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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s still one year longer than PA school..[/quote]

It’s my understanding that a certain amount of clinical hours are required prior to even applying to PA school; many have been EMTs, etc. I work in a hospital and the PAs tend to be very good, at least anecdotally.

I did not realize this about NPs; I’ve had very good experiences with them in the past.[/quote]

Not all PA schools require clinical hours and the ones that do, those can be a very wide range of things that are not going to provide high level learning.  Since they aren’t certified to anything related to actually caring for patient, those clinical hours are typically things like being a scribe, medical assistant or CNA (if they get certified). And don’t think EMT training is all that amazing.  It isn’t. The vast majority of their time is spent sitting in parking lots or dealing with non emergency BS calls from mobile home parks.

I’d much rather have an NP that worked as an actual bedside nurse for years before going to NP school.  WAY better education and well-rounded provider.  But since now this isn’t the case with all of them as the OP points out, that does create a dilemma.  
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