{"id":522,"date":"2018-05-03T10:24:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T14:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mini-med\/?page_id=522"},"modified":"2021-09-03T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T20:12:10","slug":"new-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mini-med\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini-Medical School"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Welcome to Mini-Medical School!\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><i>Adventures in Medical Education for a Healthy Community!<\/i><\/h3>\n<div class='content-column one_half'><div style=\"padding-right:20px;\"><p>Do you want to learn how doctors think and try your hand at diagnostic reasoning? Visit a medical research lab where scientists are finding new ways to improve health? Listen to a patient talk about how a chronic disease affects\u00a0one&#8217;s life? Learn about cholesterol at the molecular and clinical level? Consider new approaches to treating cancer and advances in pediatric oncology (cancer)? Try your hand at making difficult health policy decisions?<\/p>\n<p>You can do all of these things during <strong>Mini-Medical School<\/strong>, presented by the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/\">University of Virginia\u2019s School of Medicine<\/a><\/strong>. Community members are welcome to join us in the state-of-the-art Claude Moore Medical Education Building for this enriching program. One Mini-Medical alum describes the program as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The most interesting and best organized educational experience I\u2019ve ever had.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Enthusiastic and engaging faculty members from the School of Medicine will lecture and answer questions on topics such as\u00a0anatomy, diabetes, hypertension, medical research, and more. Tuition is <strong>free<\/strong>, there are <strong>no exams<\/strong>, and participants receive a certificate of attendance.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in applying, please visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mini-med\/welcome-to-mini-med-school\/apply-to-mini-med\/\">Application Information Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For your health and enjoyment, please consider Mini-Medical School!<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<div class='content-column one_half last_column'>\n\n<div id=\"gslideshow\" class=\"gss-container\">\n\t<div class=\"cycle-slideshow\" \n\t\tdata-cycle-paused=\"false\"\n\t\tdata-cycle-timeout=\"4000\"\n\t\tdata-cycle-speed=\"1000\"\n\t\tdata-cycle-slides=\"> a\"\n\t\tdata-cycle-prev=\"#gslideshow_prev\"\n\t\tdata-cycle-next=\"#gslideshow_next\"\n\t\tdata-cycle-pager=\"#gslideshow_pager\"\n\t\tdata-cycle-pager-template=\"<a href=#>&nbsp;<\/a>\"\n\t\tdata-cycle-caption=\"#gslideshow_captions\"\n\t\tdata-cycle-caption-template=\"{{cycleCaption}}\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div id=\"gslideshow_pager\" class=\"gss-pager\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"no-link\" data-cycle-caption=\"Mini-Medical School participants try their hands at administering pediatric lumbar punctures.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mini-med\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2018\/04\/week-2-22-e1525869353700.jpg\" title=\"week 2 (22)\" alt=\"week 2 (22)\" \/><\/a>\n\n\t\t\t<a class=\"no-link\" data-cycle-caption=\"A Mini-Medical School participant practices the cranial nerve exam on a medical student volunteer.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mini-med\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2018\/04\/week-4-16-e1525869244436.jpg\" title=\"week 4 (16)\" alt=\"week 4 (16)\" \/><\/a>\n\n\t\t\t<a class=\"no-link\" data-cycle-caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mini-med\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2018\/04\/week-1-10-e1527173654346.jpg\" title=\"week 1 (10)\" alt=\"week 1 (10)\" \/><\/a>\n\n\t\t\t<a class=\"no-link\" data-cycle-caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\n\t\t\t<a class=\"no-link\" data-cycle-caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\n\t\t\t<a class=\"no-link\" data-cycle-caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\n\t\t\t<a class=\"no-link\" data-cycle-caption=\"Mini-Medical School participants engaging in a blood pressure activity, led by a medical student volunteer.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mini-med\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2018\/05\/week-1-1-e1527011039465.jpg\" title=\"week 1 (1)\" alt=\"week 1 (1)\" \/><\/a>\n\n\t\t\t<a class=\"no-link\" data-cycle-caption=\"The Claude Moore Medical Education Building, where Mini-Medical School happens.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mini-med\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2015\/07\/UVA065_ppt-e1527173826235.jpg\" title=\"UVA065_ppt\" alt=\"UVA065_ppt\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"gss-info\">\n\t\t<div class=\"gss-nav\"><div id=\"gslideshow_prev\" class=\"gss-prev\">&lt;<\/div><div id=\"gslideshow_play\" class=\"gss-play\">&#9658;<\/div><div id=\"gslideshow_next\" class=\"gss-next\">&gt;<\/div><\/div><div class=\"gss-long-cap\">Mini-Medical School participants engaging in a blood pressure activity, led by a medical student volunteer.<\/div><div id=\"gslideshow_captions\" class=\"gss-captions\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 463px;margin: 1em;float: right;color: #c93;border-left-width: 4px;border-left-style: solid;border-left-color: #8CACBB;padding-left: 1em;clear: both\">\n<h3><strong>Mini-Medical School 2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>7 Consecutive Wednesday evenings in the fall, September \u2013 October (Dates TBA)<\/li>\n<li>6:30 p.m. &#8211; 9:00 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Claude Moore Medical Education Building<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class='clear_column'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Mini-Medical School!\u00a0 Adventures in Medical Education for a Healthy Community!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":796,"featured_media":723,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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