(l-r) Victoria Diaz de Villegas, Rim Abdala and Maria Furlan, Photo credit: Miami Dade College

Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Medical Campus recently hosted the 2024 Randy Boaz Memorial ALS Competition, an annual event where teams of paramedics and emergency medical technicians face off in various emergency scenarios under the clock. The competition featured local, state, national and international teams. The competition also featured the first ever all-female team of Victoria Diaz de Villegas, Rim Abdala and Maria Furlan.

The Randy Boaz Memorial ALS Competition reinforces best practices and techniques, which help enhance the teams’ daily service to the community. It also provides an opportunity for participating agencies to collaborate and share information about advanced treatment procedures.

Since 2001, MDC Medical Campus has organized and hosted the competition honoring the life and legacy of the late Randy Boaz, an MDC instructor and one of the first paramedics in the United States with a career that started in the 1960s. Revered in the paramedic community, Boaz taught many of the specialists who have been part of the competition, although he passed away several years before the event was launched. To learn more, visit www.mdc.edu/randyboazcompetition.