Mandatory PA Fun Day

Even though this happened about a month ago, I think it's still quite a blog-worthy event. Every class goes on a retreat during their first fall quarter. Think of 6th grade science camp 2.0. We ended up at YMCA Camp Ockanickon and spent the day answering trivia, playing team building games, doing a scavenger hunt, boat racing, and concluded with our team skits. Our class is broken up into 4 teams, and if you can imagine, all of us type-A PA students can get very competitive with each other. We come up with songs, slogans, custom T-shirts...the works. Here was the team breakdown:

Red team: Hemoglobin Trotters
Blue team: Blue Steel
Yellow team: Cremasters
Green team: Carpe Scrotum

At the end of the day, the Cremasters lifted themselves up (nerd humor haha get it?!) and were victorious. The faculty concluded with a short but meaningful message: There are some things that simply can not be taught in the classroom. Sometimes you need to be reminded how important things like team-building, empathy, and planning ahead are in this career path. We're all in this together! Also, they expressed concern as to why our class was so obsessed with male genitalia....yeah I have no clue either, I personally did not come up with any of those names.

Ok onto photos!

serious business

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

someone palpating Lindsey's ischial tuberosity

Our VP, Melissa (far R) managed to rent out a school bus for us!

we are real professionals here

jumping into a boat to start a race and realizing there are no oars - what taking PA school exams can feel like at times

me with my team, the hemoglobin trotters

Items we had to retrieve during the scavenger hunt. Question for our faculty: what's a "DOPLPHIN?" :P

PAs come in all sizes, including fold-away

Red team's skit song about Standardized Patients (SPs), performed to the tune of Justin Beiber's "Baby". Credits to the fab Camilla Chou PA-S for the lyrics.

Cremasters skit

Blue Steel's skit about PA school interviews

....aaaaand an Instagram filter just to make things look extra special and vintage