Photo By Petty Officer 1st Class Jacob Sippel | JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Nov. 12, 2019) – Capt. Matthew Case, Naval Hospital Jacksonville...... read more read more
Naval Hospital Jacksonville kicked off its 2019-2020 Science, Service, Medicine and Mentoring (S2M2) program on Nov. 12 at Darnell-Cookman School of the Medical Arts.
About 100 ninth and 10th graders attended the kick-off.
“S2M2 gives our students unique insights into potential career pathways in military medicine,“ said Tyrus Lyles, principal of Darnell-Cookman School of the Medical Arts.
Seven NH Jacksonville clinicians, including its commander and executive officer, shared personal experiences, inspirational stories, and pathways to pursue health careers. Hospital speakers included the commander, two physicians, a dentist, pharmacist, nurse, and an independent duty hospital corpsman. Two S2M2 student alumni also shared their experiences from the S2M2 summer internship at the hospital in 2019.
Following the panel discussions, break-out sessions enabled students to hear first-hand about the speakers’ unique roles in healing the nation’s heroes, in the military health system.
Darnell-Cookman will select about a dozen 9th and 10th graders for NH Jacksonville’s summer internship. Participants will gain real-world medical experiences by rotating through outpatient, inpatient, and surgical areas of the hospital. Students also participate in a bones and joints workshop, experience the simulation laboratory, and learn how Navy hospital corpsmen prepare to provide care on battlefields.
“S2M2 gives students the opportunity to hear the real-life experiences of our military medical professionals, who provide care on ships and battlefields as well as here at home,” said Capt. Matthew Case, NH Jacksonville commander and Navy Medicine Readiness & Training Command commanding officer. “In turn, our staff get to nurture the next generation of health scientists.”
Science, Service, Medicine and Mentoring (S2M2) was originally developed in 2004 by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and adopted in 2010 by NH Jacksonville. S2M2’s goal is to encourage students’ commitment to science and medicine in a welcoming and intellectually nurturing environment.
Darnell-Cookman School of the Medical Arts is a Blue Ribbon school, providing high performing students with an advanced academic curriculum, including an overview of the professional medical fields. The school equips students for future success in college and graduate school.
In 2007, it became the nation’s first 6th – 12th grade college-prep program with a focus on medical arts and sciences. The school consistently makes the Washington Post’s list of America’s Most Challenging High Schools.
Naval Hospital Jacksonville and Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Jacksonville deliver quality health care, in an integrated system of readiness and health. NH Jacksonville includes five branch health clinics across Florida and Georgia. It serves 163,000 active-duty and retired sailors, Marines, soldiers, airmen, guardsmen, and their families, including 75,000 patients who are enrolled with a primary care manager.
To find out more, visit www.tricare.mil/MTF/Jacksonville.
| Date Taken: | 11.12.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 11.12.2019 13:51 |
| Story ID: | 351431 |
| Location: | JACKSONVILLE, FL, US |
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