​The Doctor for a Day summit provides a small group (15-45) of high school and college students, with an interest in pursuing a medical career, the opportunity to learn about the journey toward becoming a doctor, interact with medical students and learn about clinical skills.   

The summit are usually available per request by foundations, organizations, schools or colleges for their students. 

Summit is hosted for FREE for accepted applications.

Eligibility:

• High schools, colleges, organizations, foundations or clubs 
• Ability to provide a class room or meeting location that can hold the students to host the summit. We can also work with local hospitals or medical schools to host the summit there if available.
• Time and date is based on discussion with YPI leader.
• Technology to project our program presentations.
• Assign a member to be the contact person.
• Approval by the leadership of the requester.
• Complete the summit application.

Participants: 15-45 students
Eligible students: high school or college (we will consider middle school)
Summit duration: 2 hours

Summit program:

Introduction to medicine (15-20 minutes
Speaker: doctor

Think like a doctor: medical case (45-60 minutes)
Speaker: medical students and doctor

Life as a doctor (15-20 minutes)
Speaker: doctor

Careers in medicine (15-20 minutes)
Speaker: doctor, NP, RN or PharmD

Closing and networking (15-20 minutes)

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