Train for your future career as a medical professional at the NSLC on Medicine & Health Care.

At the National Student Leadership Conference on Medicine & Health Care, serving as a health professional becomes a reality. While at the NSLC, you will perform clinical rounds, learn medical examination and surgical techniques, and participate in diagnosis and treatment while solving the mystery of a fatal outbreak sweeping the nation. You and your team will grapple with controversial medical issues, learn about today’s health care challenges and explore advanced scientific research in areas such as cancer and HIV/AIDS.

Program Highlights

Gain surgical experience
Practice essential skills including suturing, dissection, and surgical knot tying.

Clinical diagnostics simulation
Throughout multiple patient visits you'll learn how to ask the right questions, order the proper tests, and give an accurate diagnosis.

Tour medical facilities
Get a preview of medical school and talk with current students, researchers, and residents.

Public health project
Keep a community healthy by creating a media campaign to spread information on illness and disease prevention.

Hands-On Simulations

The NSLC on Medicine & Health Care uses an interactive approach to learning that gives you the opportunity to immerse yourself in the challenging complexities of the medical profession. Our youth leadership summer medical programs for high school students will expose you to the techniques of doctors and other medical professionals during hands-on clinical rounds.

You will work with your team to identify a public health issue affecting your community. Then, you will develop an intervention to address that concern. Once you’ve mastered the basics, you and your team will work quickly to diagnose and treat your patients in a true-to-life outbreak simulation.

Hands-on workshops include:

  • Suturing
  • Testing Vital Signs
  • Surgical Knot-Tying
  • Identifying Cranial Nerves

Exclusive Guest Speakers

While at the NSLC’s summer high school medical program, you will meet with and learn from leaders in the medical community. In past years, NSLC students have heard from special guest speakers including the Surgeon General, the Director of the American Red Cross and top medical researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the J. David Gladstone Institutes.

Examples of past guest speakers include:

Dr. Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, National Institutes of Health

Vice Admiral Vivek Murthy
U.S. Surgeon General

Dr. Rachel Brem, M.D.
Director, Breast Imaging and Intervention Center

Dr. Michael Terry, M.D.
Head Team Physician, Chicago Blackhawks

Dr. Warren Wallace, M.D.
Associate Dean for Admissions, Feinberg School of Medicine

Dr. Cindy Chang
USOC Chief Medical Officer, 2012 London Olympics

Dane Peterson
CEO of Emory University Hospital

Dr. Costas Hadjipanayis, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief of Neurosurgery, Emory University Hospital Midtown

Dr. Ira Schwartz, M.D.
Director of Admissions, Emory University School of Medicine

Behind-the-Scenes Tours

An important part of the NSLC summer high school medical program is seeing the sites around some of our nation’s greatest cities. These trips are designed as both sightseeing tours and exclusive educational trips specifically tailored to the area of Medicine.

These trips may include:

American University

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | University of Maryland School of Medicine | Walter Reed Medical Center | The Smithsonian Institution | Historic D.C. Monuments at Night | Baltimore Harbor | Capitol Hill

Duke University

Duke Human Simulation & Patient Safety Center | UNC Clinical Skills & Patient Simulation Center | Franklin Street | West Campus | North Carolina Museum of Natural Science

Northwestern University

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine | Northwestern Memorial Hospital | Northwestern University Simulation Center | Magnificent Mile | Navy Pier

University of California, Berkeley

The Gladstone Institutes | Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital | UC Berkeley School of Optometry | Fisherman’s Wharf | Pier 39 and Ghirardelli Square

University of Miami

University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies Simulation Hospital Advancing Research and Education | Philip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science | Lincoln Road

Yale University

Yale School of Medicine | Massachusetts General Hospital, the oldest & largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School | Medical Simulation Lab | Boston Museum of Science | Historic Faneuil Hall & Quincy Market

Leadership Training

At the heart of each of our youth leadership programs is a curriculum designed to build concrete leadership skills that will help you succeed. Interactive lectures and small-group workshops will give you an opportunity to build upon your strengths and minimize your weaknesses.

Leadership topics tailored to the Medicine & Health Care program include:

  • Personality Styles and Group Dynamics
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Negotiation
  • Public Speaking
  • Intrapersonal Communication

College Credit Option

American University (AU) and NSLC have a unique partnership that enables you to earn college credit by enrolling in a supplemental online course designed to correlate with your NSLC program’s area of study. By enrolling in this credit course, you will enjoy a stimulating, innovative, and personalized college-level learning experience that builds on your NSLC accomplishments. The course is for one credit and is taught in a self-paced, asynchronous format across six weeks, allowing ample time to complete assignments. The course is designed to work within the framework of NSLC; students are not expected to complete coursework while on campus. Students may register for college credit via their personal student portal (myNSLC) once they have enrolled in an NSLC session.

Click here to learn more about this opportunity.

Tuition

Program tuition includes housing, all on-campus meals, course materials, academic expenses, and activities. Tuition also includes chartered, air-conditioned motor coaches for off-campus briefings and tours. Note: Students are responsible for the cost of travel to and from the program as well as individual spending money for souvenirs, laundry, and a few off-campus meals during fields trips and tours.

Click here to view our cancellation and refund policy.

LocationTuition
Chicago, Miami, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.$3,795
Durham$3,895
New Haven$3,995
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