Hello, my name is Ashley and I am a PA School drop out.  Actually, "drop out" implies a degree of control over my leaving school that I didn't really have. With the exception of family and a few close friends, most people don't know that I actually flunked out of Duke University School of Medicine, Physician Assistant Program.....Now what?

I'm almost 1 year out from The Program and want to share with whoever wants to hear about how I have coped with my failing out of Med School. I imagine for anyone who might read about this, failure is unfamiliar territory for you. Looking at the entering class stats for most Med/PA Programs, you'll find some of the nation's youngest and brightest. So how does someone go from being smart enough to get into Medical School to out on your butt because you have a GPA of less than 75 in 1 or more classes per semester for two consecutive semesters? Who knows? There are a lot of paths to a less than "permissible" GPA especially in pursuit of a medical degree. Regardless of how you got here: this is a real life "12-step plan" to survive outside of what I suspect has been the only goal you have had most of your adult life.