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First-Generation Pre-Physician Assistant Platform

Campus:	Columbus
Status:	Active - New/Re-Established II
Purpose Statement:	Representation matters, and while it is desirable by most to strive to be a flawless Pre-Physician Assistant (PA) undergraduate student and applicant to Physician Assistant school, it is extremely difficult, especially for those students who are first-generation—a term that is used to describe a person who is the first in their family to break barriers such as finishing high school, attending college, or applying to PA school. Motivated to establish a platform for those who do not have immediate access to a Physician Assistant mentor and those exclusive resources, the “First-Generation Pre-Physician Assistant Platform” is an Instagram, Youtube, and Spotify Podcast platform that acts as a 24/7 mentorship service for pre-PA students from Ohio State University and beyond. Answered by well-known, resilient, empathetic, and experienced first-generation certified Physician Assistants, PA students, and PA mentors, this platform will reveal the resources and answers to our most common pre-PA fears, which are usually not posted publicly, as we start our pre-PA journeys. This platform’s hope to assure the spiraling worries of the first-generation pre-PA students and to provide them constant access to pre-PA mentorship podcasts, videos, and other forms of resources that will always alleviate their anxieties throughout their journeys. Creating these collections of resources for these pre-PA communities, this platform will increase the access to the resources and treat the necessity of first-generation pre-PA students having a mentor and community to confide in. There, truly, is no greater feeling–community support is a necessity. So within these platforms, we encourage vulnerable conversation from Pre-PA students, PA-S's, and PA-C’s on their personal, non-traditional, first-generation journeys into the Physician Assistant profession. This 24/7 mentorship platform is dedicated to bringing attention to these resources in order to increase the number of underrepresented students interested in medicine. By acknowledging the disparities and setbacks that being first-generation has on collegiate students, this organization has proven that what once seemed impossible, is now becoming reality for first-generation students everywhere.
Primary Leader:	Tiffany Nguyen
Secondary Leader:	Christine Giberson
Treasurer Leader:	Vidya Rajagopal
Advisor:	Tasha Posid
Organization Email:	Firstgenprepaosu@gmail.com
Instagram:	https://www.instagram.com/firstgenprepa/
Other:	https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQw2yh7OQUKxNwfPogvdTyA
Website:	https://web.groupme.com/join_group/87748965/EGFXQvW4
Primary Type:	Academic/College
Secondary Types:	Academic/College Community Service/Service Learning Technology
Primary Make Up:	Undergraduate
Constitution:	2022_08_06_02_09_08_6841.docx
Meeting Time and Place:	Columbus, OH 43210
Office Location:	1739 N. High Street Columbus, OH 43210
Membership Type:	Open Membership
Membership Contact:	Firstgenprepaosu@gmail.com
Time of Year for New Membership:	Always welcome! Open membership.
How does a Prospective Member Apply:	Always welcome! Open membership.
Charge Dues:	No