17 2022
    Andrea Lowe, MBA, MHA, PA-C, joins the CapYear Cast today to discuss the social determinants of health, namely health equality and equity. Andrea talks about the factors that enable health from the ground up and why simple waiting room questions can change the narrative. Andrea's 20-year experience spans boots-on-the-ground operations to hospital leadership, so she knows firsthand how important holistic thinking and PA/NP dynamics are to the overall patient experience. Definitely worth a listen - great stuff! Thanks for listening & subscribe for updates! Graduates (& soon to be graduates) - Get clinical experience and a paycheck! Create your FREE profile on https://capyear.co/ to find employers looking to hire pre-health graduates and current students. Plus you can find a growing number of clinical research positions. Applying to Medical or PA school? CapYear offers application support and career advice from physicians, PAs, and nurses to launch your career and make your application for MD/PA school stand out from the crowd. Providers - CapYear saves time and money by proactively sourcing applicants for your positions from a pool of diverse, college-educated talent looking for clinical positions to launch their careers. The future PAs, nurses, and physicians of America can fill many entry-level clinical positions, support your team and help deliver a great patient experience. Visit our job board, post a job, and let our team get to work for you today! https://jobs.capyear.co/ For more information on gap year placement, medical assistant hiring, or MD/PA school application support, please email us at careteam@capyear.co https://capyear.co/ https://jobs.capyear.co/ Transcript below: CYC_Andrea_Lowe_v2_-_HD_1080p John Walkup: Hi, and welcome to the CapYear Cast. Today we're joined by rockstar Andrea Lowe. She is a physician assistant. She has a master's in health administration. She also has an MBA. Andrea, welcome to the show. Thank you for taking the time to be here. Why don't you tell our audience a little something about yourself? Andrea Lowe, MBA, MHA, PA-C: Well, first, thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here. As you said, I am a physician assistant (the title has physician associate). I have been practicing for 20 years in emergency medicine. I went into healthcare leadership and administration six years into my career. I've been a director of advanced practice providers, which are basically PAs and NPEs or APRNs, and then, I went in to be a vice president of operations and led hospital operations for six years before going to the American Academy of PAs, which is the PA membership site. So, I've had a lot of experience, and I actually was over medical assistants, scribes, physicians, as well as PAs and NPEs. So I know about the dynamics and how important those healthcare providers are to the whole patient experience. John: Great. Today we're going to be talking about health equity and equality and some of the things that factor into those and why they are so important. I'm going to give the floor to you, of course. Let's talk about health equity and equality. Andrea: I think it's important for all parts of the medical team to understand the importance of health equity and health equality. The first thing I always tell people is that you have to really understand the difference between the two. Health equality is really treating all patients the same. You're promoting fairness, but that really only works if everyone is sort of starting from the same place and needs the same help, which is not always the picture of our healthcare environment. So when we talk about health equity, it's really when all patients and communities have the same opportunity to obtain the highest level of health. But the thing is, it requires the recognition and foresight from everyone on the healthcare team as well as an intentional allocation of resources to help them reach those outcomes. So it's really giving everyone what they need to be successful. And so recognizing health inequities in that space are really the differences in health that are avoidable when you address health equity. John: Right. If you're not used to thinking about health in these sorts of terms, what are some of the things you could do to remind yourself of the difference on a daily basis? Andrea: So you know, especially as PAs and then with what you all are doing at CapYear with medical associates, we're usually the first encounter to the patient in their healthcare and continuum. So understanding things like the social determinants of health is so important. Understanding that barriers to access are very important to recognize. And understanding and treating the patient beyond the healthcare visit. So things as socioeconomic status, access to certain healthcare services, even neighborhood and level stressors, and access to nutritious foods. All of those things contribute to that patient's health and their medical conditions. ...
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  • CapYear Cast - Joon Kim, EdD

    CapYear Cast - Joon Kim, EdD
    Nov 7 2022

    Today on the CapYear Cast, Joon Kim, EdD, the Senior Director and Instructor of Postbaccalaureate Programs at the Keck Graduate Insitute and the President-Elect of the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions (NAAHP), sits down with our own Dr. Deborah Gutman to discuss how to resource your pre-health advisors. NAAHP is an organization devoted to educating and supporting health professions advisors, so there's a ton of good advice, including why admission to med/pa school is much more than just meeting a threshold. Definitely worth a listen if you're involved in pre-health in any capacity!

    Thanks for listening & subscribe for updates!

    Graduates (& soon to be graduates) - Get clinical experience and a paycheck! Create your FREE profile on https://capyear.co/ to find employers looking to hire pre-health graduates and current students. Plus you can find a growing number of clinical research positions.

    Applying to Medical or PA school? CapYear offers application support and career advice from physicians, PAs, and nurses to launch your career and make your application for MD/PA school stand out from the crowd.

    Providers - CapYear saves time and money by proactively sourcing applicants for your positions from a pool of diverse, college-educated talent looking for clinical positions to launch their careers. The future PAs, nurses, and physicians of America can fill many entry-level clinical positions, support your team and help deliver a great patient experience. Visit our job board, post a job, and let our team get to work for you today! https://jobs.capyear.co/

    For more information on gap year placement, medical assistant hiring, or MD/PA school application support, please email us at careteam@capyear.co

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    https://jobs.capyear.co/
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