Student doctors at Sam Houston State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine have a passion for not just practicing medicine but teaching it as well. One such student did that by establishing the “You Can D.O. Medicine” camp, which is going on its second year of showing high school students that pursuing medicine is within their reach.
While in class last year, Darian Dozier’s professor asked for outreach ideas utilizing recently awarded grant funding. Dozier is an avid blogger with the goal of turning her blog into a nonprofit for assisting prospective medical students. With this in mind, she proposed a summer camp for local high school students to learn about osteopathic medicine.
After Dozier’s professor accepted her proposal, she got to work and recruited other student doctors like Parisa Jesudasen, a first-year medical student at the time. With Jesudasen as her assistant director and group of six excited classmates serving as counselors, Dozier organized a successful camp.
