Physician's Assistant Career Essay

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After studying myself and discovering my several interests, skills and personal characteristics, I have narrowed down my career choice to being a Physician’s Assistant. I know for a fact that I am attending Central Michigan University and going to take part in their Physician’s Assistant certification program. I believe that this career is the best fit for me for many reasons, such as, I know how to deal with people when problems arise, I don’t get bothered by blood or needles and that is a much needed requirement going into the medical field, also throughout my life I have taken health very seriously, and I have dealt with several injuries myself, playing sports as actively as I do, this just means I know how to sympathize with the pain others feel. In this career, I would be working in either a hospital or a doctor’s office, the environment would be consistently busy if I worked in a hospital but slow if I worked in a doctor’s office. Personally, I would want to work …show more content…

Along with having the one on one connection with the patient, I would still perform sutures, splints and deal with minor injuries, which gives me that hands-on satisfaction of working. The fact that my hours would be more flexible and forgiving is a huge benefit to my future because I know that I want to have a family one day and I wouldn’t want to neglect that part of my life. Another benefit to this career is having a stable, consistent income to support myself and my future family which is very important to