A participating high school student is led through a practical experiment during the WCM-Q Virtual Summer Program.
Talented high school students in eight countries were welcomed to the new Virtual Summer Program (VSP) of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q), recently.
VSP is a week-long online initiative that offers a glimpse of life as a medical student at an elite university.
A total of 76 high school students in Qatar, Morocco, Kuwait, Canada, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman and UAE logged in for the five-day program, which featured online learning classes in biology, chemistry, anatomy and disease investigation led by WCM-Q’s world-class teaching faculty.
The VSP, which was offered by WCM-Q’s Office of Student Outreach and Educational Development, also included sessions delivering information on careers in medicine, advice on how to write a personal statement for college applications, a meeting with admissions professionals and an introduction to the WCM-Q Student Research Association. There were also free-form live chat sessions at the end of each day to allow the students to get to know one another and ask questions.
Speaking to students in the virtual event, Noha Saleh, Director of Premedical Administration, Student Outreach, and Educational Development said, “Our newly launched VSP, which is part of our Enrichment Program series, gives us an extremely effective tool for reaching out to the very brightest minds from schools all over Qatar, the MENA region and beyond to show them just how exciting and rewarding studying and pursuing careers in medicine through WCM-Q can be. The students and faculty engaged with great enthusiasm and energy and created a real buzz online, which made the inaugural VSP a remarkable success — we are looking forward to receiving many high-quality applications to study at WCM-Q as a result.”
WCM-Q offers a unique fully integrated Six-Year Medical Program, which comprises a two-year pre-medical curriculum and a four-year medical curriculum. Students who successfully complete the program receive the same Cornell University MD degree awarded to graduates of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York.
