Hi, my name is Jocelyn

I’m a PA with 10 years of experience across surgery, cardiac critical care, and primary care. But here's what actually qualifies me to help you: I struggled significantly in PA school.

I started my program in my thirties. I was older than most of my classmates, with an entire career already behind me. Before PA school, I worked as an embryologist and patient educator at a top fertility clinic, guiding people through some of the most emotional moments of their lives. I loved that work. But I wanted to do more.

So I went back to school — with a partner, a dog, and the kind of optimism that only comes from not fully understanding what I was getting into.

PA school humbled me fast. I studied constantly: rereading notes, rewatching lecture recordings, flipping through endless quizlet sets. And I was still barely passing. It felt like I was working twice as hard as everyone else for half the results. I assumed I was too old for this, or too far removed from being a student. (The real answer, it turned out, was undiagnosed ADHD and poor study skills, though I wouldn't know that for a while yet.)

Then something shifted.

Out of sheer desperation, I stopped doing what felt like studying and started experimenting. I restructured my notes completely. I built my own question systems. I made my study sessions active, instead of just sitting there hoping things would stick. And it worked. My grades improved. The fog lifted. I finally started learning, instead of just cramming and forgetting.

Years later, I found out the methods I'd stumbled into were actually evidence-based learning strategies backed by cognitive science, and well-documented to work. I'd just had to discover them the hard way, through trial and error, under pressure, with no one to tell me they had names.

Now I help PA students skip that painful trial-and-error phase. I teach the study strategies that actually work, so you're not wasting time on the ones that don't.

If you're struggling, know this: you're not failing because you're not smart enough. You're struggling because no one's taught you how to study for PA school specifically. And if you're an older student, navigating neurodivergence, or just feeling like you're the only one who doesn't "get it" — I built this practice with you in mind.

Let's get to work.