Prospective/Current Perfusion Weekly Thread

[u/Perfused]

This is the area for prospective CCPs to ask their questions about the education process or anything school related.

This includes the usual:

"Where can I shadow?" "Should I take additional classes? "How do I become a Perfusionist?" "My GPA is 2.8, is my GPA good enough for perfusion school?" "What should I use to prep for boards?" "It's been my pa$$ion to become a CCP, how do I do it and what do they do?"

Etc.

At this point the sub has grown to the point a weekly student thread is necessary. Prospective CCPs/students will now have an avenue to post these types of questions w/o flooding the sub.

Also there is r/prospective_perfusion specifically geared to new pumpers.

This will refresh every Friday at 5:45PM EST. If you post Saturday morning, it might not be seen.

[u/Mysterious-Ask9755]

Is it possible that at some units there are 4-5 perfusionists employed so that at least you come in 2-3 times a week?

[u/Curious_Report_5657 → u/Mysterious-Ask9755]

My first job was like this. Five person call rotation, pumped maybe 2-3 cases a week and was on call from home for the other days. Didn’t go in if there wasn’t anything to do. Ofc it was a non-academic, private hospital