Photos: Mini Medical School 2015
November 19, 2015
![Tarin A. Schmidt-Dalton, MD (right) of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine talks to participants of the 2015 Mini Medical School.](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/news/2015/20151119/_jcr_content/article-image.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
![Educators at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine demonstrate a trauma situation](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/news/2015/20151119/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_1390855108/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
![David Trinkle, MD, of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine talks to participants of the 2015 Mini Medical School.](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/news/2015/20151119/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_1390855108/vt-items_1/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
Drawing Back The Curtain: How Medical Students Learn to be Doctors was the focus of the 2015 Mini Medical School at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. The four-evening event gave the public, future doctors, and others a glimpse into what it takes to become a physician.
![A student practices using a stethoscope on a practice patient.](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/news/2015/20151119/_jcr_content/content/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
![Educators at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine demonstrate a trauma situation on a fake patient](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/news/2015/20151119/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
![Amber Diaz-Keith of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine creates a "wound" with makeup (in a process called moulage) during the 2015 mini medical school.](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/news/2015/20151119/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn/vt-items_1/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
Participants learned about the school’s innovative problem-based curriculum, trying out some basic clinical skills and diagnostics, exploring the concept of translational research, and witnessing a clinical simulation involving a team of health care professionals.
![A standardized patient discusses his illness](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/news/2015/20151119/_jcr_content/content/adaptiveimage_917977180.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
![Practice stethoscopes used at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine during the 2015 Mini Medical School](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/news/2015/20151119/_jcr_content/content/adaptiveimage_268096954.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)