PA School

The second week of May 2006, just 2 weeks after I graduated from Utah State and then moved down to Salt Lake, I started Physician Assistant school at the University of Utah. I applied with 600 other candidates for only 36 positions and was lucky enough to get in on the first try! I am also the baby of the class :)
In school, we are set up into groups of four to learn physical examination techniques. My group was fantastic. Mari Daly is a local PA who is one of the nicest people I have ever met. She was a great instructor.

After one year of grueling classes from 8 to 5 every day of the week in the same classroom with no windows, we are released into the community to do our clinical training. We even get cool white coats to wear - aren't they sexy?

In PA school, I made 3 of the best friends I could ever hope for. It started out as the "brain trust" studying for hours on end until the early hours of the morning, even sleeping over at each other's houses so that we could get up early and study again in the morning. It sounds really aweful but actually was a lot of fun. We would have a smorgesborg of food and candy and break off into tangents and laugh like crazy. I learned a lot about each of them through studying and they are all 3 very amazing people. We are all great friends and do a ton together now including camping, BBQ, and traveling. 3 of us are taking our spouses to AK for our graduation trip. Even our spouses have become great friends. I couldn't be more lucky.

L to R: Krissa, Amanda, Jen.

I like this pic! Uai was in my clinical group and was voted most likely to go into gynecology, with his LARGE manly hands and the biggest speculum I have ever seen (and I have seen a few in my day)!