Warren Consolidated students selected for Future Docs

Three students from Warren Consolidated Schools' Career Preparation
Center were selected from among 200 applicants to participate in a
program to explore careers in medical-related fields.

Future Docs provides students with opportunities to learn about and
investigate careers in the multi-faceted medical field under the
tutelage of current medical students.

Career Preparation Center students Raymond Abbo, Catherine Mitts and
Nataly Salman were among 30 students from southeastern Michigan chosen
for the program. The three students study health science at the
center.

"We are very proud of our students, and we know they will gain
insightful knowledge about the medical field," said Kaleen Jubenville,
CPC health science teacher.

In the Future Docs program, students visit different facilities in
eight Saturday sessions to observe the daily work performed by
physicians and other medical professionals.

Each participant is assigned as a mentor, a current student from the
Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. The
students for the 2014 Future Docs program were selected by medical
students who served as mentors last year.

Among the venues scheduled for 2014 are: the Macomb County Medical
Examiner; Medstar Ambulance; McLaren Macomb and Henry Ford health
systems; Lakeshore Ear, Nose and Throat; Fraser Eye Care; and St.
John-Providence Hospital.

"With so many applicants for the program, we knew this would be a
tough competition," said Mary Kaurich, also a health science teacher
at Warren center. "… We encouraged our students to work hard on their
applications … We are so glad that their hard work has paid off."

The Future Docs program begins with orientation Jan. 25 and concludes
with a graduation ceremony in May.