Transition To Practice

🚨 Upcoming: Transition to Practice Seminar — Secure Your Spot and Step Confidently Into Your Clinical Career!

You’ve waited 2–3 years for this moment. EORs, EOC, and the PANCE are finally in the rearview mirror — but now comes the real challenge: practicing clinically.

What will you be doing on day one? How do you work up a patient confidently in your chosen field? How can you hit the ground running instead of stumbling?

Prepare for life after graduation with our most popular offering — the Transition to Practice Seminar. Designed for final-year students and new graduates, this seminar equips you with the essential knowledge, practical tools, and confidence to navigate the real-world challenges of your first clinical job.

✨ What You’ll Gain✨

✅ Practical tips for onboarding, credentialing, and thriving in your first clinical job
✅ Strategies for managing workload, stress, and patient flow in a real-world setting
✅ Confidence in working up patients using structured, specialty-focused clinical algorithms
✅ Expert insights into billing, documentation, and navigating healthcare systems
✅ Personalized specialty preparation with at least 10 handcrafted diagnostic workups and algorithms tailored to the most commonly seen patient presentations in your field

🩺 Specialty Tracks Covered Last Year

Students in last year’s seminar received personalized specialty handbooks and resources covering:
✔ Hospital Medicine
✔ Critical Care / Hospital Intensivist
✔ Inpatient Cardiology
✔ Neurosurgery
✔ Emergency Medicine
✔ Family Medicine
✔ Internal Medicine
✔ Post-Acute Care Medicine
✔ Urgent Care

The Personal Promise

Every student receives a specialty-specific set of clinical tools, personally researched and built to help you hit the ground running — no generic templates here, only carefully curated, practical resources designed for your success.
All I need is to know where you want to practice.

Seminar Lead & Author

Ewen Nicol MS PA-C

A seasoned clinician, educator, and author of the Clinical Reasoning Handbook: Graduate Edition. With decades of experience across urgent care, hospital medicine, surgery, radiology, pediatrics, and internal medicine, he specializes in teaching clinical decision-making and adaptive management. As lead coach for the Transition to Practice Seminar, he uses a practical, case-based approach to help new graduates build confidence from day one.

Seminar Coach & Critical Care PA

Leah Malkin MS PA-C

A physician associate with two years of critical care experience now transitioning into hospital medicine. She brings a strong foundation in acute patient management and a growing passion for longitudinal inpatient care. Her adaptability, clinical insight, and commitment to learning add depth to the seminar and reflect the perspective of an emerging clinician.

Seminar Coach & Gen Surgery PA

Cydney McChesney MS PA-C

A general surgery PA with four years of clinical experience and a strong passion for medical education. As a recent graduate, she offers valuable insight into the transition from training to practice and brings a fresh perspective on the learning styles of new clinicians. Her energy, creativity, and collaborative spirit have greatly enhanced the seminar experience.