Sylvia Wallace - Phone: (619) 641-4175 - E-mail: Sylvia.M.Wallace@kp.org

Michael Dabney - Phone: (858) 822-3432 - E-mail: mdabney@ucsd.edu

What: Students from North County middle and elementary schools who belong to the Hippocrates Circle -- a program for minority students interested in medical careers -- will be touring the University of California, San Diego, medical school campus and seeing what med school is like. Among the highlights will be the youngsters having an informal lunch with medical students; touring the neuroscience laboratory; and a hands-on experience in the anatomy laboratory. The physicians and educators from UCSD and Kaiser Permanente, founders of the Hippocrates Circle program, will share their experiences and challenges.
““In this time of war and so much unrest in our world, the kids need to keep up their normal routines, keep their focus, work and study hard,” says Ricardo Sistos, MD, the Kaiser Permanente physician who created Hippocrates Circle. “They need to follow their dreams and have hope for their own futures.”

When: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 from11:00 am to 2:30 pm.

Where: UCSD Medical School,Corner of Gilman and Myers, La Jolla.

Why: This is part of the planned activity program of the Hippocrates Circle. The mission of the Hippocrates Circle is to create in young people of all nationalities and both genders the awareness that a career in medicine, and specifically as a physician, is possible.

Who: Students from: San Marcos Unified School District and Escondido Elementary School District.

Visuals: Students “trying out” lab equipment, interacting with physicians and medical students. They will all be wearing specially designed Hippocrates Circle T-shirts.

Hippocrates Circle Students Schedule for
UCSD Medical School Tour
Wednesday, April 23, 3003

10: 50 am Buses arrive with students at UCSD (corner of Gilman & Myers near
Admissions)

11:05- 11:20 Brief walking tour of key campus sites on the way to Medical School.

11:20-12:15 Group arrives at Medical School’s Club Med restaurant. Lunch with med students on lawn area outside Club Med.

12:15-1:30 Medical Student Lab Suites – HC students rotate through 3 hands-on medical lab presentations (20 mins each) – brain study, microscope study, and anatomy labs.

1:30-1:50 Garren Hall – Med school mini-lecture by Dr. Charles Simmons, ER physician and UCSD med school grad, on relevant ER topic for kids.

1:50-2:10 Garren Hall --What kids can be doing now to prepare for medical school – Percy Russell, Ph.D., member of UCSD Medical School Admissions Committee, and Patrick Velasquez, Director of UCSD OASIS academic program.

2:10-2:20 Garren Hall - Medical Students introduce themselves and briefly tell something about themselves (i.e. where they grew up and went to school) and what a typical day in medical school is like for them.

2:20-:2:25 Garren Hall – Brief closing remarks by Dr. Sistos, and recitation of Hippocrates
Oath.