Summer
Enrichment
Programs '17
Around 70 high school students had the chance to sample life as a medical student at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) when they took part in the college's two Summer Enrichment Programs held on July 8 to July 20, 2017.
The 34 grade 10 and 11 students on the Qatar Medical Explorer Program (QMEP) and 35 grade 11 and 12 students on the Precollege Enrichment Program (PCEP) spent two weeks at WCM-Q taking a series of classes tutored by Angela Dandan and Sami Salah, Medical students at WCM-Q.
The students, aged 15-17, had the opportunity to take classes on infectious diseases, neurology, psychology, emergency medicine and cancer research, as well as lab safety, the history of medicine, DNA extraction techniques and human anatomy. They also had the chance to take a dissection class in the WCM-Q biology lab, learn about the human heart by working with Harvey a hi-tech robotic humanoid learning aid in the state-of- the-art Clinical Skills Center, and visit Hamad Medical Corporation, WCM-Q's clinical partner.
Overall, the students gained a comprehensive snapshot of what it is like to study medicine while discovering some of the many career paths that a WCM-Q MD degree can lead to, which broadly include practice in a variety of medical specialties, biomedical research and teaching, or a combination of all three.
Qatari student Fatma Essa al Kubaisi of the International School of London, Qatar, completed the PCEP programme. She said:"My experience at WCM-Q's Summer Enrichment Program was beyond expectation. I got a taste of university life, made new friends, and developed and discovered my skills through different sessions. The two-week programme provided me with a fantastic and unique opportunity that every prospective medicine student would wish to have." Other highlights of the two-week programme included classes on animal care and use in research, an introduction to medical ethics,
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