Press Release

For Immediate Release
Contact: Kaylyn Kendall Dines
(973) 972-7276
www.umdnj.edu

At UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Physicians and Medical Students Host Student Doctor Program for Youth at UMDNJ

Physicians and medical students at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) will host a program that gives children an opportunity to become a "Student Doctor for an Evening." The program will be held on Tuesday, April 1, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 125 Paterson Street, New Brunswick.

The Women's Health Institute at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is sponsoring the second annual "Student Doctor for an Evening" program to introduce youngsters to medical education. This allows children to imagine becoming a physician and participate in a hands on, medical education activities.

Parents will observe as medical students from the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School guide the youngsters through mock "clinical rotations" at a simulated hospital. The clinical rotations will include areas such as pediatrics, obstetrics, surgery, emergency medicine and research. The youthful "student doctors" will use a stethoscope to listen to heart sounds, practice suturing wounds and use reflex hammers as part of a neurological examination.

The youngsters reside in areas such as East Brunswick, Edison, Highland Park and New Brunswick.

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WHAT: "Student Doctor for an Evening" program at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

WHEN: Tuesday, April 1, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Clinical Academic Building, 125 Paterson Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey

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