Future Physicians America Summer Academy

University Medical Summer is a comprehensive summer program for students who are serious about pursuing medicine and want to get a competitive advantage for applying to BSMD programs or highly selective colleges. What sets the program apart from other medical camps is that students get individual tangible things they can list on their resume such as AHA, ASA and ACS certifications, and a first-hand immersion experience of what medicine is like. This is important because especially BSMD programs want to know why one wants to go into medicine, what type of knowledge/experiences have they had to be able to make that decision while still a teenager. Unlike other programs, University Medical Summer is taught by board certified practicing physicians who are also medical school faculty and bring over 45 years of collective teaching experience.

Our high school students publish their work as first author in pubmed indexed journals, and present their clinical research at national medical meetings.

Our alumni have gone to places such as the Brown PLME (every year), University of Central Florida Burnett Medical Scholars program, Virginia Commonwealth University Guaranteed Admission Program, University of Pittsburgh BS MD Guaranteed Admissions Program, Drexel BA/BS+MD Early Assurance program, Albany Medical College/Union College Leadership in Medicine Program, Boston University 7-Year Liberal Arts/Medical Education Program, Augusta University/Medical College of Georgia 3/4 BS-MD Program, The university of Rochester REMS program, and others.

University Medical Summer offers six weeks of summer programming. The Trauma & Surgical Skills, Cardiology & Resuscitation, Neurology and the Genetics, Forensics, & More courses can each be taken as stand-alone courses. In order to take the Medical Writing & Publishing course, students must take 3 out of 4 hands-on courses (Trauma & Surgical Skills, Cardiology & Resuscitation, Neurology, or Genetics, Forensics, & More). In order to participate in the Clinical Research Program, students must take all four of the clincial courses. Students who take all 6 courses can obtain a certificate designating this as a full summer medical internship.

1) The Cardiology and Resuscitation course (June 3-7, 2024) is an intensive one-week camp covering courses designed by the American Heart Association. Students get the same official course certifications that medical house officers receive. During this week we do hands-on medical simulation, a heart dissection, and delve into acute care resuscitation topics. We will also complete a course on EKG interpretation, learn how to read a chest x-ray.

2) The Trauma and Surgical Skills program (June 10-14, 2024) is a one-week camp in which we teach hands-on skills such as suturing, splinting, basic point of care ultrasonography, airway management, history and physical examination skills. We also have formal didactics on special topics in medicine. We wi