The results are in...
So my PA results came in. I was selected as an alternate. I do not know how high or low on the alternate list I am. I will try to finnagle that information from the program manager here in a few weeks (I'm sure his email will be full for the next week from the other alternates wondering the same thing). I was super bummed out this morning when I read the list... a horrible sinking feeling came over me. Like nothing I've felt in a while. It was very similar to feeling like I failed miserably at something and I can't do anything about it. So what did I do?
I went and ate breakfast. A big greasy, egg, sausage, hash browns, coffee, and biscuits with gravy breakfast. Upon completion of breakfast I had come to terms with my emotional rut and am doing what I always do when things don't go my way: I figure out a way to make them go my way next time.
I am going to assume (unless I get a favorable email from the program manager) that I will not get picked up this year. I will reapply for the program next March. This Fall I will take that course that I have to. That and gaining clinical experience are the only ways to improve my application. To gain clinical experience I will find a PA at UAB's hospital to shadow and I will attempt to shadow the military PA who wrote my recommendation. If I get selected this year then the clinical experience will only help me and if I don't my application will be more competitive against the combat medics and other active duty health specialists whom I will be competing against next year.
On a side note: I don't think I've ever had as many frustrations or setbacks in any other facit of life as I have in trying to get into this program. Perhaps it will make me appreciate it a lot more when I finally get there.
I went and ate breakfast. A big greasy, egg, sausage, hash browns, coffee, and biscuits with gravy breakfast. Upon completion of breakfast I had come to terms with my emotional rut and am doing what I always do when things don't go my way: I figure out a way to make them go my way next time.
I am going to assume (unless I get a favorable email from the program manager) that I will not get picked up this year. I will reapply for the program next March. This Fall I will take that course that I have to. That and gaining clinical experience are the only ways to improve my application. To gain clinical experience I will find a PA at UAB's hospital to shadow and I will attempt to shadow the military PA who wrote my recommendation. If I get selected this year then the clinical experience will only help me and if I don't my application will be more competitive against the combat medics and other active duty health specialists whom I will be competing against next year.
On a side note: I don't think I've ever had as many frustrations or setbacks in any other facit of life as I have in trying to get into this program. Perhaps it will make me appreciate it a lot more when I finally get there.
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