The rare feat speaks to former students’ determination and the quality of UNLV’s degree program.
August 3, 2023 By STEVEN SLIVKA
A perfect score on the national boards for physical therapists is an elusive challenge. Prior to this year, only 11 alumni over the past decade have ever done so. But this year, a trifecta of new graduates aced the exam.
Micah Wilson, Melissa Goo-Tam, and Justin Rasavage, all from the Class of 2023, scored a perfect 800 on the National Physical Therapy Examination (NPTE).
“When I saw the score of 800, I was in disbelief,” said Goo-Tam, who recently began working as a physical therapist at Dignity Health Rehabilitation Hospital in Henderson. “I even tried to look for another numerical score thinking the website was showing me the maximum points attainable on the exam.”
Wilson, a Kansas City native who now works in the Rehabilitation Unit at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas, shared the same feeling upon seeing her results.
Read about them here: https://www.unlv.edu/news/article/three-unlv-physical-therapy-graduates-achieve-perfect-board-exam-scores
