{"id":7660,"date":"2016-01-22T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/?post_type=post&p=7660"},"modified":"2022-04-04T16:10:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T16:10:47","slug":"getting-really-good-at-many-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/magazine\/2016\/01\/22\/getting-really-good-at-many-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Really Good at Many Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gevin Parker \u2013 Tacoma Class 2<\/span><\/p>\n

When we last spoke with Gevin Parker back in August 2014 (see https:\/\/goo.gl\/951ajh<\/a><\/em>), he had retired from a 24-year military career and was setting out on a journey to become a physician assistant through the MEDEX Northwest physician assistant training program. Gevin and his 22 classmates were excited and proud to be part of what was only the second class to convene at MEDEX Northwest\u2019s Tacoma satellite on the University of Washington\u2019s Tacoma campus.<\/p>\n

Now, some 16 months later, we meet up with Gevin Parker again, this time on the other end of his recently completed didactic year, and already two months into the 4-month family practice rotation of his clinical year with the Family Medicine Residency Program at the Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, WA. We ask Gevin right off the bat what it\u2019s like to be out of the classroom and in the clinical setting. \u201cIn a word, amazing!\u201d he answers.<\/p>\n

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