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CapYear Cast

Join us as we talk about professional medical careers and topics! Our episodes focus on the path to medical (MD) and physician associate (PA) school, gaining and learning from hands-on patient experience, and understanding expectations on the partner/provider side. We speak with some of the smartest people in the room regarding medical/PA school admissions, patient-facing staffing, and current trends in the field, so tune in today! https://capyear.co/ About CapYear: CapYear is a program for the next generation of medical leaders. CapYear offers college graduates patient-facing roles in clinical settings, professional development, and support with their application to graduate medical programs. For graduates, we provide professional training and development to help you be ready for when you start your clinical position. We provide ongoing training and extra support during your clinical experience. Our admissions experts also help support your application to graduate medical programs. For providers, CapYear reduces churn, so you spend less time and money hiring and supporting your clinical staff. We proactively source applicants for your positions from a pool of diverse, college-educated talent looking for clinical positions to launch their careers. Visit our job board, post a job, and let our team get to work! https://jobs.capyear.co/ For more information on gap year placement, medical assistant hiring, or MD/PA school application support, please email us at careteam@capyear.co
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Episodes

Land a Job as a surgical medical assistant

Today on CapYear cast, we speak with Deanna Codling, Director of the Department of Surgery at Lifebridge Health in Baltimore. She shares her perspective on the role of a medical assistant in the Department of Surgery, how to leverage the position to advance your career goals as a prehealth student, and how to land the job. Thanks for listening & subscribe for updates! Graduates (& soon to be graduates) - Get clinical experience and a paycheck! Create your FREE profile on https://capyear....

Dec 01, 202319 min

CapYear Cast - Ashley Hughes, MSPAS, PA-C

Today on the CapYear Cast, we are joined by Ashely Hughes, MSPAS, PA-C. Ashley is the Program Director for Bryant University's Master in Physician Associate Studies program, and she was kind enough to share her time and her insights with us. In this brief interview, Ashley talks about what a competitive program like Bryant's looks for in an aspiring applicant. Besides the undergraduate must-do's like advanced course work and solid a GPA, she discusses several ways for candidates to stand out. Fo...

Apr 28, 202316 min

Teaching Clinical Skills and Mentoring Future Generations with Dr. Bruce Glassman

Today on the CapYear Cast, we talk with Dr. Bruce Glassman of Capital Dermatology, a subsidiary of Advanced Dermatology in Alexandria, Virginia. Dr. Glassman talks about the benefits of hiring pre-health graduates as medical assistants. They bring an energetic and enthusiastic work culture to the office and provide opportunities for education and mentoring by experienced providers. Over the last twenty years, Dr. Glassman has led by example, providing mentorship and helping build the buy-in of o...

Mar 14, 202311 min

CapYear Cast - Team-Based Care with Christopher Wolfgang, MD, PhD & Lindsey Manos, DHSc, PA-C

Today on the CapYear Cast, we are digging into team-based approaches to health care, specifically the MD/PA relationship. We are joined by Dr. Christopher Wolfgang, chief of hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery and professor of surgery at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and CapYear's own Lindsay Manos, PA-C. Dr. Wolfgang and Lindsey worked together for several years in a team-based approach that enabled their practice to book more appointments, decrease wait time, see more patients, and gen...

Jan 31, 202336 min

The PA/MD Journey with Michelle Bomgardner, PA-C, Evan Dilks, PA-C, & Sami Shoucair, MD

Today on the CapYear Cast, we explore the PA/MD journey. We are joined by PA-Cs, Michelle Bomgardner and Evan Dilks, as well as Dr. Sami Shoucair, who will share their experiences and insights on the path to PA/Med school. They'll discuss when healthcare as a career first caught their attention, what made them decide to pursue becoming a PA/MD, and any valuable lessons they've learned along the way. Michelle and Evan also compare their current reality as a PA to what they had imagined it would b...

Jan 17, 202321 min

CapYear Cast - Alli Pocsik- Gap Year Medical Assistant/Future Med Student

Today on the CapYear Cast, our own Dr. Deborah Gutman is joined by Alli Pocsik, a University of Michigan graduate who is spending her gap year working as a medical assistant before heading to medical school. Alli generously shares her experience of being in an active, hands-on role in dealing with patients. She talks about how patient interactions have improved her communication skills, how she progressed from shadowing to being on her own, how practice makes perfect, and how the medical assista...

Dec 08, 20229 min

CapYear Cast - Andrea Lowe, MBA, MHA, PA-C

Andrea Lowe, MBA, MHA, PA-C, joins the CapYear Cast today to discuss the social determinants of health, namely health equality and equity. Andrea talks about the factors that enable health from the ground up and why simple waiting room questions can change the narrative. Andrea's 20-year experience spans boots-on-the-ground operations to hospital leadership, so she knows firsthand how important holistic thinking and PA/NP dynamics are to the overall patient experience. Definitely worth a listen ...

Nov 17, 202215 min

CapYear Cast - Joon Kim, EdD

Today on the CapYear Cast, Joon Kim, EdD, the Senior Director and Instructor of Postbaccalaureate Programs at the Keck Graduate Insitute and the President-Elect of the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions ( NAAHP ), sits down with our own Dr. Deborah Gutman to discuss how to resource your pre-health advisors. NAAHP is an organization devoted to educating and supporting health professions advisors, so there's a ton of good advice, including why admission to med/pa school is...

Nov 07, 202234 min

CapYear Cast - Debra Herrmann, DHSc, MPH, PA-C

Debra Herrmann, DHSc, MPH, PA-C, joins the CapYear Cast today to share five tips for surviving the didactic year at PA school. Not only is Debra a renowned PA educator, but she also has over twenty years of PA experience, so she can easily discuss both the academic and practical side of PA training. If you're interested in picking up some solid gold tips for how to crush the didactic curriculum, tune in! The links mentioned in the recording are below. Questionnaire to find your learning style: h...

Oct 11, 202228 min

CapYear Cast - Lindsey Manos, DHSc, PA-C

Lindsey Manos, DHSc, PA-C, joins the CapYear Cast today for a practical talk about the importance of patient scheduling. Lindsey is not only a strategic advisor and lead educator here at CapYear, she is also a surgical oncology physician assistant at a large academic medical center. In short, she knows her stuff! If you're interested in learning the secret sauce to keeping the inner workings of medical and clinical offices running smoothly, tune in! Thanks for listening & subscribe for updat...

Aug 25, 202213 min

CapYear Cast - Katy Hines, PA-C

Katy Hines, MBA, MS, PA-C joins the CapYear Cast today for a deep dive into the ins and outs of PA school, and she talks about her journey toward choosing the PA path. Katy is not only a Physician Assistant, but she is also an educator, and she shares her thoughts on the process of selecting, applying, and attending PA school. There are more branches on that decision tree than you would assume, so Katy was kind enough to create an awesome (and free!) template to find and track your application t...

Jul 22, 202221 min

CapYear Cast - Dr. Deborah Gutman

Welcome to the inaugural episode of the CapYear Cast! Joining us for our first interview is Dr. Deborah Gutman. Dr. Gutman is an emergency physician at Boston's Brigham & Women's Hospital, the face behind AdmissionsRX.com, and a clinical assistant professor at Brown University. If that weren't enough, she is also a strategic advisor and lead educator here at CapYear. Needless to say, Dr. Gutrman knows medicine and medical school admissions inside and out, and in this conversation, she gets i...

Jun 23, 202218 min
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