Throughout June, high school students from all across the region participated in the Future of Medicine Summer Program. Two cohorts learned from seasoned professionals about what careers in healthcare can look like, from physicians to nurses to pharmacists and more.
Over the course of the program, students earned CPR certification, learned to reverse an overdose with Naloxone, tied tourniquets, sutured bananas, studied sheep organs, toured the Vitalant blood labs and Museum of Medical History, inspected an ambulance, packed wounds, applied splints, learned about journeys in healthcare, and shadowed physicians on the job.
Here’s some of the sights from the program!
Sacramento Metropolitan Fire Battalion Chief Scott Perryman doing Q&A with students following an ambulance tour
Tailored instructions for CPR administration
The Future of Medicine Summer Program Second Cohort with Sacramento Metropolitan Fire paramedics
Juan Hernandez, MD teaching students to suture patients using bananas
Rebecca Leece, MD demonstrating how to suture your banana patient
Andrea Casillas-Chavez, MD teaching how to suture banana patients
Future of Medicine student posing with her banana patient following a suture lab
Students practicing their suture work on banana patients
Students practicing their splinting work
Andrew Hudnut, MD posing with students during a sheep heart, eye, and kidney lab
Students learning to prepare donors for blood draws
The Future of Medicine Summer Program First Cohort showing off their bandage work at the Vitalant Blood Labs
John Vallee, MD leading students on a tour of the Museum of Medical History
