It's Time for ARC-PA to Support PA Students

Rutgers PA Program Class of 2020 We need and deserve guidance during this time! Please help us graduate on time and join the work force!

University of Toledo 2nd year PA student.

Please take care of the PA students.

We are ready to join the front lines to help our overwhelmed colleagues battle COVID-19. Unfortunately we can't practice medicine without being licensed, and to be licensed we need to be able to take the PANCE. I was set to take this exam March 21st, only to have Pearson VUE cancel all March test days; now I have rescheduled it to April 22nd. This has not only pushed back my availability to partake in the workforce to help care for patients, but now I am stuck in limbo. In addition, this will cause a huge gap in availability of new PA-Cs. Please do something about this ARC-PA!

I’m currently Pre PA, planning to apply to PA schools next year and feel that I should support the movement of PA students having more support and answers when it comes to unfortunate and unforeseen event such as the pandemic of the Coronavirus.

This has been heart-breaking for all of these students. Please do whatever you can to help them finish.

Congratulations. Keep up all your good work.

let them test!!!!!

Allow flexibility

This is crucial!!!! We need these PA students to graduate and be able to help in ways that will be needed for a long time.

Thank you

Please!!!!

We also are able hands and bodies to go take care of patients who need help. Why are we taking retired doctors and nurses who are in a higher age group and putting them at risk? Let us young, eager, willing students best graduation to get out and help. You might be surprised by just how resilient we can be. Telling us to go home is not what we want.

Clinical rotations are at a hault indefinitely; need guidance.

We need PA’s now more than ever before!

I am a PA student who is supposed to graduate in May, now with an uncertain graduation date as clerkships are suspended and university graduation ceremonies are canceled left and right. As a future health care professional on the cusp of certification, it is heartbreaking to watch COVID-19 spread across our country (and the world) and at the same time see clinical rotations shut down. As a result, my graduation date is uncertain and I may not be able to join the health workforce in this unprecedented time of need for more health care providers. Other health professions are working to support their students and their practitioners. Some RN programs are fast-tracking their nursing students to graduation. The AAMC has responded and is providing guidance to medical students. The AANP, which represents 290,000 nurse practitioners, recently met with President Trump and “respectfully requested that the administration work expeditiously to lift all federal barriers that today prevent NPs from practicing to the top of their profession.” It seems to me that PA students as well as PAs are not visible, at a time when we could be providing vital health care services in ICUs, ERs, on hospital floors, and showing our country how capable a profession we are. Please provide guidance to PA programs, allowing them to graduate their students as soon as possible.

Please help us graduate. We will he needed in the workforce soon.

I had 7 days of my last elective clinical rotation left. For me to have to reschedule my boards and graduate late because ARC PA is unable to have any flexibility from an act of god is just wrong and does not exhibit the type of healthcare we need in this day an age, which is supportive and pushing our highly trained PA students into the workforce to help

We need to follow how the AAMC is accommodating for the medical students. They are changing amounts of time for rotations and also allowing for students to do online lectures for things to show complete understanding of material.

LET THEM GRADUATE