JeffSTAT Critical Care Transport Nurse Joanne Cannon, RN, gives visiting high school students an up-close view of a JeffSTAT vehicle. Don Walker Photography

University Gives High School Visitors Inside View of Biomedical Careers

A group of top-flight science students from a magnet high school in northern New Jersey received a firsthand look at the healthcare field in a three-day program of lectures and tours of research and medical facilities at Thomas Jefferson University.

A total of 39 students and six faculty members from the Academy for Medical Science Technology (AMST) in Hackensack, Bergen County, hosted by the College of Graduate Studies, met with researchers, toured the hospital, visited in the Division of Diagnostic Ultrasound and the Department of Physical Therapy and heard lectures by Wolfgang H. Vogel, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Jefferson Medical College (JMC) and Bernard L. Lopez, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, JMC.

In addition, the Department of Emergency Medicine and JeffSTAT staff members gave the visiting students an inside look at modern emergency medicine procedures.

The AMST program addresses complex medical issues through academic research infused with technology. Professionals from both the medical and educational communities come together to create a collaborative healthcare environment. Its broad base of mathematical, scientific, technical and medical knowledge prepares students for graduation, and on to future careers in medicine and science.