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July 5, 2008
Star student selected for conference
Alexander Prewitt of Stratford, a student at St. Joseph High School, Trumbull, was recently selected to attend the 2008 Congressional Student Leadership Conference on Medicine & Healthcare in Boston, June 30 through July 9. The program, sponsored by LeadAmerica, is a college-accredited invitational leadership program for academically talented and promising young leaders from across the United States and internationally. Prewitt joins other exceptional high school students with records of academic achievement and extracurricular or community involvement who are invited to participate.
During the 10-day program, students take on the roles of health-care professionals and learn to manage a patient’s case, making health-care decisions based on new medical facts and circumstances presented each day. In a hands-on learning environment, they work with cutting-edge robotic simulators that look and respond like real patients, or participate in a patient simulation where medical actors play the roles of patients with unidentified illnesses.
The program is designed in cooperation with Georgetown University School of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Chicago Medical School. These leading medical schools give CSLC students access to their facilities and laboratories and insights into the challenges facing the medical profession.
Posted by Bustraan on July 5, 2008 7:13 PM
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