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Didactic Year
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 Didactic 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 Didactic Year. Take a look and learn something new.
A Conversation With the Magical Dr. Dara Kass
Magical is how I would describe Dr. Dara Kass. She is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, where she also serves as the director of Equity and Inclusion for the Emergency Department. After completing her residency at SUNY Downstate Medical School and Kings County Hospital, she served as faculty of read more…
A Conversation With Dr. Lewis Goldfrank That I Will Cherish for the Remainder of My Life
Today’s conversation has been a long time in the making. There is no justice I can do in this introduction to Dr. Lewis Goldfrank that would convey the impact he has had not only on me, but on the world. Dr. Goldfrank is the former chairman of the department of emergency medicine at New York read more…
New Coronavirus Song: A COVID-19 Public Service Announcement
Over the last few days, we’ve been working with Cleavon MD, an emergency medicine physician on the COVID-19 frontlines in New York City, to create this informative and important public service announcement. Please watch and share with all of your family and friends, especially anyone 18 to 40 years old who needs to see this! read more…
A Physician’s Personal Experience with Coronavirus
Anything said in advance of a pandemic seems alarmist. After a pandemic begins, anything one has said or done is inadequate. –Michael Leavitt, former US Secretary of Health As news surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to evolve at breakneck speed, I have watched firsthand via social media as my physician colleagues work tirelessly to read more…
How to Maintain Strong Relationships During PA School
It has been said there is an art and a science to medicine. The same consideration should be said for relationships when one or both individuals are studying medicine. In large part, I attribute the joy of being accepted and graduating from a physician assistant program to my husband’s support. In fact, we celebrated our read more…
How I Paid Down My Student Loan Debt
I have made almost every financial mistake that new physicians should avoid, including going into forbearance and deferment, buying the doctor house and car, not living on a budget, and not prioritizing paying down student loan debt. To be clear, I had significant debt—similar to that of the average graduating medical school student in the read more…
Why We Love Our Customers: The Top Feedback Quotes of All Time
Last year, we wrote about how we have the best customers, and it’s still true. They not only stay calm during a stressful time in their lives, but they continue to send us some of the funniest, heartfelt, and most gracious messages. We can’t keep these notes to ourselves, so here are our favorite customer 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…
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…
How to Increase Your Chances of Winning in the $250 Giveaway
We want to celebrate your efforts with our first ever $250 Giveaway! Share the Rapid Review eBook post and enter to win a $100 gift card and more. 4 winners will be selected on July 12, 2019 We added even more ways to win! You can now like and share our eBook post on Instagram read more…
Why PA Students Should Attend the AAPA Conference
As a second-year student nearing the end of my clinical year, I’m nervous and excited to join the profession I’ve committed myself to for the last two years. As I (and my fellow PA students) embark on this journey, many of us have unanswered questions about what comes after school: Where will I live? Where read more…
How to Write the Perfect Personal Statement
You’ve done it—you’ve made the big decision to go into medicine. Maybe you’re applying to medical school, maybe PA school, or maybe you’ve graduated and now you’re applying to jobs, but it’s time to get started on your applications. As you’re filling out your information and deciding who to use as your references, you hit read more…
Rapid Review Book for PA Students
After more than a year of hard work, Rosh Review is proud to announce what we consider to be the best Rapid Review book for PA students. Now it is time for you to weigh in… Learning and education is a dynamic process, one that is never ending. Once we commit to a life in read more…
Rosh Review and the 2019 AAPA National Medical Challenge Bowl
On Monday, May 20 at 7pm in the Bellco Theatre in Denver, Colorado more than 200 physician assistant students from seventy programs across the country will compete for the rights to claim the 2019 AAPA National Medical Challenge Bowl trophy. We are proud to announce, for the second year, Rosh Review will provide all of read more…
40 Reasons Why Rosh Review Has The Best Customers
If you’ve emailed Rosh Review for anything, from requesting CME to asking for an extension or seeking clarification about which subscription to purchase, it’s likely that you and I have spoken. I’ve handled the majority of Rosh Review’s customer support for the past three years. We operate with the mindset of equanimity, which means staying read more…
Introducing the First, Best, and Only Didactic Qbank for First-Year PA Students
This story begins with a casual discussion at the 2017 PAEA Education Forum in Denver, CO, between a faculty member of a large PA program in the Pacific Northwest who runs her program’s didactic curriculum and myself, Rosh Review’s founder and CEO. Didactic Year Director: “What if there was a Didactic Qbank for our students read more…
Rosh Review Sponsors and Supports TIME’S UP Healthcare
I was inspired and energized at last night’s launch of TIME’S UP Healthcare at the New York Academy of Medicine. I was there as an emergency physician who witnessed gender discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace, as a father who wants my daughter and son to grow up in a world that treats them read more…
The PA Way, Podcast Episode 7: Hyponatremia Part 1
The PA Way, hosted by Allison Callahan, PA-C, is a weekly podcast with the goal to deliver high-quality, high-yield core content learning so you can be strong, fearless, resilient, and ready for taking care of your patients and passing your certification exam. The PA Way will tackle a new topic every episode, covering the most valuable information to gain confidence and improve your knowledge. The PA Way takes a topic from presentation to application. Join us….you’ll be glad you did. This week’s episode focuses on an hyponatremia part 1.
The PA Way, Podcast Episode 6: Treatment of Hypertension
The PA Way, hosted by Allison Callahan, PA-C, is a weekly podcast with the goal to deliver high-quality, high-yield core content learning so you can be strong, fearless, resilient, and ready for taking care of your patients and passing your certification exam. The PA Way will tackle a new topic every episode, covering the most valuable information to gain confidence and improve your knowledge. The PA Way takes a topic from presentation to application. Join us….you’ll be glad you did. This week’s episode focuses on an the most commonly used medications to treat hypertension.
The PA Way, Podcast Episode 5: Hypertension Overview, Diagnosis & More
The PA Way, hosted by Allison Callahan, PA-C, is a weekly podcast with the goal to deliver high-quality, high-yield core content learning so you can be strong, fearless, resilient, and ready for taking care of your patients and passing your certification exam. The PA Way will tackle a new topic every episode, covering the most valuable information to gain confidence and improve your knowledge. The PA Way takes a topic from presentation to application. Join us….you’ll be glad you did. This week’s episode focuses on an overview of hypertension including diagnosis and treatment recommendations.