Emergency Medicine Program
Think you might be interested in a career in Emergency Medicine? Test drive the field at this unique three week summer program offered by the Boston Leadership Institute. As a bonus, you’ll learn a ton about first aid tools and techniques. Want to hear more specifics:
Heart-thumping emergency scenes meet the latest breakthrough technologies in emergency medicine in this exciting new program!
Students will preview actual case studies of trauma from accident scenes ranging from car accidents to the aftermath of natural disasters such as hurricanes or avalanches.
In cases that require surgical intervention, they will preview anatomical structures and surgical techniques, conducting their own mock surgery and practicing their suturing techniques. They will learn about imaging techniques such as x-rays, MRIs, and techniques used by radiologists to assess the extent and nature of injuries.
For sprains and like injuries, they will learn diagnosis techniques and practice splinting injuries.
Teens will examine treatment for burn injuries as well, learning about and practicing immediate life-saving techniques. They will learn about longer-term solutions as well such as skin-grafting and advances from biomedical engineering that employ tissue scaffolding to create sheets of skin that may be used to save the lives of burn victims.
How do I get started? Look at the website for the Boston Leadership Institute for more information about dates and deadlines.
How do I expand this narrative arc? There are lots of interesting things that you can do to expand your narrative arc when you are interested in medicine and first aid:
Sponsor a CPR Course or a Blood Drive in your community through the American Red Cross.
Volunteer at a local hospital.
Launch a speaker series where local doctors and nurses come in to speak to students at your school about careers in medicine. Want to learn more? Download our PDF to Stand Out From the Pack - Done in a Day
Spend another summer doing research at one of the many top not institutions that offer summer programs for teens. For example:
Check out one of the many prestigious (and often paid) summer internships at top medical and research institutions across American. For example:
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT SUMMER PROGRAMS: College admissions officers are very adept at identifying “resume padders”: expensive, one-off programs paid for by your parents which do not mesh with your narrative arc. Therefore, make sure any summer program or course you consider falls into one (or more) of these four buckets:
Highly selective/competitive
Totally unique + linked to your narrative arc
Evidence of adulthood (long hours, multi-year commitment or simply hard work)
A jumping off point or expansion for an authentic narrative arc.
If none of the above apply, a program could still have value to you if it allows you to test a potential interest. However, if it does not end up being a jumping off point for further interests, then you may not want to mention it in your high school resume