{"id":1555,"date":"2022-08-05T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2025-01-20T15:48:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T15:48:37","slug":"uf-college-of-medicine-helps-pace-girls-explore-careers-in-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/uf-college-of-medicine-helps-pace-girls-explore-careers-in-health-care","title":{"rendered":"UF College of Medicine Helps Pace Girls Explore Careers in Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/locations\/florida\/alachua\">Pace Alachua<\/a>&nbsp;girls took a field trip to the UF College of Medicine July 26. The event, hosted by the college\u2019s Women in Medicine and Science advisory board and Office of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development, along with the Medi-Gators Virtual Shadowing Program run through the department of neurology, was designed to inspire the next generation of female physicians and scientists, showing them the breadth of opportunities in health care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La\u2019nya, a 14-year-old Pace girl, peered into the mouth of a mannequin and inserted an intubation tube. Across the room, Don\u2019nyia examined her own cells beneath a microscope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI hope they get to see how many different career paths there are in medicine,\u201d said Stacy Beal, M.D. \u201909, chair of the advisory board for Women in Medicine and Science. \u201cThey can see that, as a woman, their opportunities are endless.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Undergraduate and gap-year volunteers from Medi-Gators organized 18 tables, each with hands-on activities that offered the girls a taste of the medical field. Alyson Moriarty, director of Medi-Gators, announced when it was time to rotate, playing a heartbeat sound over the speaker. With each rotation, the girls explored cardiology, urology, pathology and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI hope this event motivates them,\u201d Moriarty said. \u201cA lot of the girls might not have doctors or health care professionals in their families, but that doesn\u2019t mean it isn\u2019t possible for them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/news.drgator.ufl.edu\/2022\/08\/03\/college-of-medicine-helps-local-girls-explore-careers-in-health-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Source<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pace Alachua girls took a field trip to the UF College of Medicine July 26. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"post_tag":[57],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-pace-alachua"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_tag?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}