We're here at our new state-of-the-art facility. There's two majors. It's PA, and then also OT. So PA stands for "Physician Assistant," and an OT stands for "Occupational Therapist." Our facility is state of the art-- it's brand new. Downstairs, we actually have, we call it a "Sim Lab." We have a labor and delivery unit that can actually take us through, you know, the beginnings all the way through the delivery. And then we also can have like emergencies happen.
Our preceptors and professors actually sit behind kind of a wall and control everything that's going on through a computer, which is pretty cool. The next thing we also have, we call them "Harvey," he's also state of the art, he's brand new. And he lets us listen to different cardiac sounds, whether it's VSC, Pericarditis, different valves, aortic stenosis, and again, they control that from a computer.
This program really focuses on rural medicine, and to then have your facilities in a rural area is huge. As an undergrad, I worked with rural health initiatives within North Carolina as well as abroad that really kind of pushed me to want to be able to continue that work in this program, focusing on rural medicine, provided that foundation for me.
Anyone that's kind of driven to be a PA, I would just say go for it. There is a lack of medical care providers just because of the excess of the numbers that are seeing patients. But I would say definitely follow your dreams, and Pfeiffer is a great place to do that. We offer state-of-the-art facilities, and we also have more one-on-one personal connections with are professors that you might not get other PA programs.
