Physician assistant students dominate medical challenge bowl
Amy Connell - 2009 July 29
Two physician assistant students in the Medical College of Georgia School of Allied Health Sciences dominated the Georgia Association of Physician Assistants’ 2009 Student Medical Challenge Bowl in Hilton Head, S.C.
Second-year student Elicia Parvin of Cumming, Ga., and first-year student Ronald Sanders of Decatur, Ga., were the school's winning team at the challenge bowl.
"I am very proud of how well Elicia and Ron represented us this year," says Dr. Scott Martin, associate chair of the School of Allied Health Sciences Department of Physician Assistant. "Our success in this competition over the past few years represents a true team effort by the faculty and staff in the department."
The competition tests the medical knowledge of physician assistant students in Georgia. MCG students have won the competition for five of the past six years.
During March of this year, Dr. Donald Maner, Associate Professor in the Physician Assistant Department and six Physician Assistant students were privileged to be part of a medical mission team, for the fifth consecutive year. Along with Dr. Sharon Kuhn, the co-medical director for Mission to the World, as well as Betsy Christiansen, a wonderful nurse/missionary, the “team” set out on an ambitious 14- day mission trip to the West Indies island of Trinidad.
