Med-Camp introduce Emirati high schoolers to medicine

Enthusiastic students at the Medical Camp

ABU DHABI , (UAE): It was a lucky day for Emirati high school students in the form of Medical Camp by Khalifa University. Those who are ambitious to pursue a career in medical field got a chance to brush with their dream for a while. Students got a hands-on about their dream profession.

The five day camps was organized two times by Khalifa University for a selected 40 students in grade 10 and 11. Those with an ambition to become a professional in healthcare were only permitted to the camp.

Khalifa University conducted these camps as part of creating awareness about the medical field among the students. Khalifa University has also planned to open a medical school in Abu Dhabi in September 2015. This will be Abu Dhabi’s first medical school. So University promotes various medical professions among students to inspire and attract them into these courses in future.

Dr Rashed Al Nuaimi, executive director of the college of medicine and health sciences initiative at Khalifa University, said he hoped participants in Med-Camp would be encouraged to pursue an education in medicine.

The medical school is expected to accommodate up to 3,000 students and 762 staff. It will be built at Khalifa University, increasing the campus in size from 34,500 square metres to 169,500 square metres. “We would like to attract the cream of the high schools,” Dr Al Nuaimi said.

“We try to recruit or to start to target the students from the ninth to the 11th grade high-school students, male and female, so when they come to enter university, they go for biomedical engineering.We hope this is the way that we can approach the society, to recruit more and to have more actually be on board in biomedical engineering, so that they will be the future doctors in Khalifa University studying medicine.”- he said.

“This time we have workshops on robotics, workshops on biology-related things like dissection, blood typing, a crime-scene investigation, sports medicine, things like this. When I was a high-school student, I really wish I had a camp like this to motivate me for science and to pursue a degree in medicine. I want to encourage students to attend the programme, even if they don’t like science, even if they think they want to do business or engineering or maths. Just attend, see it and then decide.”- says Dr. Al Nuaimi.

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