Practice 40 Touro University PA program interview questions covering clinical reasoning, patient care scenarios, and ethical decision-making.
Question 32 of 40
Example Answer
What You Need to Know
Community Answers

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"My mother had a friend who had MS, and during the summers, I worked as a caregiver and personal assistant for her. My responsibilities included shopping, bathing her, changing her adult diapers, cooking meals, and administering her medications. Presently, I am at about 800 hours of my 1,000 total hours of hands-on patient care experience in a similar healthcare setting."

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
Your admissions interviewers are interested in what work experience you've taken part in if any, and what you learned from it. Touro's website states, "Patient Care Experience (PCE) and Health Care Experience (HCE). It is the applicant's responsibility to sufficiently document patient care and health care duties in the CASPA application. Applicants should consider the tasks which they perform and use their best judgment to determine which category in the CASPA application they fall into. Applicants are expected to separate hours for positions that consist of both Patient Care Experience and Health Care Experience accordingly. Please also make sure to list the type of setting in which you completed the experience (i.e. family medicine, pediatrics, outpatient internal medicine, FQHC, community health center, etc.) as this is not always clear from the name of the clinic. "
You can find more on this on their program/requirements page. Thoroughly research their site, including all the pre-requisite coursework they require, especially since they state that their requirements must be completed before submission of the CASPA application. Personal experiences in caregiving are worth offering here as well.

Interview Coach
Jaymie
A real coach, not AI. I read every answer myself and write back with personalized feedback.
Typically responds within 24 hours.
0 - Character Count
Unlock expert responses tailored to Touro's holistic admissions approach and clinical focus.
Get StartedJump to Question

Written by Rachelle Enns
40 Questions & Answers • Touro University

By Rachelle

By Rachelle