Seventy students from the Oklahoma City metro area will trade desks for exam rooms as they participate in the annual Youth Medical Mentorship Summit. The hands-on summit, organized by Class Matters, a nonprofit providing STEM education to underrepresented youth, aims to expose students to a day-in-the-life in the medical field.

Empowering Future Clinicians

According to Dr. Jacob Cleveland, the summit provides students with an opportunity to experience the medical field firsthand. “They start the day in a white coat. They end the day in the white coat and getting to feel like clinicians,” Cleveland said. The summit is designed to give students a closer look at the medical field and show them that a career in medicine is within reach.

Darron Lamkin, executive director of Class Matters, emphasized the importance of exposing young people to different career paths, especially in STEM fields. “It’s never too late to show them something different, and it’s never a bad time to do a positive exposure for these young people,” Lamkin said. The summit is a unique opportunity for students to learn from medical professionals and gain valuable experience in the field.

Original reporting: Oklahoma City News Feed (HLL/CB) — read the source article.