CampMed

CampMed at UCI was founded in 1997 by UC Irvine undergraduate and medical students and has reached out to over 740 high school students from Orange and Los Angeles Counties. The program targets high school students who demonstrate academic promise, and who are interested in pursuing health and science careers, but do not have the resources to develop their potential. CampMed strives to demonstrate to these students that they are smart, capable, and have the ability to succeed academically. The camp is designed to expose students to the various health science professions, provide them with information regarding higher education in the health sciences, build their self-esteem, provide a network of like-minded students for motivation, provide them with a health science mentor following the camp, and assist them in developing basic medical skills.

Every year numerous LMSA medical students, postbaccalaureate and undergraduate students serve as counselors or volunteers during CampMed. LMSA also provides two $500 dollar scholarships to two CampMed high school campers during the weekend event. The Super Mario scholarship is named after a former LMSA UCI member who co-founded CampMed and various other community service programs at UCI.

www.CampMed.org