Rural health care track for Pacific's PA program

Pacific University school of Physician Assistant studies now offers Rural Health Track for PA students! Pacific was awarded a $1 million grant to provide this track for 5 students each year. This is really exciting!

It provides a certificate for students after they graduate on top of their PA completion certificate and Masters degree. Students in the track may also qualify for help with funding their clinical rotations! It's worth mentioning, so I thought I would post an extra little bit about it.

Click here to read more about it

White Coat Ceremony and Summer Break!

Finally got the white coat!! I wont lie it felt really cool to finally be donned with the white coat, and have the graduating class, and the class before us congratulating us on making it here. It really feels good to make it here after all my hard work, even though I know there is still a LOT more work ahead... It still feels great to celebrate little victories, I guess thats a little tip about surviving PA school.

Getting my white coat!               

Pacific's white coat patch

             

So with all of the hard-studying that came with my first semester in PA school... I get a short week (of course much needed and appreciated) of hard-playing! My wife and I have been enjoying all that Portland and the surrounding area has to offer. Its really has surprised me at how much there is to do here! (Another reason why I have LOVED being at Pacific University!)  

Punch-bowl falls 

Punch-bowl falls 

alotto gelato in Portland

I saw this in downtown Portland, thought it was cool

Multnomah Falls

                 

Multnomah Falls

Multnomah Falls

Multnomah Falls

My wife and me at Multnomah Falls

This is the Alpine Slide at SkiBowl on Mt. Hood 

My wife just finishing up her ride on the Slide

The view from the lift

My first time wakeboarding!

Fall semester starts next week, and we are finally getting into the meat of everything! Ear, Nose, and Throat and Dermatology is our first module, and while its going to be a lot of work, its very exciting to get out of fundamentals and onto more in depth material. We also get to use the sim lab for this module as well, this will be our first experience with the sim lab to date and it is really exciting. I'll be sure to tell all about it.