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Maybe you have chosen to go to law school or enter the business world. Perhaps you just overslept and missed chemistry class or played too much Frisbee on the quad. For whatever reason, like most people, you didn’t go to medical school. Still think you’ve got what it takes? In 1997, Harry Sultz, DDS, MPH, Professor and Dean Emeritus and Alan M. Reynard, PhD, Professor, Pharmacology & Toxicology of the University at Buffalo began a mini-medical school for people without a medical background. They wondered whether anyone would show up. Show up they did, and in droves. Many people have wanted to check out what medical school is like without having to do the hard studying.

As usual, participants won’t graduate with a license to practice, but they will become immersed in medical science and do it in the company of some of the leading physicians and researchers in Buffalo. The mini-medical school is set up just like real medical schools, with each lecture corresponding to an entire medical school course.

Enrollment in the Mini-Medical School is limited to the first 300 registrants. All the lectures take place from 7 to 9 pm in Farber Hall, Butler Auditorium on the Main Street campus. Recommend reading and reference materials are provided.

 



UB’s Mini Medical School Spring Program will feature:
CANCER: Miracles and Myths

May 5

Lymphoproliferative Diseases: The Good News About Bad Blood
Zale Bernstein, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine

Prostate Cancer
James L. Mohler, MD
Professor, Oncology

May 12

Nutrition And Cancer: Delicious Clues or Why Can’t We Figure This Out!
James R. Marshall, PhD
Professor, Medicine

Breast Cancer
Swati Kulkarni, MD
Assistant Professor, Surgery

May 19

The Genetics Of Cancer
Mark O’Brian, PhD
Professor and Chair, Psychiatry

Views From The Colonscope
Thomas Mahl, MD
Associate Professor, Neurosurgery & Radiology

May 26

Palliative Care: Focusing On Life

Amy McDonald, MD
Palliative Medicine Fellowship Director

Jack P. Freer, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine
Division Chief, Palliative Care Medicine

Advances In Pain Management Techniques
Mark J. Lema, MD
Professor and Chair, Anesthesiology

Register online: www.smbs.buffalo.edu/minimed
or call 829-2196.

Entrance fee for all four sessions $30
Sponsored by the late Esther and Don Davis.
A Community Service Program of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The Sate University of New York

Mini-Veterinary School 2009

October 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29

Entrance fee for all five sessions (full series) $50
Senior or Student (full series) $40
$20 per session

http://www.nfvsonline.org/

To register online for Mini-Medical or Mini-Veterinary School, visit http://apps.med.buffalo.edu/minimed/
MMS High School Science Enrichment Program: October 7, 14, 21, 28, 2009