{"id":2318,"date":"2019-12-29T23:20:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T23:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/littlemedsch.wpengine.com\/midsouth\/the-story-of-lms\/"},"modified":"2021-09-08T17:44:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T17:44:20","slug":"the-story-of-lms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/littlemedicalschool.com\/midsouth\/the-story-of-lms\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Little Medical School"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\n\t\tInspiring health awareness through education\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>Story by Dr. Mary Mason, MD, MBA<\/p>\n\t<iframe allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r9G1wbgcG5c?feature=oembed&amp;start&amp;end&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;loop=0&amp;controls=1&amp;mute=0&amp;rel=0&amp;modestbranding=0\"><\/iframe>\t\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/littlemedicalschool.com\/locationtemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/12\/maryandhermom.jpg\" alt=\"maryandhermom\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"557\" width=\"820\" title=\"maryandhermom\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n<h2>\n\t\t1996\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>Here, Genie and Mary are at Washington University, and Mary is a a 4th year medical student.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/littlemedicalschool.com\/locationtemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/12\/18-wib-np-chair-mason-e1544038127438.jpg\" alt=\"18-wib-np-chair-mason-e1544038127438\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1014\" width=\"840\" title=\"18-wib-np-chair-mason-e1544038127438\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n<h2>\n\t\t2015\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>Dr. Mary Mason, MD, MBA started franchising Little Medical School<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/littlemedicalschool.com\/locationtemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/12\/fullsizeoutput_209-e1565724238299-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"fullsizeoutput_209-e1565724238299\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"2048\" width=\"1791\" title=\"fullsizeoutput_209-e1565724238299\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n<h2>\n\t\t2018\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>A Little Medical School student learning about being a pediatrician<\/p>\n<h2>\n\t\tI am a doctor\u2019s kid.\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>My mother was one of four women in her medical school class in 1954. She loved being a physician and did everything she could to get me, my siblings, our cousins, and friends to pursue a career in medicine. As a 6-year-old, I couldn\u2019t wait for her to get home from her office. She would bring me tongue depressors, gauze pads, bandages for my \u201cdoctor\u2019s office\u201d in our playroom. I had a little white coat, stethoscope, and an old-fashion black doctor\u2019s bag\u2026 and I felt like a real doctor. At Thanksgiving, we would \u201csuture\u201d the stuffed turkey. As I got older, I learn how to give an injection to an orange. I had no doubt in my mind that medicine was an achievable career path for me, even when adults thoughtlessly reminded me how many years I would have to go to school, or how hard it would be.<\/p>\n<p>It was only later, as a first-year medical student, did I realize how powerful those early experiences were in shaping my conviction to pursue a career in medicine.<\/p>\n<p>In 1998, I was a chief resident in Internal Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, and I decided to recreate my childhood experiences and wrote the first Little Medical School. I recruited fellow residents and medical students to help me teach. Our first class attended by 13-year-olds surprised me. They were acting silly and were not embracing the experience as I had hope. I went home and gathered up a basketful of white coats and stethoscopes and brought them to the second class and made the students put them on.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in a white coat with a stethoscope around their neck, the students were engaged, attentive, and having so much fun, they didn\u2019t realize how much they were learning. That was the \u201cAh-HA\u201d moment. the power of role-play and this has been a key pillar of all Little Medical School programs.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to inspiring children to see themselves in healthcare careers, we teach real-life skills. Students learn what to do in there is a medical emergency, how to use a first aid kit, and how to prevent hypothermia. We also stress the importance of a health care professional being a role model. That means taking care of yourself\u2026 eating right, exercising, getting your immunizations and flu shot, and not smoking.<\/p>\n<p>We are dedicated and believe in our mission of inspiring and shaping tomorrow\u2019s healthcare professionals today through our numerous after-school programs, summer camps, birthday parties, special programs and our award-winning line of educational toys. My greatest hope is that future medical, nursing, veterinarian, and pharmacy school classes will be filled with Little Medical School graduates!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspiring health awareness through education Story by Dr. Mary Mason, MD, MBA 1996 Here, Genie and Mary are at Washington University, and Mary is a a 4th year medical student.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2318","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlemedicalschool.com\/midsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlemedicalschool.com\/midsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlemedicalschool.com\/midsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlemedicalschool.com\/midsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlemedicalschool.com\/midsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/littlemedicalschool.com\/midsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlemedicalschool.com\/midsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}