Medical Society. It’s one of those clubs that every Jesuit student has heard about. Whether it be the desire to become a doctor, or just curiosity about living things, the Medical Society has attracted a number of students and is one of Jesuit’s biggest, most prestigious extracurricular activities. But, what has Medical Society been up to this semester?
Traditionally, freshmen...
Jesuit’s Medical Society hosts a guest speaker from a different medical field each month to help teach students about the expansive careers in medicine that they may wish to pursue. This past Tuesday, Dr. Hsuch-Ming Lee gave a presentation to the Medical Society on his profession in periodontistry and how he found his call to be a dentist.
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Over the summer of 2019, three students of Jesuit's Medical Society participated in the S.T.A.R.S. Program. The S.T.A.R.S. (Science Teacher Access to Resources at Southwestern) program for students is a research program where students are paired with a mentor that helps them as they conduct research. With the help of the mentor, the students select a topic and research...
The large group of Jesuit students crowd around the large brown podium, as the group eagerly awaits the arrival of their speaker of the month. They jump into their seats once they notice that the door creaked open. As the students would soon learn, this was not the Medical Society's usual speaker of the month; instead, this meeting more...
On Wednesday, November 5th, members of Jesuit's Medical Society embarked on a field trip to the UT Southwestern Medical School. According to Mr. Max von Schlehenried, one of the directors for the Medical Society, this trip to UT Southwestern was a part of a larger program, known as the STARS Program, which stands for Student Teacher Access to Resources...
Instructed by biology teacher Mrs. Jan Jones, the Medical Society students quickly don both their safety coats and rubber gloves. Carefully choosing the right surgical tools for the procedure, they begin the meticulous task of dissecting the body of a cat. Precisely creating an incision down the center of the cat with a scalpel, the students identify the digestive...
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As Jesuit Medical Society starts off a brand new 2019 year, one of the many exciting opportunities for juniors such as Marco Orendain '20, Jack Corrales '20, and Will Nickols '20 is clinical rotations. Once every two weeks on Wednesday, they head to the Dallas Presbyterian Hospital to shadow and...
Donning their white lab coats, three rising Jesuit Seniors will participate in a fantastic research program at UT Southwestern Medical School called the STARS program (Science Teacher Access to Resources at Southwestern). Under the program, students work one on one with a researcher from the prestigious UT Southwestern Medical Center and assist them in carrying out groundbreaking research. The...
