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Encourage your family, friends, and community members to join us
The following guide contains ideas for creating interactive activities with high school and college-age pre-med students, based on your professional or community role.
I am a healthcare provider / faculty member
Give a talk to explain your career path and role / field with time for Q&A (30 mins)
Host a virtual or in-person tour of your department, lab space, OR (if possible) (30 mins)
Provide mentorship
Availability for informational interviews with interns
Work with interns to set up future internships with your team (summers)
I am a researcher
Give a talk to explain your career path and role / field with time for Q&A (30 mins)
Host a virtual or in-person tour of your department, lab space, OR (if possible) (30 mins)
Demo tech tools you use in your daily work (30 mins - 1 hour)
Have interns rotate through stations of interactive activities done in your lab (1-2 hours)
Suggestion: 2-3 stations, 1 host per station, intro role → do activity → Q&A
Provide mentorship
Availability for informational interviews with interns
Work with interns to set up future internships with your team (summers)
I am a resident
Host small group discussions on career paths & finding your specialization (30 mins)
Participate in an informal lunch / get to know you session with interns (1 hour)
Provide mentorship
Availability for informational interviews with interns
Work with interns to set up future internships with your team (summers)
I am a medical student
Host small group discussions on career paths & finding your specialization (30 mins)
Participate in an informal lunch / get to know you session with interns (1 hour)
Provide mentorship
Availability for informational interviews with interns
Work with interns to set up future internships with your team (summers)
Have interns rotate through stations of interactive activities based on themes (1-2 hours)
Host a medical or health sciences-themed mini course or patient interview (30 mins)
I am a staff member
Provide support in connecting healthcare colleagues with interns
Assistant / executive / administrative logistics, resources, scheduling finalizations, and suggested courses of action to take to make solid program connections
Help us create more program activities
Examples may be activities already done in your department in other programs
I am a patient or community member, and am committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion
Suggest community programs we can partner with to expand our programming
Help us create more program activities
Examples may be community events that you and your children may have participated in (e.g. museums, classes, festivals / fairs) that we can use as reference
Give a talk about your patient or community experience to provide the interns with a personal perspective on the patient side of healthcare.
I am a professional expert / speaker
Give a talk to explain your career path and role / field with time for Q&A (30 mins)
Host an interactive activity for interns to dive deeper into your field of expertise (30 mins)
Provide mentorship
Availability for contact / communications with interns
Who do I contact to participate in NCIP?
Contact Yesenia Velásquez ([email protected]) to participate as a host or mentor, confirm dates for each cycle (Fall/Spring/Summer), or discuss how to support NCIP.
Tips on interacting with youth, including children, teenagers, and college-age students:
With slides: Use many images (people & tech tools) and bullet points or concise text
With talking: Explain professional terms / jargon, use “I” or “we” statements and stories
With stories: Students love stories, this can open up more conversations and questions
With activities: Concise instructions, walk through steps in action, repetition = practice
With stations, for example:
Mount Zion Surgical Center: Scrub up, suture knot-tying, laparoscopic technique
Baraban Lab: Identify female & male zebrafish, stages of development, pipetting
