I have said this before but it shouldn't be any surprise that you study a lot in pa school. After two years you are expected to be a primary clinician so yeah you better know your stuff = a lot of studying.
I just wanted to give a quick update on what my life is like right now. The UC Davis pa program is a unique program where they give you the amount of information that you will need to know for a test and ultimately you are left on you own to figure out the information. We have an extensive book list and available resources to help us but ultimately it is the individual student that must find a specific studying technique and system to be prepared come test day. We are a distant learning education where we go to school for a few lectures every few weeks and then we return to our communities and break out the books and study, study, study. As we progress in the program we will have clinical experiences in our own communities and rotate in different medical arenas in our home communities to ultimately provide us with good contacts, experiences, and stability to become a primary care health provider in our own community. Everyone has there own opinion about the format but that is not the point.... The point I am trying to make is that I have been relentlessly studying material, watching videos, researching topics from sun up to sun set, taking a few minutes every now and then to make sure my family knows that I am still alive.
So anyway the books are piled high, note cards are being made, the computer is warm and exhausted but the brilliant thing is that I am learning and understanding medicine, disease and health care.
