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Interns
Gain Insight In Medical Careers
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Yan Lin Lye and Leslie Green, seniors at Kinkaid and
Stehlin interns.
Every year, seniors at Kinkaid High School eagerly
anticipate the interim term, a three-week “real world”
experience when students explore their interests and passions.
Many opt to travel to China, Spain and France, while others
take on
internships all over the country in pursuit of self-discovery.
With decisions of colleges and careers quickly approaching,
Leslie Green and Yan Lin Lye, two outstanding seniors, chose
the Stehlin Foundation, hoping to receive a more in-depth
look at a career in medicine.
“The Stehlin Foundation does a wonderful job peaking
the students’ interest and exposing them to the upper
echelons of research and medicine,” said Judy Muir,
director of the career development program at Kinkaid. “These
internships are a time
of self-discovery for the students. The student’s
interest level drives the depths of their internship and
insight into the industry. The Stehlin Foundation provides
students with
invaluable hands-on experience on the front lines of cancer
research and treatment.”
These two girls have accompanied Dr. Peter de Ipolyi and
Dr. Jamie Tschen on patient visits and observed and participated
in various treatments and counseling. The interns also are
exposed to Stehlin’s famous and unique patient-care
principle, which
emphasizes treating the patient, not the cancer. A large
aspect of the internship requires the students to assist
in the research and testing of human cancers and help with
the development of new anti-cancer drugs.
“I’ve enjoyed working with everyone in all the
different departments at Stehlin,” said Lye. “I’ve
been able to assist with human cancer research in the lab
as well as stand at a patient’s bedside during treatment
sessions and see the attention each
patient requires. This has truly been a rewarding experience,
seeing the impact my research has on the patients’
lives.”
Green said, “One of my favorite things about this
internship program was the emphasis they put on education.
Assisting in research with Constantine and Tony and working
in the organic chemistry lab has enabled me to learn so
much more than I could at any other internship.”
Both Green and Lye will graduate from Kinkaid this coming
May. Green, 18 years old, hopes to attend either The University
of Texas or Texas A&M University, majoring in biology
or business. Lye, 19 years old, already has decided on a
career in biomedical
engineering and is waiting on acceptance from several out-of-state
universities.
For more than 23 years, the Stehlin Foundation’s award-winning
Educational Scholarship Program has been expanding the young
minds of more than 250 high school and college students
in the field of medicine. This internship experience has
encouraged many of the intern alumni to enter medical or
graduate school to become
doctors or researchers.
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