What is CRNA school really like? | Finishing my first quarter of CRNA school 

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Lawrence! Dude that is awesome! Congrats to you for getting in. I definitely look forward to meeting you! Reach out if you need anything before you guys get started in the coming months. Appreciate you watching!

Thank you for watching! And yes totally agree- the light is becoming very visible nowadays!

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Sweet! Best of luck starting CRNA school! It's a wild ride for sure!

Hey! Thanks for watching. And such good advice!!!! I will check that stuff out. Appreciate it. Best of luck to you finishing up and for board prep! 👏🏼

That’s awesome man! Great school. My old stomping grounds in Fort Worth. Hit up if you ever need dfw recs!!

Hey Andy.. I’ll be starting TWU this summer.. how are the lectures matching up with the exams.. is all the material covered on the power points?

I second this question!

Excellent question. I will def do a video about this.

I would also like to hear more about what David has to say about this.

As a CRNA, I may be able to help you out with this. 1) As of right now, there is a massive shortage of anesthesia providers. There are only so many schools out there between AA, CRNA, and MDA that even with them all pumping out providers, we are still short. As of now there is no end to the shortage in sight. There are only so many schools, and the schools act as a bottleneck in this situation. 2) AAs can only practice in a limited number of states as it stands. CRNAs are trained to practice independently and thus can work in all care team models making them a very versatile provider. It is not likely that AAs will "take over", however they can work in some institutions that only use a medical direction model (1 MDA per 4 AAs or CRNAs) whereas CRNAS can work in medical direction, medical supervision (~1:6), or independently. 3) As anesthesia providers, we must be ready to respond to an emergency at a seconds notice. Although AI may be able to help titrate medications in accordance with vital signs, etc in the near future, there is no chance AI will be able to emergently intubate, place central lines or arterial lines, treat laryngospasm, have proper mask ventilation techniques. Anesthesia is a hands on profession and AI simply will not get to that level anytime soon. Hope this was helpful

Good point you bring up. I am doing fine. I did locums assignments before I started, and saved up. I am also taking loans, because (over the last year up until June 2023), federal loans have 0% interest rate. However, in the end, it will pay off tremendously. CRNAs make 200-500k a year- so over the long term, the investment pays for itself. You can't look at the immediate future. This is an investment, which like all investments, take some time to see the benefit.

Hey! Sorry, I am just now getting back to this. I am in a front loaded program! I will finish didactic in about three more months.

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It can be difficult to retain so much- however, your brain is much more powerful than you could ever think. Especially when you employ evidence based study tactics.

Hahahaha literally. More like a rats nest

Mm how so, please explain more.

@@DavidWarrenNP you used too often words like "hard" "though" etc

@@akmanserhat ha. Okay. I guess we can agree to disagree. I don’t think that is negative. I just think that is the reality of anesthesia school.

@@akmanserhat it is reality of Crna school.

@@DavidWarrenNP I'd like to see ANYONE make it through CRNA school and not think it was "hard" or "tough" if you don't think that at least 100 times in 3 years then you must be a unicorn.