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The Rosh Review blog provides study and exam prep tips, interviews, and deep dives for physicians, NPs, PAs, residents, and students. Below you’ll find a list of the blog posts that highlight our PA Clinical Year content. Take a look and learn something new—we’re here every step of your career.
The Rosh Review blog provides study and exam prep tips, podcasts, and more for physicians, NPs, PAs, residents, and students. Below you’ll find a list of the blog posts that highlight Clinical Year. Take a look and learn something new.
Can You Interpret This Chest X-Ray & Correctly Manage the Condition?
Welcome to the next episode of The Reveal where we take you inside the mind of a test-taker to deconstruct and connect the dots of a board-style question so you can become a better student, transform how you learn, and excel not only on high-stakes exams, but also in your general medical knowledge. Let’s get read more…
Try This Challenging Board Review Question About Hematologic Disorders
Welcome to the next episode of The Reveal where we take you inside the mind of a test-taker to deconstruct and connect the dots of a board-style question so you can become a better student, transform how you learn, and excel not only on high-stakes exams, but also in your general medical knowledge. Let’s get read more…
I Love Working as a Cardiology PA. Is It the Right Specialty for You?
Cardiology is an exciting and rapidly evolving field of medicine. As America ages, the roles of a PA-C in cardiology continue to expand. They can be found in an office, hospital, and operating room, working in both adult and pediatric care. So whether ECGs excite you or send you running for help, cardiology can still read more…
Test Your Knowledge About Acute Coronary Syndrome
Welcome to the next episode of The Reveal where we take you inside the mind of a test-taker to deconstruct and connect the dots of a board-style question so you can become a better student, transform how you learn, and excel not only on high-stakes exams, but also in your general medical knowledge. Let’s get read more…
What Is the Most Likely Diagnosis for This Urologic Emergency?
Welcome to the next episode of The Reveal where we take you inside the mind of a test-taker to deconstruct and connect the dots of a board-style question so you can become a better student, transform how you learn, and excel not only on high-stakes exams, but also in your general medical knowledge. Let’s get read more…
Answer This Challenging Question About Lung Cancer & Hypercalcemia
Welcome to the next episode of The Reveal where we take you inside the mind of a test-taker to deconstruct and connect the dots of a board-style question so you can become a better student, transform how you learn, and excel not only on high-stakes exams, but also in your general medical knowledge. Let’s get read more…
Here’s How to Become a Dermatology PA. Is It the Right Specialty for You?
If you regularly proclaim the benefits of petroleum jelly as a skin moisturizer and think it is superior to antibiotic ointment for wounds, dermatology may be the right PA specialty for you. My interest in dermatology stems from a curiosity about the weird red bumps on the back of my arms (keratosis pilaris), my dry read more…
Can You Diagnose & Manage This Woman’s Lower Abdominal Pain?
Welcome to the next episode of The Reveal where we take you inside the mind of a test-taker to deconstruct and connect the dots of a board-style question so you can become a better student, transform how you learn, and excel not only on high-stakes exams, but also in your general medical knowledge. Let’s get read more…
Do You Know the Most Common Symptom of Hemorrhoids? Try This Question
Welcome to the next episode of The Reveal where we take you inside the mind of a test-taker to deconstruct and connect the dots of a board-style question so you can become a better student, transform how you learn, and excel not only on high-stakes exams, but also in your general medical knowledge. Let’s get read more…
How Much Do You Know About Diagnosing Urinary Tract Infections?
Welcome to the next episode of The Reveal where we take you inside the mind of a test-taker to deconstruct and connect the dots of a board-style question so you can become a better student, transform how you learn, and excel not only on high-stakes exams, but also in your general medical knowledge. Let’s get read more…
The 7 Steps I Followed When Changing Careers
When you think of Rosh Review, what do you imagine? Emergency Medicine…Physician Assistant…OB/GYN…Family Medicine…Internal Medicine…Marine Biology… Wait, what? Marine biology? When you look through the qualifications of the Rosh Review team, you may be surprised to find a marine biologist here. We even have an ornithologist and a botanist, too! So what are these ecologists read more…
What Is the First-Line Treatment for This Patient’s Eye Pain?
Welcome to the next episode of The Reveal where we take you inside the mind of a test-taker to deconstruct and connect the dots of a board-style question so you can become a better student, transform how you learn, and excel not only on high-stakes exams, but also in your general medical knowledge. Let’s get read more…
Everything You Should Know About Buzzwords on the PANCE and PANRE
Historically, PA classes and exams are replete with “buzzwords”—key words or phrases that are associated with particular diagnoses. And the thinking is, if you know the buzzwords, you’ll score higher on your exams. Meanwhile, there is talk that the boards are moving away from including buzzwords in their questions. Whether this is the case or read more…
10 Ways to Prevent or Reduce the Effects of Burnout in Medicine
Talk of burnout among medical professionals is everywhere these days: in medical blogs, in peer-reviewed journal articles, in CME courses, in online courses, and in the news. We can’t avoid hearing about the high rates of burnout, depression, and suicide. I have experienced burnout twice in my career in medicine. The first time was in read more…
Everything You Need to Know About How to Become a PA in Emergency Medicine
So you want to be an emergency medicine physician assistant (EMPA)? Here are some things you should consider when making the decision, what you’ll need to prepare, and resources to help you out (even an emergency medicine PA Qbank). History of PAs in EM PAs have practiced in EM and health science since the PA read more…
How I Rocked My Pediatrics Rotation Exam
So you have to take the Pediatrics End of Rotation™ Exam (EOR™)… Perhaps you have children, take care of a little one, or have no exposure to kids aside from the five weeks spent at your clinical site getting sneezed and urinated on. Either way, this article will hopefully help you prep for the daunting PAEA read more…
My Favorite Resources for Passing Your Rotation Exams
Clinical rotations are exciting—finally you get to practice what you’ve spent all of didactic year learning about! But, they also come with their own challenges: the PAEA End of Rotation™ Exams (EOR™). I have completed three rotations thus far into my clinical year: women’s health, general surgery, and internal medicine. I passed all three of read more…
The Rotation Exam Study Strategy I Used to Rock My Exams
PAEA End of Rotation™ Exams can be grueling and intimidating, but with the right tools and techniques, there’s no need to worry! You can use many study techniques and habits to be successful and confident when taking your exams. Visual, auditory, kinesthetic—different learning styles are better for each learner, and it is important to adapt read more…
My Foolproof PANCE Study Strategy
I graduated from Clarkson University’s Physician Assistant program in May 2018 and am a Family Care Physician Assistant in a small, rural, underserved Upstate New York town. I took my PANCE 2 weeks after graduation and PASSED, so I started working on July 1st. All of my friends who graduated the year before me said read more…
The 3 Study Tips I Used to Pass the PANCE
Nobody gets to be a certified PA just for having good bedside manners. If you don’t practice, you don’t pass your PA exams; as a historically poor test taker, this meant months of anxiety and stress leading up to the PANCE. I felt that no matter what method I was using, I couldn’t be sure read more…