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"Seeing my son [in the NICU struggling to breathe] was the moment I decided to change careers."
"Seeing my son [in the NICU struggling to breathe] was the moment I decided to change careers."
“I’ve performed a lot of difficult trauma care in my life and prepared for a lot of challenging situations. Nothing prepared me for this. It scared the life out of me. Seeing my son [in the NICU struggling to breathe] was the moment I decided to change my career.”
As a student in the UNC School of Medicine’s Physician Assistant ProgramOpens in new window, two-time Bronze Star Award recipient Curtis Carr is building on the medical skills he acquired as a Green Beret medic serving in Afghanistan.
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The result of a public-private partnership that includes support from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, the Kenan Charitable Trust, and several charitable foundations, the Physician Assistant Program provides educational and career-development opportunities to nontraditional students, including military veterans with medical experience, who are committed to the program’s mission to reduce health-care shortages in underserved communities in North Carolina.
