Medical Rotations Concentration

Practice the skills + explore the challenges faced by physicians every day

In EXPLO’s medicine program for high schoolers, you’ll get access to clinical training experiences that are usually reserved only for professionals and medical students. Network with doctors in a variety of medical careers, practice in a state-of-the-art medical simulation lab, and begin to see the world differently. In this medical summer program, you’ll gain the foundational skills that medical doctors must use each day.

Session 1:
Residential: June 30 - July 19
Commuter: July 1 - July 18
Session 2
Residential: July 21 – August 9
Commuter: July 22 - August 8
Location:
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Staff to Student Ratio 1:6
Tuition
Residential: $7,895
Commuter: $3,995

Tuition + Financial Aid

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Program description

Under the guidance of medical experts in this medical summer program, you’ll look through the lens of a third-year med school student and gain clinical skills, all while wrestling with case studies and simulated patient encounters. Rotate through specialties like internal medicine, oncology, pediatrics, emergency medicine, obstetrics, and surgery. Receive updates on patients during rounds and determine the best course of treatment by monitoring vital signs, reviewing patient charts, and navigating electronic health records. Enhance your decision-making capabilities and learn essential leadership and teamwork skills as your group responds to a simulated drop in your patient’s vitals, all while answering rapid-fire questions from doctors and the interprofessional team. Learn the importance of avoiding snap judgments, contending with uncertainty, communicating effectively and humanely, and working as an effective team to deliver quality care to your patients. This immersive medicine program for high schoolers even provides pre-med and med school admissions guidance.

STRATUS Sim Lab Training

In this medical summer program, you’ll participate in case-based simulation training with high fidelity mannequins at a medical simulation center that regularly trains medical professionals with a high degree of realism. The STRATUS Sim lab is part of Boston Brigham + Women's Hospital, a teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School.

Patient Rounds + Hands-on Clinical Training

Create sample records using medical SOAP notes and plan the next steps in patient care. Practice measuring vital signs, reading pathology reports, and basic techniques such as suturing and surgical knot-tying.

Current Issues + Emerging Technology

Explore current questions in the field of medicine and complex issues facing doctors, researchers, and allied health professionals every day. In this medicine program for high schoolers, get up close with some of the newest technology used in patient care, such as the da Vinci Surgical System.

Medical School Admissions

Learn from pre-medical and medical school admissions professionals how to prepare to apply to medical programs—and even get the chance to participate in mock admission interviews.

Experience a Day in the Life with Meshari

Medical Rotations Concentration

What Lights Me Up:

“I’ve always known I wanted to be a doctor. Both my parents are doctors. My mom’s an oncologist and my dad is a cardiac surgeon, but I’ve never been sure what kind—there are so many! I love working with kids, so pediatrics sounds good, but I’m fascinated by surgery too. So I’m learning as much anatomy as I can, in school and just on my own.”

Meshari's Schedule

Get up close

Get hands-on at places like the STRATUS Sim Lab at Boston’s Brigham + Women’s Hospital, where you’ll work through different medical
simulation stations.

Meet and work
with medical
professionals like Kaleigh O'Keefe, RN at Boston Medical Center's Emergency Department, who leads IV and phlebotomy labs.

Advisors + Faculty + Speakers

Take a look at some of the advisors, program faculty, and speakers over the years to get a sense of who has had a hand in shaping our curriculum. You get the real deal here at EXPLO.

Christian Arbelaez, MD MPH

Chief, Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston Medical Center + Chair, Chobanian + Avedisian School of Medicine

Robert Truog, MD

Professor of Medical Ethics, Anesthesiology + Pediatrics + Director, Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School

Jason Lazar MD

Professor of Medicine, Director of Non-Invasive Cardiology + Director of Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship Training Program, SUNY Downstate Medical Center University Hospital

Celine Gounder, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine + Infectious Diseases, New York University Grossman School of Medicine

Andrew Eyre, MD MS-HPED

Medical Director, STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation, Brigham + Women's Hospital

Nikkole Turgeon, MD

Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston Medical Center

Earn college credit

All EXPLO Pre-College Career Concentrations offer the opportunity to earn two to three college credits before you even enroll in college.

Learn About College Credit

Everything you need for a summer to remember

Explore future careers as a residential student...

Live the on-campus life with a roommate, meals in the dining hall, and all the support you need from live-in deans, and residence directors and advisors.

Residential Program Details

...or a commuter

Enjoy access to all the same facilities and activities as residential students, with the option to spend three evenings of your choice on campus included in your tuition.

Commuter Program Details

Medical Rotations

Immersive medicine program for high schoolers

Practice the skills + explore the challenges faced by physicians every day

Learn real-world medical skills + technology

Lead Instructor

Medical Rotations

Tinuola Ajayi

Program description