High School Students from Underrepresented Backgrounds Participate in ‘Make an Impact with the Law and Medicine Day Program’ at Nova Southeastern University

The program is also designed to empower students to recognize health disparities and to think of ways of addressing legal and medical hurdles through interdisciplinary collaboration. The high school students came from four South Florida high schools: Somerset North Lauderdale, Somerset Miramar, Mater High Hialeah Gardens, and Pinecrest Glades.

The Dec. 11 event included sessions facilitated by leaders and faculty members from Nova Southeastern University’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine and Shepard Broad College of Law administrators, professors, staff and students.  Students participated in a negotiations lab, a condensed problem-based learning (PBL) case designed to analyze and diagnose a hypothetical patient’s condition; interdisciplinary health disparities brainstorming sessions, and speed networking with medical and law school student leaders and faculty.