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Article: IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME, THEY'RE ALL STUDYING EXPLORING CAREERS AT UMASS MEDICAL SCHOOL
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 16, 1987
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WORCESTER - The University of Massachusetts Medical School
is teaching 14-year-olds this summer. Seventeen high-school
freshmen are operating on rats and doing microbiology experiments,
pursuing pediatrics and exploring nutrition in the Ron McNair
Health Science Professions Program, named for the late Challenger
astronaut. The students take premed courses in the morning and work
at the UMass Medical Center in the afternoons, earning $100 a week.
Freshman Alberto Galindo, who once got an F in earth science
at South High Community School in Worcester, says that working with
graduate student tutors has changed his thinking. "I came to UMass
med school to change my attitude from 'I ...