Current high school students looking for summer enrichment in the fields of medicine or public health, look no further than the INSIGHT Program for High School students from Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center. The application deadline has now passed.
Over the course of the intensive four-week summer program, students will learn from HIPRC faculty and work as a team to research, design and implement a public health campaign, culminating in a presentation at the INSIGHT Research Symposium.
Students will focus their team project on one of HIPRC’s five main research areas – traumatic brain injury, violence prevention, safe and active transport, global injury or injury care – and learn about the impacts and opportunities public health in these growing medical fields. Participants will also engage in professional development seminars, injury research seminars and tours of Seattle-area medical services such as Airlift Northwest and the Harborview Medical Center Emergency Department.
The 2017 INSIGHT High School program runs July 10 through Aug. 4 on the Harborview Medical Center campus. Applications, including a letter of recommendation, have been extended to April 30. Tuition is $2,000, but some scholarship funds are available based on demonstrated need.
For more information and to apply, visit the INSIGHT website.