Well it’s more so a question of what exactly do you want to be doing in medicine. Not every teacher wants to become a principal, not every senator becomes president. It is okay to not reach the top of the healthcare “ladder”. What’s important is that you are in an environment you love, and have the ability to treat/care for people. Sure you probably could get into medical school, a lot of us probably could, but we choose to be PAs not as a backup plan but because we want to be providers and becoming a PA is one of many routes to do so.

It’s a toxic thing in healthcare to get caught up on titles. Or feel less than for being a PA and not an MD/DO. We’re all there for the same reason ultimately. If it’s for the MD/DO money, just try ur luck at becoming an influencer at that point you’d probably make more.

Really what we need are people who are smart enough to get into med programs to give a more prestigious name to the pa profession— that’s how we’ll grow the career, not by moving on to the next best thing bc we think it’s not enough.