As a fresh MCAT passer (with a high percentile score), I know I’m not competent to jump into that role. I’ve shadowed a few times, and seen my share of PCPs; I just have too many gaps to be comfortable doing it.
That said, I believe I could become median competent as a PCP (with no specialties) with no more than a year of hands-on / practical training.
A lot of your post rings true for me based on my experience in the system, but IMO early students have a lot of gaps and not all of them can be filled with an LLM (yet).
As a fresh MCAT passer (with a high percentile score), I know I’m not competent to jump into that role. I’ve shadowed a few times, and seen my share of PCPs; I just have too many gaps to be comfortable doing it.
That said, I believe I could become median competent as a PCP (with no specialties) with no more than a year of hands-on / practical training.
A lot of your post rings true for me based on my experience in the system, but IMO early students have a lot of gaps and not all of them can be filled with an LLM (yet).
Are these gaps related to medical knowledge, or admin/procedural knowledge?
What is the most complex task you have personally observed a PCP perform that you feel prevents you from doing the role?