Dallas ISD gives young, future medics hands-on experience with tools used by actual doctors [Video]

DALLAS – Dallas ISD is giving students an immersive experience with STEM instruction.

Their biomedical school is three years old, and Dallas ISD is expanding its campus next year.

Students get to work with simulators that actual doctors use to improve their skills.

Students at Dallas ISD’s Biomedical Preparatory School work hand in hand with UT Southwestern doctors.

Dr. Chuck Ginsburg proposed the idea to the district. The school started three years ago, and students visit the UT Southwestern Simulation Center each semester.

“The group today is the oldest group,” he said. “They started as preschoolers and are now in the third grade.”

In class this week, students created human skin and wounds to learn how to do first aid on a playground injury.

They also got to control a laparoscopic surgery simulator.

Gina Maffucci is the principal.

“It brings it to life and helps students have this one-of-a-kind experience that you wouldn’t get …