Maggie Dutcher Commissioned as an Air Force Officer (4.21.10)

Maggie Dutcher, a first-year student in the MPAS program was selected as the only civilian PA student in this western region to be the recipient of an Air Force scholarship. She was selected out of a field of over 200 applicants for the award. As a result, she was commissioned today as a Second Lieutenant in the Air Force's Medical Service Corps and is being sworn in by John Fields, a retired Air Force PA and the Associate Director of the MPAS program. Following graduation from the RMC PA Program next year, Maggie will be promoted to First Lieutenant and transferred to the Biomedical Sciences Corps where she will provide medical care as a PA in the Air Force.