- National Medical Challenge Bowl
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The National Medical Challenge Bowl is a competition coordinated by the Student Academy of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.
The competition is held during the AAPA's Annual PA Conference and the event is organized in a medical "Jeopardy" style. Forty-eight teams, with three PA students to a team, compete to answer medical-related questions. Questions are asked on a variety of subjects including physical diagnosis, microbiology, anatomy, OB/GYN, pulmonary, cardiology, primary care, emergency medicine, and surgery. Only AAPA student members currently enrolled in an accredited Physician Assistant program which has a registered student society are eligible to participate.
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History
The Challenge Bowl started at the 1991 AAPA Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA. It has been held as an annual event at the conference every year since. Several states have followed this tradition and hold annual state competitions which are molded after the same format as the national competition. The competition is one of the most anticipated events at every Annual Conference. Several students of the various schools participating often attend the event and it is also very popular among the participants of the Conference as they go to cheer on their alma mater.
Format and Rules of Competition
Teams play in a round-robin format; with preliminary rounds, semi-final rounds and one final round.
The moderator reads the questions, the first team to buzz in is acknowledged by the moderator and permitted 10 seconds to answer.
The moderator does not complete the question if a team buzzes in before the full question is read.
If the team that buzzes in answers incorrectly, the moderator re-reads the question and then allows other team(s) an opportunity to respond. Ten seconds are allowed for response.
Only one response per team is accepted after a team has buzzed in.
The team with the most points at the end of the round advances to the next round. The team with the most points at the end of the final round is declared the winner. In the event of a tie between the two highest scoring teams in the round, a "sudden death" playoff is held and the team to correctly answer a question wins the round. If the team answers incorrectly, the other team wins.
Ten points are awarded for each question answered correctly. Ten points are deducted for each incorrect response. If a team buzzes in and then fails to answer, it is counted as an incorrect response.
Team members must speak loudly and clearly into the microphone. If the moderator questions the pronunciation of an answer, s/he may request the team to spell the word in question. If the spelling is correct, points are awarded. If the pronunciation and spelling are ruled incorrect, points are deducted.Past Champions
Year Location of Event School 1991 San Francisco, CA Harlem Hospital Center 1992 Nashville, TN Bowman Gray n/k/a Wake Forest 1993 Miami, FL Harlem Hospital Center 1994 San Antonio, TX Long Island University, Brooklyn Hospital Center 1995 Las Vegas, NV College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific/Western University of Health Sciences 1996 New York, NY Duquesne University 1997 Minneapolis, MN St. Francis College 1998 Salt Lake City, UT Rocky Mountain College 1999 Atlanta, GA Daemen College 2000 Chicago, IL LeMoyne College 2001 Anaheim, CA SUNY Stony Brook 2002 Boston, MA DeSales University 2003 New Orleans, LA Midwestern University 2004 Las Vegas, NV DeSales University 2005 Orlando, FL Quinnipiac University 2006 San Francisco, CA Midwestern University 2007 Philadelphia, PA Duke University 2008 San Antonio, TX DeSales University 2009 San Diego, CA DeSales University 2010 Atlanta, GA DeSales University 2011 Las Vegas, NV Mercer University 2012 Toronto, ON TBD External links
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