UT Health Sciences News: PA Students Put Tennessee First

The bus pulled out of Memphis before sunrise. A few students dozed in the early dark, heads tilted toward windows as the highway unspooled west to east. In the quiet, a voice carried from the front.

"What are you doing?"

Another student had cracked open his notes before dawn. "I mean, I'm not behind," he says, "but if I'm not ahead, I'm behind."

"If you're not first, you're last?" the student up front calls back. "Isn't that from Talladega Nights?"

Laughter rolled down the aisle. By the time the bus reached Nashville, the large group of tight-knit first-year physician assistant (PA) students from the University of Tennessee Health Sciences were ready to stretch their legs with a short walk through the city to the Tennessee State Capitol. They were ready to take in the environment and connect with their legislators face-to-face.

Read more on the UT Health Sciences News website.