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Yesenia Buenrostro, left, checks the day's appointments with Kaiser Permanente Buy Now pediatrician Dr. Aimee Simbre. The Doctors Academy at Selma High School encourages Melissa McCarthy switches gears in ‘Tammy’ students to seek medical professions and return to work in underserved areas. A tale of two scans: Which is better - a CT scan or an MRI?

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“The circumcision was the highlight of my day. It was so interesting,” Buenrostro said. Featured Businesses The Selma High School incoming senior is shadowing pediatricians for the next six weeks at Kaiser Permanente’s Selma Medical Offices. She’s one of 10 area students enrolled in the Brown's Shoe Fit Co Inc University of California San Francisco-Fresno Doctors Academy following local physicians and nurses during their actual appointments to get a realistic idea of what their own future medical DJ Hunt Entertainment professions may involve.

Caruthers High’s Jose Lara is also at the medical offices with Dr. Richard Piel, a family medicine Blinds Etc. physician at Kaiser Permanente.

The Doctors Academy is at Caruthers, Selma and Sunnyside high schools and prepares students An Enchanted Florist for health professions. Aside from the job shadowing experience, the program gives students extensive academic, personal and career counseling. Students are placed after their junior year and work with a variety of medical professionals such as ophthalmologists, pathologists and orthopedics. Little Feet Child Care & Preschool Inc. Buenrostro said the help with personal statements for college applications, exposure to real-life medical settings, doctors’ forums and yearly visits to university campuses have only increased her Find a local business yearning to become a nurse practitioner specializing in pediatrics.

Find us on Facebook “I just want to jump right in,” she said. It was only her third day in the program, and Buenrostro was also eager to get into the examining rooms and see pediatrician Dr. Aimee Simbre’s young Selma Enterprise patients. Like You like this. Like Four-month-old Leah Johnson was there for a well-baby check-up and parents Chad Johnson and Laura Galvan had questions for Dr. Simbre. You and 994 others like Selma Enterprise.994 people like Selma Enterprise.

During the exam, Buenrostro was able to view Leah’s ears as Dr. Simbre checked for a possible ear infection.

“I try to get her as much hands-on as possible so she can get a full taste of what pediatricians do," Simbre said. She sees the calendar, sees that I’m busy, so she’ll learn time management.”

Buenrostro will also shadow Dr. Lorraine Lopez and will get called in to her appointments when Facebook social plugin there are any unusual symptoms. Promos

“How often do you get to hear a heart murmur?” Simbre said of one case. HomesTriCounty.net While Buenrostro feels ready for her college experience she knows there’s much more work ahead before she even graduates high school.

“We have to write a 12-page research paper and then present it. We were kind of like, ‘Whoa,’” Her research will focus on Type II diabetes.

Simbre thinks with the Doctors Academy experience, students such as Buenrostro and Lara will Online Poll enter medical school with a definite advantage.

“I like this program because it’s so early. This early exposure will make later things make more Loading… sense, like why you have to study physiology to see how healthy organs work.”

Meanwhile, Lara said his goal is to become a family physician and return to the Valley came after suffering a burst appendix during fifth grade. He spent nearly two months in a coma recuperating

from internal organ damage.

Now as an incoming senior, he’s focused on upcoming class work. WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 2014 “They really challenge us to take the most vigorous courses at our school,” he said. Taking a look 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 at an early chemistry course, Lara admits the classes will be tough. The Middle Goldberg Modern Goldberg KFSN Fam “It was scary to say the least,” he said before making rounds to watch as Dr. Piel examined KGPE Big Brother (N) Under the Dome patients with diabetes, high blood pressure, prostrate and bladder concerns. Recalling his Arrow The 100 "Earth Kills" motivation to become a doctor in the first place, Lara says it’s the treatment he received while KFRE recuperating from appendicitis. So You Think You Can Dance (N) "Top 20

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