Five high school students are spending six weeks this summer exploring the field of surgery, even practicing skills like suturing at the simulation center that opened last fall on the first floor of UW Hospital. The minority students are participating in a first-ever Clinical Research Experiences for High School Students made possible because the UW School of Medicine and Public Health was one of nine institutions nationwide to receive grants from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The foundation launched the program because minorities remain underrepresented in medical research careers and some of the participants may become the first in their families to attend college.
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