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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a physician and one of my kids wants to go into medicine I told her that it's a long road however I told her to get her bachelors in something that can be a career by itself like engineering.[b] I definitely told her not to become a nurse practitioner physician assistant because today's nurse practitioners and physician assistants can major in English for 4 years then go to a two year PA or NP school and then do one year residency. so basically they will only have three years of medical training compared to physician who does 4 years of medical school and four years of residency I think society deserves better medical professionals treating them than somebody who has only had three years of any medical experience -yet they can make life and death decisions. [/b]Now NP/PA who are in their 50s/60s- that is a totally different story because most of these people worked as nurses for years so they have medical experience and then later went on to college together PA or NP. I'm very surprised that some MDs up here on this board think that their child would get sufficient education in 3 years of medical training. I personally would mandate being a nurse 5 years before you can go to PA/NP school-for patient safety.[/quote]

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Our daughter is a nursing student in a BSN program with plans to become an NP after working in a clinical environment for a few years.  The nursing program is very concentrated - two years of only nursing classes with plenty of pre-nursing and science classes in the first two years.  She worked as a CNA for a year and has multiple clinicals each semester.  She will graduate with hundreds off hours of clinicals before she ever works as a nurse and then will continue to acquire experience before going to NP school.  I don't know how things are with other students but the students she is going to school with that want to eventually become NPs have a similar plan.
And to even apply to PA school you need at least 1000 clinical hours.[/quote]

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