HPI for PA programs Chief concern: overwhelmed students Built for student support + remediation prevention

HPI: Your cohort is overwhelmed.
The plan cannot be “more qbank.”

Faculty reports students are distracted, overloaded, falling behind, and relying on question banks without developing clinical reasoning. PA Guide gives your program a shared support system students can use before remediation becomes the only option.

PA Guide notebook and digital tools
Start the Program Plan → Discuss the Case
CCStudent overload
HPIScattered study system
A/PPA Guide cohort support

"Student symptoms are not the diagnosis. The diagnosis is content overload without a repeatable system."

Chief concern: students are overwhelmed
Associated symptoms: qbank dependence + scattered resources
Treatment: notebook + digital platform
Follow-up: faculty support tiers
Program checkout + cohort onboarding

Clinical Snapshot

HPI of the overwhelmed PA cohort

A medical-style summary of what faculty are seeing — and why a structured intervention matters.

OnsetEarly didactic year, often before students admit they are behind.
Provoked byHigh-volume lectures, fragmented tech habits, scattered resources, and passive review.
Associated symptomsQbank dependence, weak organization, rising anxiety, and clinical reasoning gaps.
SeverityProgresses into remediation burden when students do not get a repeatable system early.

History of Present Illness

FACULTY REPORTS STUDENTS ARE OVERLOADED, DISTRACTED, AND FALLING BEHIND.
SYMPTOMS WORSEN WHEN STUDENTS TRY TO SURVIVE ON QBANKS ALONE.

Onset is usually early in didactic year. Course is progressive. Students start with scattered notes, outside resources, and good intentions — then develop content fatigue, fragmented attention, clinical reasoning gaps, and increased need for faculty remediation.

Onset: early content overload
Associated symptoms: disorganized review
Severity: rising remediation burden

Assessment: overwhelmed students do not need another disconnected resource. They need a shared clinical learning system.

PA Guide gives programs a repeatable framework for organization, active recall, clinical reasoning, student support, and remediation prevention.

COURSE: PROGRESSIVE IF LEFT UNTREATED.

Students begin with too much information and too little structure.

They compensate with more questions, more videos, more apps, and more scattered notes.

Faculty then inherits the downstream symptoms: confusion, weak reasoning, panic, and remediation.

Intervene early with a system the whole cohort can use.

Plan

A cohort-level treatment plan your faculty can actually deploy

The intervention is simple: choose a program tier, onboard your students, and give faculty a shared framework for study support, remediation prevention, and clinical reasoning development.

1

Initial order: choose the cohort plan

Essential, Partner, and Premier each include up to 30 students, with clear additional-student pricing.

2

Intervention: onboard students into one system

Students receive physical structure and digital tools so they are not piecing together their own survival plan.

3

Follow-up: reinforce the same framework

When students struggle, faculty can point back to the same structure for active recall, organization, and clinical reasoning.

PA Guide system — notebook and digital tools

Orders

The notebook gives structure.
The tools give clinical reps.

PA Guide combines physical organization with digital practice so students can move from scattered exposure to clinical reasoning.

📓

Order: Board Review Master Notebook

A physical framework students can build into throughout didactics, rotations, remediation, and boards.

🎓

Order: Course + Clinical Review System

System-based content designed to clarify core medicine, reinforce high-yield concepts, and support long-term review.

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Order: AI Coach + Training Tools

Quizzes, flashcards, clinical cases, and PA Guide Bot for active recall and decision-making practice.

PA Guide — notebook and digital tools
One system. Physical notebook + digital tools — built for didactics, rotations, and boards.

Treatment Package

Everything students need for the next step in the plan

📓 Physical structure

  • Notebook for every student
  • Organized by clinical systems
  • Built for handwriting, synthesis, and retrieval

⚙️ Digital learning tools

  • Quizzes and flashcards
  • Clinical cases and decision practice
  • PA Guide Bot for clinical reasoning support

🏫 Program-level follow-up

  • Annual cohort renewal
  • Faculty orientation options
  • Premier onboarding and direct support
Choose a Plan →

Differential

It is not just a motivation problem.
It is a system problem.

❌ Untreated Pattern

Students jump between lectures, apps, qbanks, and notes
They mistake question volume for understanding
Faculty spend more time reacting once students are behind
Remediation becomes a rescue mission

✅ PA Guide Assessment

Students have one organized framework
Active recall is tied to clinical reasoning
Faculty can point students to a repeatable system
Programs support students before they are in crisis
Jono Lippman, PA Guide founder

Built by a PA who lived the pressure

Jono Lippman, PA-C

Husband · Father · Educator · Clinical reasoning mentor

Clinician Note

I built PA Guide because I know what the symptoms look like before a student falls behind.

I was not a student with unlimited time, perfect focus, and a quiet life. I was a husband and father trying to get through PA school while carrying real responsibility outside the classroom.

What changed everything was not simply working harder. It was building a system: deciding what mattered, organizing it clearly, reviewing it repeatedly, and turning scattered information into clinical thinking.

PA Guide is the intervention I wish every student had before they fell behind — and the support I wish faculty could hand students before remediation became the only option.

Empathy for overwhelmed students: built by someone who remembers the pressure of learning medicine while life kept moving.

Structure faculty can point to: gives students a repeatable method instead of another disconnected resource.

Clinical reasoning at the center: helps students move beyond memorization and start thinking like future clinicians.

Treatment Plans

Choose the intervention level that fits your cohort.

Each plan includes up to 30 students. Choose the level of notebook support, digital access, faculty support, and follow-up that matches your program’s severity and goals.

Essential
$10,000
per year / up to 30 students
+$199 per additional student
Choose Essential
Most popular
Partner
$13,000
per year / up to 30 students
+$249 per additional student
Choose Partner
Premier
$20,000
per year / up to 30 students
+$299 per additional student
Choose Premier
Student treatment bundle
Board Review Master Notebook Included in Essential Included in Premier
Full digital platform access Included in Essential Included in Premier
Clinical Pharmacology Notebook Included in Premier
Emergency Medicine Rotation Notebook Included in Premier
General Surgery Rotation Notebook Included in Premier
All 14 system quizzes + flashcards
PA Guide BotAI clinical reasoning assistant
Clinical case simulator
Faculty follow-up and program support
Annual cohort renewal
Live faculty orientation call
Mid-year check-in with Jono
Custom faculty onboarding session
Direct line to Jono
Extras
Co-branded student welcome email
Early access to new modules
Custom notebook cover option
Multi-year pricing available

Example totals for a 60-student program

Example totals for a 60-student program

Essential — 60 students
$15,970/yr
$10,000 base + 30 × $199
Partner — 60 students
$20,470/yr
$13,000 base + 30 × $249
Premier — 60 students
$28,970/yr
$20,000 base + 30 × $299

Trusted by clinicians, educators, and clinical leaders

Clinicians and educators recognize PA Guide as more than another content library — it is a structured plan for learning, review, teaching, and clinical reasoning support.

Erich Fogg
★★★★★

“Strategic, focused, and grounded in how real students learn — not another content dump.”

Erich Fogg, PA-C, MMSc

High-Stakes Exam Coach | Educator

Troy Bender
★★★★★

“Simplifies complex medical concepts and boosts retention — expertly designed notebook + AI chatbot.”

Troy Bender, DMSc, PA-C, DFAAPA

Educator | Former Founding Dean

Ashley Love
★★★★★

“A clear map through overwhelming medical knowledge — rejecting the fire hose mentality.”

Ashley Love, PA-C

Shadow Me Next Podcast

Kristin Burton
★★★★★

“Not just informative — intentional. Built for busy professionals when time is tight.”

Kristin Burton, PA-C

Founder, Millionaires in Medicine

Katie Bean
★★★★★

“Clear, strategic, and rooted in how students learn under pressure — a system that sticks.”

Katie Bean, PA-C

Escape the Clinic | PrePA Clinic

Tracy Bingaman
★★★★★

“Like having a preceptor, study buddy, and hype squad in your pocket.”

Tracy Bingaman, PA-C, MSPAS

The Persistent Provider

Follow-Up Questions

Built to be easy for programs to implement.

Can a program purchase directly?

Yes. Choose the plan that fits your program and complete checkout online. After purchase, PA Guide will follow up to coordinate cohort details, student onboarding, and notebook fulfillment.

Is this replacing our curriculum?

No. PA Guide is designed to support your curriculum, not replace it. It gives students a structure for studying, reviewing, and building clinical reasoning alongside what your faculty already teaches.

Why not just recommend a qbank?

Qbanks are useful, but students can do thousands of questions and still fail to build organized clinical thinking. PA Guide helps question practice become part of deeper learning, not a substitute for it.

Which plan should most programs choose?

Partner is the best fit for most programs because it adds faculty orientation, a mid-year check-in, and a co-branded student welcome email while keeping pricing straightforward.

PA Guide

HPI reviewed.
Plan ready.

Your students are showing the signs: content overload, scattered resources, qbank dependence, and clinical reasoning gaps. PA Guide gives your program a structured intervention before students are in crisis.

Essential · Partner · Premier · Includes physical notebook + digital platform access for your cohort

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