Maimonides Health Program Offers Early Healthcare Experience to NYC Students

Health Scholars Program at Maimonides

• 💡 The Health Scholars program at Maimonides Health in Brooklyn provides high school and college students with early exposure to healthcare careers.
• 🎯 The initiative aims to spark interest in medicine and prevent future healthcare worker shortages.

Hands-On Training and Patient Interaction

• 🩺 Students practice skills like suturing on fake skin and undergo CPR training.
• 🤝 They learn the importance of comforting patients and setting expectations, even before graduating.
• 🏥 Participants observe and interact within the emergency department, offering comfort and holding patients' hands.

Lessons in Compassion and Professionalism

• 🧠 Dr. Daniel Novak emphasizes bringing comfort and professionalism to patients, even in simulated critical situations like cardiac arrest.
• 💔 A student shares a personal experience where a doctor lacked compassion during a family medical emergency, highlighting the program's focus on patient-centered care.

Bridging the Healthcare Gap

• 📈 The American Hospital Association predicts a significant shortage of healthcare workers by 2028, a challenge felt acutely in states like New York.
• 🚀 The Maimonides program was created to help bridge this gap by nurturing the next generation of healthcare professionals.
• 🧭 Students gain clarity on their career paths, with some discovering a preference for nursing over physicians after experiencing different roles.
• ✨ Leaders hope these early lessons in care and comfort will form the foundation for tomorrow's trauma centers.