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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My niece is about to start  in PA school this fall. I don’t think she had aspirations to be a medical doctor, but was always interested in physical therapy and other roles related to sports medicine and orthopedics. She is an athlete.

Maybe the popularity of PAs has grown in the past few years because I had never really paid attention to PAs in the medical setting until my niece started pursuing it. She graduated 2 years ago and was behind in the process so spent the past few years working as a medical assistant and taking biology pre-reqs and getting “patient hours”.

From my understanding PA and medical Dr are pretty different. She says she will pretty much be able to do A lot of the procedures that doctors can, but will also have a lot of restrictions as well. But after four years of undergrad, 2.5 gap years taking classes and working for minimum wage, she can go to school and graduate with her masters in 2 years and start working…. So about 9 years total. She’s studying a lot and we are all rooting for her.

A doctor has a different path - a lot more schooling and in-depth knowledge and responsibility - with the main difference being at least 12 years of schooling and residency. [/quote] why didn't she do a DPT?[/quote]

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