PANCE Study Schedule

The PANCE is a 5 hour, 300 questions exam that all PA students must take after graduating from PA school to obtain their certification. After passing the PANCE, a PA is recognized as "board certified PA" and can apply for a state license.


Since many of you have requested this, I'm finally sitting down to share my PANCE schedule that I made for myself. I will be upfront as always and tell you all that I deviated from this schedule from time to time. Life happens and it's hard to always stay on task. I often used weekends to catch up and finish my studying for the week as needed.

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I started with dermatology because I was on my dermatology rotation when I started studying and I felt like that would be the most efficient way to study, killing two birds with one stone and what not. I printed and would go through the NCCPA blueprint, pick an organ system and study each group of diseases listed. I studied using Pance Prep Pearls and also my lecture notes if I needed more clarification or it was a topic I hadn't studied in a while. After that, I would do TrueLearn questions and/or Rosh Review questions to test my knowledge before calling it a day (TrueLearn subscription was provided by my school since they required us to do 110 questions per rotation).

Side-note: I went ahead and bought the second edition of pance prep even though I had the first one. I thought it was well worth my investment and throughouly loved the new edition and especially the pharmacology section.

In August as I was reviewing a second time, I also bought the LANGE Q&A question book that was recommended by my preceptor. I wasn't able to go through each and every question because I ran out of time but I would go through an organ system a day and then do the questions for that organ system from the book. Hippo summaries was also my go to throughout clinicals and also during my dedicated PANCE study time. I know a lot of my classmates also found their videos very helpful.

This is another book I used as a reference during clinical year and to study for EOR exams but I did not use it religiously to study for the PANCE.










And there you have it. Please keep in mind that there are multiple ways to study for the PIf you guys have any questions please let me know!

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