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You are here: Home / Downloads / How to Write Your Physician Assistant Personal Statement: The Workbook

How to Write Your Physician Assistant Personal Statement: The Workbook

March 21, 2017 By Stephen Pasquini PA-C

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HOW TO WRITE YOUR PA ESSAY WORKBOOK COVERTwelve PA school admissions directors interviews and twelve rules to writing your physician assistant personal statement

Learning what Admissions Directors and PA school faculty want in your personal statement is only the first step!

We have created this accompanying workbook to help you put this advice into action.

Twelve interactive workbook chapters to make your essay shine

  1. Know your audience - how to know the program(s) you are applying to, and what they are Looking for in an applicant
  2. It was a dark and stormy night in the back of the ambulance - how to cut the drama
  3. When I was 10 I had my tonsils removed - finding your focus
  4. "I have a passion to serve" - avoiding platitudes
  5. What? You could have been a doctor? Why PA?
  6. So, you volunteered at a food pantry
  7. It's not only about what you want
  8. I bombed my junior year and other abnormalities
  9. This isn't your first rodeo - how to approach reapplying
  10. Getting from A-2 and connecting the dots
  11. Writing is rewriting - editing your personal statement
  12. Little things are big - spelling and grammar errors that are unacceptable

Note: This is a companion to our book How to Write Your Physician Assistant Personal Statement (available on Amazon)

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About Stephen Pasquini PA-C

Stephen has been a family practice PA since 2004 and is the creator of The PA Life and Smarty PANCE Board Review websites. A National Health Service Corps Scholar and a graduate of The University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ (Rutgers) PA Program and the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. Stephen's goal is to provide one-of-a-kind online resources for those interested in or practicing in the PA profession, to promote better access to healthcare for all, and foster universal recognition/awareness of the PA profession. Read more about Stephen.

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