The summer high school medical program curriculum is modeled on actual Penn Medicine first year classes, but redesigned to engage bright high school students who are serious about medical careers. The program exposes you to the basics of medical training while allowing you the opportunity to pursue or discover your passions and interests. Each morning, you will participate in interactive lectures and labs by Penn clinicians on the day’s featured topics, including transplant surgery, emergency medicine, cancer, resuscitation science, kidney disease and sports medicine. Afternoons will be devoted to a variety of hands-on, virtual and simulated experiences at Penn’s Clinical Simulation Center and other sites. At Penn Medicine you will: Learn techniques of CPR and First Aid Learn to suture, tie surgical knots, and perform skin biopsies Learn to draw blood, start an IV, and perform a spinal tap Learn minimally invasive surgical techniques and perform virtual surgery Dissect an eye and a brain Attend labs in pathology, microbiology, and urine analysis, which are modeled on actual med school labs Observe live surgery in Penn’s Flyers/76ers Surgical Amphitheater Listen to lung sounds and heart sounds Visit the world-renowned Mütter Museum, America’s finest museum of medical history, to see its collection of anatomical specimens

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