Personal Statement Please respond to each of the following five items. Each resp

Personal Statement
Please respond to each of the following five items. Each response should not exceed 400 words.
1. The USC Primary Care PA Program’s Mission states:
The USC Primary Care Physician Assistant Program is dedicated to the advancement of physician
assistant education and emphasizes service to the medically underserved. The Program is
committed to preparing students from a wide variety of backgrounds to practice medicine with the
supervision of a physician. Emphasis is placed upon understanding and appreciating diversity. The
Program aims to prepare its graduates to practice and promote primary health care of the highest
quality as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Please explain how you envision fulfilling this Mission as a graduate of this program.
2. Why have you chosen to apply specifically to the USC Primary Care PA Program?
3. Have you shadowed or worked alongside a PA?
If yes – In what discipline did you shadow? (Fam med, IM, EM, peds, etc…)
What did you learn from your shadowing experience regarding the PA profession? The role of a
PA? Your commitment to training at our Program in particular?
yes i have shadow a pa in orthopedics
4. Have you considered or been trained in another health care profession? If your response is yes,
what factors influenced your decision to pursue the PA profession versus your initial choice? If your
response is no, what attracted you to the PA profession?
yes in a chiropractors office