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Med School Hopefuls Receive Coats of Distinction

Some of Charlotte Amalie High School’s brightest students will soon be roaming the halls of Schneider Regional Medical Center after receiving their white lab coats during a Thursday night ceremony to distinguish them as members of the hospital’s Medical Explorers program.
The program, a collaboration between the hospital, the high school and the V.I. Council Boy Scouts of America, is designed to give tenth- and eleventh-grade students who have expressed an interest in the medical field a chance to experience it firsthand.
“I see this as an opportunity to let you know that the possibilities are endless,” Charlotte Amalie High School principal Carmen Howell told students. She said that they were lucky; her own son is also in the medical field a had to wait many years before he received his lab coat – they were getting theirs early.
The 20 students were specially selected for their academic excellence and expressed desire to go into the medical field. They will shadow hospital mentors throughout different areas of the hospital, including labor and delivery, the emergency room and the Charlotte Kimelman Cancer Institute. Participants will spend an hour and a half every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the hospital. The program runs until May 28.
Hospital CEO Alice Taylor said that 125 students have gone through the program – and of those students, more than half have gone on to pursue careers in health care. She said she hoped to expand the program to include students at other V.I. schools.
“Treat every patient that you encounter here as a member of your own family,” she told students.

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