FRESNO – Eleventh-grade students in the Doctors Academy programs at Caruthers and Selma high schools will get hands-on training in clinical skills on Wednesday, April 27 at the UCSF Fresno Center for Medical Education and Research (155 N. Fresno St.) in Fresno.
Clinical skills are the set of abilities that medical students must master in order to become licensed physicians. About thirty students will spend the day learning about patient-care services, language barriers, bedside manner and indentifying health issues in patients.
Highlights:
- 9:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Students will view instructional videos and discuss what they observed.
- 10:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Students will participate in actual hands-on learning experiences in obstetrics/gynecology and general surgery using and observing high-tech simulation equipment in the UCSF Fresno clinical skills lab.
- Noon to 12:45 p.m. Students will talk to medical students and residents and UCSF Fresno faculty members during lunch.
For more information, please contact Kasan Jones, program manager of Undergraduate Medical Education at UCSF Fresno at (559) 499-6516 or email [email protected]
