The University of Nevada,Reno School of Medicine held a 'Day in the Life of a Medical Student' for local community leaders and elected officials. The school hopes that by holding this event it will give officials an insight into public medical education and the challenges student face.
Among other topics were financing medical school, how to provide care for the uninsured and the role community partners play in educating future physicians. But first they needed their white coats and a run down on how hard it is just to become a med student, "How hard it is to get in, how hard they work, how hard the study, physicians don't just grow on trees here," says Dr. Thomas Schwenk, Dean of UNR School of Medicine.
After a quick reality check, participants took a trip to the Anatomy Lab. There some real four year students taught them about the functions of the heart, "To understand the training they have gone through and to see he experience they had and being able to convey that is wonderful," says participant Jason Mooris, attorney.
Not only are these participants living a day in a life of a student, but they also seeing how the school trains these future life savers, "Forming and creating future physicians that are going to take care of all of us and we need it," says Ivan Correa, Chief of Staff for the VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System.
At the end of the event all the participants 'graduate' from the school.
