Step into the shoes of a medical doctor and try your hand at several specialties from cardiology and pulmonology to radiology and more.

Practice taking vital signs, assessing patient history, and refining your bedside manner before tackling real-world case studies — created by Dr. Andrew Eyre of Brigham and Women’s Hospital — and collaborating with your peers to assess patients’ symptoms and quickly solve each case.

As a Medical Rounds student, you’ll work with medical professionals from top hospitals, practices, and simulation labs to develop skills from suturing and intubation to starting an IV and reading an X-ray. Ask questions, get advice, and make connections that can help you visualize future career paths in medicine.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

Body Systems – Explore major body systems through a pig dissection, and discover how the organs and skeletal structure relate to the human body, uncovering a world of medical terminology.

Diagnostic Tests – Review and interpret diagnostic texts, from MRI images to hemoglobin counts in blood tests. Identify healthy and unhealthy tissue under the microscope slides, and use the results of these tests to create a diagnosis.

Trip: Medical Simulation Labs – Visit state-of-the-art medical simulation labs to hone your medical skills. Whether placing IVs or a central line, scrubbing into surgery, or responding to a patient in cardiac arrest, you’ll receive real-time feedback from doctors and nurses.

Case Studies – Assess a variety of patient case studies and order imaging and lab tests for each, reviewing their symptoms and test results before announcing your final diagnosis. From the most common symptoms to those that still stump doctors, you’ll deepen your medical understanding and diagnostic abilities with each file.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

Body Systems – Explore major body systems through a pig dissection, and discover how the organs and skeletal structure relate to the human body, uncovering a world of medical terminology.

WHAT IS A CONCENTRATION?

Concentrations at EXPLO are a deep dive into a single subject for students who have a strong sense of what they’re interested in and what they may want to pursue for a career or future study.

Students who enroll in a concentration take just the single course over the course of one or two weeks (depending upon which program you choose). While you are part of the larger EXPLO community, you’ll find that most of your time is spent with your Intensive cohort — other students who, like you, are completely dialed in to the subject you’re exploring.

DATES

SESSION TWO
Aug 2 – Aug 8, 2020

GRADES

8-10

TUITION

$2,800

THIS CONCENTRATION ENCOMPASSES

Diagnostics, Emergency Medicine, Patient care, Science, Surgical skills

AT EXPLO, LEARNING IS MORE
THAN JUST HANDS-ON.

IT’S ALL IN.

Get out of the classroom and into the real world.

Immersive projects, expert professionals, career connections — every day at
EXPLO is packed with opportunities to explore the world of people and ideas.

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Medical Rounds taught me so much about medicine and what I need to know for my future career in the medical field. The instructors were incredible, and I really got an insider’s experience of the pace of working inside a hospital. There were so many things I thought I already knew about that turned out to be more complicated and complex. It was incredibly eye-opening for me.

ADVISORS + PAST SPEAKERS

Dr. Andrew Eyre

Physician, Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Dr. Andrew Eyre is a physician in the emergency departments of Brigham and Women’s and The Massachusetts General Hospital. His research has been published in the American Journal of Clinical Medicine and he has presented at the national meeting of the American Urologic Association. He began his medical career while an undergraduate at Williams College, working as a certified emergency medical technician with Village Ambulance Services. He brought his interest in medicine to EXPLO at Wheaton, where he worked as a staff member for three summers — as a teacher and residence director. Dr. Eyre was deeply involved in the development of both EXPLO’s Emergency Medicine and Sports Medicine Focus Programs. Dr. Eyre is a cum laude graduate of Williams College and earned his medical degree at The University of Vermont, where he won the Wasserman Prize for Scholastic Performance. He was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society and the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society.
Debra Skopicki

Clinical Assistant Professor, Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology

Dr. Debra Skopicki received her collegiate and M.D. degrees in the Brown University Program in Liberal Medical Education. After completing a medical internship at Yale-New Haven Hospital, she trained in dermatology at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. During her final year she was chosen as chief resident and awarded as an outstanding house officer by the medical school graduating class. Dr. Skopicki next completed a fellowship in Dermatopathology at Harvard’s Beth Israel Hospital. After moving back to her native New York, she served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology in the Dermatopathology section at New York University Medical Center before entering private practice on Long Island. Dr. Skopicki continues practicing both dermatology and dermatopathology and remains on faculty in the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology at New York University Langone Health. She has twice been honored as the part-time attending of the year by the dermatology residents of the New York University School of Medicine.

Dr. Skopicki is married to Dr. Hal Skopicki, the Chairman of Cardiology at Stonybrook University Hospital, and is most proud of her three daughters, two of which have attended EXPLO Boston, EXPLO New York and EXPLO Senior summer programs.
Robert Brown, M.D.

Pulmonologist, Massachusetts General Hospital

Dr. Robert Brown is a pulmonologist and respiratory specialist at internationally acclaimed Massachusetts General Hospital. His research focuses on respiratory dysfunction in patients with spinal cord injuries. He earned his medical degree from McGill University, completed his residency at Royal Victoria Hospital, and was a fellow at both RVH and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
New York Health + Hospitals

The Simulation Center provides simulation-based educational opportunities for healthcare providers to develop their clinical skills, teamwork, communication, and process improvement in both inpatient and ambulatory care settings. The center has provided thousands of hours of training to local doctors through the use of high-fidelity mannequins and develops programs involving cardiac, airway, and trauma scenarios, central line placement, emergency response procedures, and Virtual Reality simulations. Following each scenario, facilitators at the center engage participants in active debriefs and reflection to improve future clinical practice and research possibilities for improving simulation development and delivery. The Simulation Center has received accreditation from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare in all five standards, including assessment, research, teaching/education, and systems integration.