Future Physicians America

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Future Physicians America (FPA) offers summer programs for rising 4th through 12th graders to inspire future medical professionals. Younger students explore medicine through Mini Medical School, while high schoolers gain hands-on clinical skills and publish medical research. It’s an incredible opportunity for aspiring doctors, especially those pursuing combined BS/BA-MD programs.

Future Physicians America (FPA) programs are geared towards high schoolers interested in pursuing medicine. What sets us apart is that students get tangible things they can list on their resume, such as AHA, ASA, and ACScertifications, and a first-hand immersion experience of what medicine is like. This is important because especially BS MD programs want to know why one wants to go into medicine, what type of knowledge/experiences they have had to be able to make that decision while still a teenager. Unlike other programs, FPA programs are taught by board-certified practicing physicians who are also medical school faculty and bring over 45 years of collective teaching experience. We are also independent (not owned by venture capitalists like many other pre-med summer camps), and thus can afford to be selective. 

Our high school students have the opportunity to publish their work as first authors in PubMed-indexed journals, and present their clinical research at national medical meetings. Students who take the clinical research course have presented their work at the American Academy of Neurology, Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, American Society of Plastic Surgery, American Academy of Dermatology, American Medical Association, and the UCF Research Symposium. 

Our students have published their work in: Archives of Dermatologic Research, Orthopedic Reviews, JACEP, HealthPsychology Research, International Journal of Emergency Medicine, Case Reports in Neurology, BMC Psychology, Journal of the National Medical Association, and the New England Journal of Medicine, to name a few.

Our FPA alumni have gone to places such as the Brown PLME (every year), University of Central Florida Burnett Medical Scholars program, Virginia Commonwealth University Guaranteed Admission Program, University of Pittsburgh BS MD Guaranteed Admissions Program, Drexel BA/BS+MD Early Assurance program, Albany Medical College/Union College Leadership in Medicine Program, Boston University 7-Year Liberal Arts/Medical Education Program, Augusta University/Medical College of Georgia 3/4 BS-MD Program, Florida Atlantic BSMD, RochesterREMS, Mercer BSMD, and others.

Housing is available on the University of Central Florida campus.