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3/16/06 News Release
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MEDIA ADVISORY: LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO ATTEND STANFORD'S 'MED SCHOOL 101'
STANFORD, Calif. — It might sound impossible to get into medical school without taking the MCAT, or even the SAT, but a group of high-school students are doing just that. On March 24, nearly 100 local teens will fill Stanford classrooms and become medical students for a day.
The Stanford University School of Medicine invited the students — high-schoolers from Palo Alto, San Jose and Hayward — to come to campus for its inaugural “Med School 101” program. The new program was designed to expose local teens to medical research and interest them in the field of medicine.
During the daylong program, students will attend lectures (several of which are based on medical or undergraduate courses), hear from a panel of Stanford medical and graduate students on their research, and participate in a “graduation” ceremony. They will also hear remarks from Philip Pizzo, MD, dean of the medical school, and Hannah Valantine, MD, senior associate dean for diversity and leadership.
The day’s offerings also include:
- A primer on stem cell research
- A lesson on human movement and the ways researchers use their understanding of movement to develop treatments for disabled people
- An examination of the science behind infectious diseases and their portrayal in the movies
- A session on the legal, ethical and social dilemmas posed by advances in brain research
- A tour of Lucile Packard Children Hospital’s Center for Advanced Pediatric Education (http://www.lpch.org/cape/), the world’s first dedicated pediatric and obstetric medical simulation center
More information on Med School 101 is online at http://mednews.stanford.edu/medschool101/. Reporters who are interested in attending the event, which runs from 9 a.m.-2 p.m., should notify the media contacts above.
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The Stanford University School of Medicine consistently ranks among the nation’s top 10 medical schools, integrating research, medical education, patient care and community service. For more news about the school, please visit http://mednews.stanford.edu. The medical school is part of Stanford Medicine, which includes Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. For information about all three, please visit http://stanfordmedicine.org/about/news.html.
