UC Irvine’s Elite
Summer Surgery Program
Innovators, and Leaders for Life’s Challenges
About Us
UC Irvine’s Summer Surgery Program was established in 2012 and has continued to evolve into one of the most premier medical based high school summer programs offered. Since the program’s inception, the team has worked with feedback from our summer surgeons to continually innovate and improve the program.
The Summer Surgery Program inspires and empowers highly motivated, high-performing high school students to pursue their interest in medicine or related fields via intense real-life exposure to the world of surgery.
Throughout the entire program summer surgeons regularly interact with team members representing all levels of training to assure they fully understand entire process of becoming a surgeon.
Summer Surgeons In Our Program Will:
News Coverage of Our Summer Surgery Program
Your surgeon of tomorrow could be a high school student today.
Twenty-four students with an interest in medicine are going through a two-week Summer Surgery Program at UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange. The program…brings in students to learn and practice surgical skills such as…
the creator and chief supervisor of the summer surgery program at UC Irvine Medical Center. (Spencer Grant)
It’s quiet in the basement of the UC Irvine Medical Center.
The youngest residents of the research hospital in Orange are hard at work on a Monday afternoon. A machine maneuvers thread through small, metal loops. Sutures are carefully made and tied into soft tissue and steady hands stealthily draw “kidney stones”…
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