{"id":15947,"date":"2024-01-02T08:46:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T13:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=15947"},"modified":"2024-01-02T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T15:22:10","slug":"elizabethtown-college-physicians-assistant-students-place-in-challenge-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/elizabethtown-college-physicians-assistant-students-place-in-challenge-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Physician Assistant Students Place in Challenge Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

A team of Elizabethtown College Master of Science in Physician Assistant (PA) Studies<\/a> students placed third out of 14 teams at the 23rd<\/sup> Annual Physician Assistant Student Challenge Bowl sponsored by the Pennsylvania Society of Physician Assistants<\/a> in early December.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the students in the program have been working incredibly hard,\u201d Elizabethtown College Director of the Physician Assistant Program Dionna Rookey said. \u201cTo see students use the knowledge they\u2019ve gained in a fun way and shine in the process is spectacular.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keegan Bower \u201924, Ethan Smith \u201924, Gracen Hilsinger \u201924, and Connor Rathsam \u201924, who will graduate in August 2024 as part of the first cohort in the PA program, represented Etown at the challenge. The challenge consisted of three rounds, with each team earning points by correctly answering trivia questions connected to PA studies. \u00a0While the team placed third, they scored the most cumulative points of all the teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a new program, it was rewarding to see us do so well, especially since it was our first time competing in the challenge bowl,\u201d Bower said. \u201cIt\u2019s a great reflection of our staff in the PA program that we were able to perform like that against other schools that have had PA programs for a long time.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Questions ranged from first-line treatments of conditions, key symptoms of diseases, normal physiology of the body, and diagnostic methods of conditions. Questions required an extensive knowledge of all systems of the body.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thoroughly enjoyed participating in the event, and it showed that all the work our professors and faculty have put into this program,\u201d Hilsinger said. \u201cTo place third out of 14 teams as a brand-new program put our name on the map and proved that all our hard work and dedication are paying off.\u201d<\/p>\n

About Etown\u2019s Physician Assistant Program
\n<\/strong>Designed to meet the needs of 21st-century learners in a rapidly growing field, Elizabethtown College\u2019s Physician Assistant (PA) Program equips future healthcare providers with an education that is centered on service and integrates interdisciplinary learning.<\/p>\n

The program offers two pathways \u2013 a BS\/MS program and a standalone Master\u2019s program which offers small class sizes that allow students to build strong mentoring relationships with faculty. Discover more about Etown\u2019s PA program at etown.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A team of Elizabethtown College Master of Science in Physician Assistant (PA) Studies students placed third out of 14 teams at the 23rd Annual Physician Assistant Student Challenge Bowl sponsored by the Pennsylvania Society of Physician Assistants in early December. \u201cAll the students in the program have been working incredibly hard,\u201d Elizabethtown College Director of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":15962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[197,2100,1350,1517,1812,2101,2099,2103,2102],"class_list":["post-15947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-elizabethtown-college-physician-assistant-program","tag-etown","tag-etown-college","tag-pa-program","tag-pa-studies","tag-physician-assistant-program","tag-physician-assistant-student-challenge-bown","tag-physicians-assistant-studies","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16021,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15947\/revisions\/16021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}