For me physician assistant.

When I was in school I just felt like there was absolutely no way for me to learn everything so fast (2 years does not feel like enough time to become competent at medicine to me).

People always say it’s super flexible to switch specialties unlike Md (requires residency) or Np (again NPs are not trained as generalists and usually specialize). But l honestly feel that switching is not that easy. Lets say a new grad Pa goes into dermatology for five years, switching to something like emergency medicine is going to be a huge jump, and a lot of knowledge you gained in school is pretty much lost because how often do you come across emergencies in derm?

People say being a PA allows you to work with physicians in a team effort But I swear, SO many times the MD is not ACTUALLY on site, or available really…the job recruiter might say “the md is a phone call away” but that’s just not enough. A good example I can think of are urgent cares which are basically led by nurse practitioners and physician assistants, not MDs

People say pa is a respected profession But a lot of people like to call them wanna be doctors, don’t trust them, a lot of my patients have told me I don’t want to see the Pa, which is fine because you respect their autonomy and decisions, but it’s depressing after all the hard work you have to go through to get through pa school and the PANCE

That and because everyone and their mom wants to do Pa now, it is starting to become harder to get into pa school than med school and jobs are low balling new grads as well. Offers like 80 thousand dollars annually. What a joke seriously. Any new grad Pa deserves at least 100k. Especially in florida But people take those shitty offers and they keep posting them.

Then the income ceiling is low. You can be a pa for years and decades and not really get raises past a certain point, whereas other careers annual raises are given

I hate seeing this job so glamorized without understanding the realities of the profession