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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 Physician Assistant 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 Physician Assistant. Take a look and learn something new.
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…
New Boost Exam: Fundamentals of Clinical Ultrasound for PAs
The use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is now common practice in the clinical setting. Get a high-yield review of the most commonly encountered POCUS scans including abdominal, ocular, cardiac, pelvic, thoracic, vascular, cutaneous, and FAST ultrasounds with our new Boost Exam: Fundamentals of Clinical Ultrasound. Here is a sample question from the module: Which of 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…
Brandon Carius, PA-C, Winner of the SEMPA/Rosh Review One Step Further Award
We are proud to announce the 2019 winner of the SEMPA/Rosh Review One Step Further Award as Brandon Carius, PA-C, of Brooke Army Medical Center. The One Step Further award is given to an EMPA who exemplifies the ideals of continuous learning and self-improvement, and who takes it upon themselves to go “one step further” read more…
How I Successfully Made a Career Transition in Medicine
Life transitions always take some adjustment…even when they’re exciting changes. Moving, expanding your family, getting a new job—you’ll go through many revisions throughout your lifetime. Sometimes they’re planned and expected, and sometimes they’re not, but each transition requires you to get out of your comfort zone. One of my big life changes was a decision 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…
How to Study for the PANCE Exam: 3 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…
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…
The PANCE Just Got Harder to Pass. How Does This Affect You?
[Updated 1/15/2020] Since this post originally appeared on June 30, 2019, thousands of PANCE scores have been reported. As expected, the PANCE passing rate dropped to approximately 93% for first-time test takers. Year Pass Rate 2015 96% 2016 96% 2017 97% 2018 98% 2019 93% Back in January 2019, the NCCPA released an updated Content read more…
How I Kept a Career in Medicine as a Stay-at-Home Parent
Like many of you, my background is in health care: I have my Certified Nursing Assistant and EMT certifications as well as a Doctor of Chiropractic degree. Those of us who work in medicine have a passion for science and people, which almost always means leaving home to go to work each day. When you 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…