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Program Director:
Dr. Rosemary Orgren
Research Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine Research Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine
Dartmouth Medical School
Community and Family Medicine
35 Centerra Parkway, HB7251
Lebanon, NH 03766
6036530851
rosemary.orgren@dartmouth.edu
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Dartmouth Medical School's (DMS) Precollege Outreach Initiative is designed to increase interest and competence in scientific inquiry among high school students from economically and educationally disadvantaged areas of New Hampshire. It establishes a structure for DMS and its faculty to engage in a program of sustained outreach that will have lasting impact on the science curriculum in the state.
Public health is the framework in which instructional and research activities occur, acting as a portal to basic and applied science disciplines including epidemiology, biology, biostatistics, behavioral and social sciences, genetics, chemistry, policy, environmental studies and more. DMS faculty have critical expertise in these disciplines, a rich literature and stimulating curricular resources are available to inform the project, many issues in public health have relevance and appeal to adolescents, and engaging in project-oriented curriculum and research has the potential to improve the health and health behaviors of participants.
We are implementing interconnected program components for high school students from six school districts, their science and health education teachers, and graduate students in public health.
Activities for high school students include a "Health Detectives Club" in which graduate students from Dartmouth Medical School's Masters of Public Health program lead all interested high school students through simulations and case studies based on real events and a more intensive program - the "Howard Hughes Research Scholars" program - in which students from among the collaborating schools compete to participate in a 20-student Summer Academy, follow-up summer seminars, a yearlong community-based public health research project, and written and oral presentation of their work.
High school teachers participate in a Summer Institute, which brings science and health education teachers together with faculty from Dartmouth Medical School, and with educators from the Dartmouth College Center for the Advancement of Learning and the Montshire Museum of Science to work on curriculum and teaching methods, and to delineate their roles in overseeing the Health Detectives Club and student research projects.
Graduate students provide leadership for five simulations or case studies during meetings of the Health Detectives Club in each school, and mentor those students completing research projects during their visits to schools and through weekly email and telephone correspondence.
The Medical School collaborators include Groveton, Newmarket, and Mascoma Valley Regional school districts (with three additional districts added at a later date), the New Hampshire Department of Education, New Hampshire Science Teachers Association, Dartmouth College Center for the Advancement of Learning, and the Montshire Museum of Science.
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