{"id":28588,"date":"2014-03-12T08:54:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T12:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=28588"},"modified":"2014-03-12T08:54:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T12:54:33","slug":"wright-state-horizons-in-medicine-program-helps-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/03\/12\/wright-state-horizons-in-medicine-program-helps-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State Horizons in Medicine program helps students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/05\/25\/noted-author-samuel-shem-to-deliver-commencement-address-at-the-wright-state-university-boonshoft-school-of-medicine\/bsom_logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5107\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5107\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/05\/BSOM_logo-260x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When she was 4, Huber Heights resident Alayah Keys was diagnosed with Wilms\u2019 tumor, a children\u2019s kidney cancer. She considers her doctors heroes, and decided then that she wanted to be a pediatrician. Her participation in the Horizons in Medicine program at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine last summer resulted in a four-year scholarship to WSU, where she will begin classes for a pre-med program in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to go through chemo and radiation, and knew my doctors had saved me,\u201d recalls the Wayne High School senior. \u201cI wanted to do the same thing for other children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When she learned about Horizons in Medicine, a six-week summer program for local high school juniors, she applied. \u201cThere were many aspects of the application process to complete, and it took about a month, but was worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to morning classes at WSU, participants spend their afternoons in a clinical setting.<\/p>\n<p>Read the story from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/lifestyles\/wsu-horizons-in-medicine-program-helps-students\/nd69L\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dayton Daily News<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt When she was 4, Huber Heights resident Alayah Keys was diagnosed with Wilms\u2019 tumor, a children\u2019s kidney cancer. She considers her doctors heroes, and decided then that she wanted to be a pediatrician. Her participation in the Horizons in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/03\/12\/wright-state-horizons-in-medicine-program-helps-students\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":5107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2016,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28591,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28588\/revisions\/28591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}