High School girls Chester County are putting on scrubs for the state’s first-ever year-long youth internship program.
The inaugural class of Girls in Medicine will venture into classrooms, exam rooms, labs and more in clinics, hospitals and beyond. And they’ll “draw blood and identify pathogens, perform CPR, get [their] first-aid certifications,” shadow healthcare professionals and participate in a clinical rotation, according to a Main Line Today report by Melissa Jacobs.
“We want them to understand the academic, social and emotional challenges of working in healthcare,” Girls in Medicine Founder and Director Marrea Smith said in the article.
That class consists of 62 high school girls.
“I think this program will help me decide if I really want to do medicine,” Henderson High School senior Priyanka Chunduru said. “Hopefully it’s a yes.”
Read more about the new Girls in Medicine internship, orchestrated by The Clinic in Phoenixville, in Main Line Today here.
