The PA Is In | Tracy Bingaman | Physician Assistant/Physician Associate/PA-C/PA-S/PA Student

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178: [UNICORN] Drastically Improve Your Life, Job, and Happiness with These Tips Feb 28, 2023

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Being a PA in different positions comes with unique challenges, whether it’s administrative, the patients or the logistics of the hours and demands of the position. Finding a Unicorn job as a PA - where you love who you work with, what you do, and the hours and demands fit your current season of life - is a challenge, for sure.

Melissa Kolowitz is a PA who, after becoming tapped out, drained and taken advantage of by a practice, worked to find her perfect fit position. In this episode, Melissa shares her experience with administration, finding the right fit, and the strategies you can use to overcome issues and become a Unicorn PA, too.

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177: [PA] How Going Part Time as a PA Changed My Life Feb 23, 2023

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I always wore full time working motherhood like a badge of honor. I worked full time for the first 10 years of my career as a surgery PA and during that time experienced healthcare burnout in a big way.

When it was time to renegotiate my contract this year, instead of asking for more money I asked for fewer patient contact hours. On today’s episode I’m sharing how this decision changed myself, impacted my identity, improved my relationships and the financial impacts on our family.

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176: [PA] How to Break into Industry as a PA with Sarah Mowery, PA-C Feb 21, 2023

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Is breaking into industry, landing a job as a medical science liaison (MSL), drug rep, or doing research been on your radar, but you feel like you haven’t understood the options and how to make it happen?

Sarah Mowery is a Senior Conduct Project Manager and works in Clinical Trial Services where she helps the design, development and deployment of new clinical operations and therapeutic areas. She shares how she was able to break into roles in technology, clinical research, and product development. After this episode you’ll be able to see the next best step in their situation to land an atypical role as a PA.

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175: [WORK] Negative Feedback? Ask Yourself These 4 Questions Feb 16, 2023

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Want to receive feedback gracefully and gratefully? These four questions are the basis of turning negative feedback into positive professional change.

Asking these questions of yourself, about the feedback you received, and where to go from here is a way that you can be intentional about improvement. What would it look like to take that feedback in stride and take it from frustrating to constructive? Press play to find out.

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174: [PA] The Current Situation with PAs in PR - What You Need to Know Feb 14, 2023

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Have you ever wondered what it’s like to practice medicine in another country… but the unknown of how to get licensed and how PAs are perceived by patients and treated by collaborating physicians is keeping you stuck? Let me introduce you to my friends Laura Juarez and Kimberly Weikel who are shining a light on the hurdles that Physician Associates wanting to serve the people of Puerto Rico are facing.

We’re talking about how things need to change so that PAs can help provide healthcare that is desperately needed to the 3 million people living on the island of PR. Ready to zoom out of your own life and look outside your immediate community to see the needs of the world at large? Let’s do this.

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BONUS [BTS] To Call Out or Not Call Out When Your Kid is Sick: Here’s How to Decide Feb 11, 2023

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Take a peek behind the curtain to find… germs and a reminder of your (and my) humanity. Working parenthood meets medicine and the demands that come with both can be a stressful, anxiety-provoking situation.

If you have young kids, ones that attend daycare, go to birthday parties or experience the outside world, your young kids are going to get sick. If you have a job and someone (or 20 patients) are counting on you to show up at work, then what do you do when one of your kids is sick.

I’m sharing my unfiltered, human thoughts on how to ditch mom guilt, call out and be with your kids when the need arises.

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173: [LIFE] Your Biggest Q’s About Functional Medicine and Emotional Eating Answered Feb 09, 2023

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When COVID happened, Amber realized that her pace of running, coaching, working as a Critical Care PA and burning the candle at both ends wasn’t sustainable. She pivoted into the field of functional medicine and has paired her love of health and wellness with her medicine experience.

Functional medicine is a root cause form of medicine. The functional medicine provider will work to uncover the why - the reason for the symptoms, not simply treating the symptoms themselves. Western Medicine is limited in it’s ability to investigate and discover the underlying cause of a problem. “Where can these symptoms be coming from?” is the question that your functional medicine provider will seek to answer.

MEET AMBER https://www.ambermbender.com

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172: [WORK] Networking 101: The Secret Weapon of Strategic Career Moves Feb 07, 2023

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When I tell you about this secret weapon that I’ve been using in my career, that has landed me jobs, founded friendships and created connections, I mean it! I can’t keep something this good a secret, so I’m sharing all about networking on today’s episode. I’ve leveraged networking, but not in the way you think, at each and every turn of the winding road that has been my career as a PA. Okay, okay, before you roll your eyes and say YES, I *know* all about “networking” at open houses with Hors D'oeuvres and socializing, you have to hear my hot take on networking. It’s more than formal events. There are opportunities to network throughout your day. Networking is an essential ingredient in making strategic career moves. Want to learn more and see how networking can catapult your job, profession and yourself forward? Press play. FREE COACHING CALL https://calendly.com/the-pa-is-in/free 1-HOUR COACHING CALL https://calendly.com/the-pa-is-in/coaching SHOW NOTES https://tracybingaman.com/blog/ TRACY ON INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/mrstracybingaman/ ON LINKEDIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracybingaman/ PA PERSONALITY QUIZ https://www.tracybingaman.com/type

171: [PA] 7 Benefits of AAPA Membership Feb 02, 2023

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If you’re going to make a decision about something, that decision should be well informed. Just like reviewing an informed consent with a patient where we cover the risks, benefits and alternatives, you should understand what you’re missing out on if you aren’t a member of the AAPA.

These are the top 7 benefits to being a member of the AAPA and why getting plugged into the network and advocacy efforts of the American Academy of Physician Associates should matter to you.

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170: [UNICORN] What’s it Like Being a Radiation Oncology PA? Joann Timberlake Tells All Jan 31, 2023

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There are less than 200 PAs working in the US in Radiation Oncology and Joann Timberlake is one of those. Starting a job in a new specialty, especially one so sparsely populated with PAs, is intimidating. Luckily Joann was willing to share with us how she broke into this role, transitioned out of the ER and into Rad Onc and what that process was like for her.

I wanted to invite her on the podcast to share more about what her life is like now vs. when she was working shift work in the Emergency Department. There were growing pains with having to prove her abilities, that she is a trustworthy partner in the care of these cancer patients and the incredible value she can add to her Radiation Oncology physician partners. Joann aims to treat the entire patient; mind, body, spirit and soul in her practice and you aren’t going to want to miss her sharing her servant spirit and heart for patients and their excellent care.

Memorial Radiation Oncology Group & OC CyberKnife.
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