Thanks! I'm excited to start!
ICU nurses can be mean. It's interesting how there is a pecking order in every profession. ICU nurses tend to feel at the top of the pecking order in floor nursing. As a PACU nurse, I routinely recover complex ICU patients and hold them for hours as we wait for rooms to open up. However, some ICU nurses look down on us lowly 'airway and pain control' nurses, even though we are trained very similarly.
Anyway, back to the thread topic. After more reflection, I really think PA's with the proper prerequisites shouldn't have to take the MCAT, especially since they have real-world medical experience, will receive advanced standing at LECOM, and because many current medical students do not feel the MCAT prepared them at all for their basic science courses. Wow! Thoroughly reading the posts on this thread actually changed my opinion! Thanks, SDN.