Project Presentation Outline

 
Purpose: Through this project I aim to…
 
1.     Provide a website that consolidates premedical requirements and advice
2.     Provide a website that directs students interested in certain fields of medicine to accessible sources of information for those fields
3.     Encourage other premedical students to get engaged with changing developments in their prospective medical careers
4.     Get premedical students thinking about how medicine as a field is changing
 
Target Audience: United States premedical students or people interested in learning about medicine
 
Motivation

 1.      Personal need to explore medicine in breadth and develop a system for accessing information
 2.     Desire to connect premedical resources to updated information about different medical careers
 
Content

Figure out what kind of doctor you want to be

Career paths   

1. List medical specialties 
1. Surgical 
2. Internal Medicine 
3. Diagnostic Specialties
4. Neurology 
2. List interdisciplinary fields 
3. Typical work schedules, pros, and cons for each field (Show examples) 
4. Each field connected to external resources for more information (Show examples)  

Future scope-the importance of recognizing areas most volatile to change in deciding your career path

1. Healthcare
1. Current problems
1. Rising costs, number of uninsured, disincentives for preventative measures
2. Possible solutions
1. Better use of electronic information in treatment, provide incentives for preventative measures, XXXXXX
3. Job opportunities
1. Health informatics, XXXXX
2. Human Genome Project
1. Explanation of project completed in 2003
2. Pharmacogenomics and gene-specified treatment
3.  Stem Cell Research
1. Regenerative medicine possibilities 

Design an education path that matches your interests

Undergraduate

1. General course requirements
1. Majoring in things other than biology or chemistry to fit your interests
2. Extracurricular opportunities
1. Finding research opportunities
2. Summer opportunities
3. Finding scholarships
4. Community service ideas
3. Preparing for medical school
1. Choosing a medical school
2. General timeline for application process
3. Practice MCAT testing, mock interviews

Post-undergraduate

1. Alternative paths
1. Opportunities for "taking a year off" experiences
2. Potential degrees to aim for depending on career interests
1. MD, PhD, MBA

 
Sustainability

1. Quicker access to information
1. Need to find a way to facilitate exchange of information amongst premeds searching for advice 
2.  Guide audience to desired locations    
1. There will be a lot of information, so I will need to find some way to focus resources to specific interests sooner
2. "What kind of doctor are you" surveys
3.  Updating information
1. Medical news related to different fields and future scope section will need to be updated on a reasonable basis
2. Feature can be integrated so viewers can add news, links to other resources as they see fit