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Abstract：
Community outreach is an established method for organizations to interact with the community. It is often done to help improve the community and its members by providing resources and educational opportunities. A growing crisis facing the United States of America is a worsening physician shortage, which will negatively impact many across the nation, especially vulnerable communities. The Student-to-Student organization offers a novel approach to community outreach by helping introduce and inspire high school students and young adults to pursue medicine. The organization is run by medical students and supervised by the College of Medicine faculty. It offers students from local high schools, community colleges, and undergraduate universities the opportunity to visit the medical college, where they can explore human anatomy and discuss the different facets of medicine and medical education with current medical students. This experience provides medical students with the ability to refine their public speaking abilities, gain leadership experience, improve their professional identity, and be involved in meaningful community outreach. These attributes also serve to enhance medical student residency applications at a time when uncertainties abound in the aftermath of Step One becoming pass/fail. The organization has run continuously since 1987 (except for one year during the COVID-19 pandemic). It has evolved over the years to become a high-performing organization that provides more than 80 tours yearly to thousands of students from the surrounding communities. This article aims to provide a detailed description of the history, organization, and impact of the Student-to-Student organization so that other medical students have a framework for implementing a similar program at their institution.
摘要：
社区外展是组织与社区互动的既定方法。通常通过提供资源和教育机会来帮助改善社区及其成员。美利坚合众国面临的一个日益严重的危机是日益恶化的医生短缺，这将对全国许多人产生负面影响，特别是脆弱的社区。学生对学生组织通过帮助介绍和激励高中生和年轻人追求医学，为社区外展提供了一种新颖的方法。该组织由医学生管理，并由医学院教师监督。它提供当地高中的学生，社区学院,和本科大学有机会参观医学院，他们可以探索人体解剖学，并与当前的医学生讨论医学和医学教育的不同方面。这种经历为医学生提供了提高公开演讲能力的能力，获得领导经验，提高他们的职业认同感，并参与有意义的社区外展活动。这些属性还有助于在第一步变得通过/失败后不确定性比比皆是的时候增强医学生的住院医师申请。该组织自1987年以来一直持续运作(除了COVID-19大流行期间的一年)。多年来，它已经发展成为一个高性能的组织，每年为来自周围社区的数千名学生提供80多个旅游。这篇文章旨在提供一个详细的历史描述,组织,以及学生对学生组织的影响，以便其他医学生有一个在其机构实施类似计划的框架。
