{"id":1986,"date":"2019-12-30T15:52:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T15:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/littlemedsch.wpengine.com\/houston\/the-story-of-lms\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T14:07:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T14:07:45","slug":"the-story-of-lms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/littlemedicalschool.com\/nashville\/the-story-of-lms\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Little Medical School"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\r\n\t\tInspiring health awareness through education\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n\t<p>Story by Dr. Mary Mason, MD, MBA<\/p>\r\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\r\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'\"  \/>\r\n<h2>\r\n\t\t1996\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n\t<p>Here, Genie and Mary are at Washington University, and Mary is a a 4th year medical student.<\/p>\r\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'\"  \/>\r\n<h2>\r\n\t\t2015\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n\t<p>Dr. Mary Mason, MD, MBA started franchising LMS<\/p>\r\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'\"  \/>\r\n<h2>\r\n\t\t2018\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n\t<p>LMS students learning about being a pediatrician<\/p>\r\n<h2>\r\n\t\tI am a doctor\u2019s kid.\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\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 how many years I would have to go to school, or how hard it would be. 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>\r\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 stethoscope and brought them to the second class and made the students but them on. 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>\r\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 preventive 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>\r\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>\r\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. 2015 Dr. Mary Mason, MD, MBA started franchising LMS 2018 LMS students learning about being a pediatrician I am a doctor\u2019s kid. 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