Students visit the Campbell Med School for Hump Day 2025 – News

On February 22, dozens of students from high schools that represented several counties in East North Carolina visited Campbell University.

The students were there, at Hump Day 2025, to learn and understand medicine to explore their opportunities.

For the world, its community. For themselves.

This Saturday the students filled the halls, classrooms and simulation laboratories of the Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine (Cusom). Learning for medical students and faculties through demonstrations, practical and interactive experiences.

Hump ​​Day – which helps the understanding of medical employment – is an annual event and part of an initiative under the large roof of the student National Medical Association (SNMA).

The SNMA student chapter in Campbell led the efforts on Saturday, as has been done for around 10 years.

The mission of Campbell's Medical Faculty is used for undersupply. Training of doctors to take care of these rural communities and ultimately live and work and work there, all over North Carolina and in the southeast of the USA

The mission for the SNMA chapter in Campbell is the diversification of medicine, and this day corresponds to this mission, says Tamera Huthinson from North Brunswick, New Jersey, a medical student in Campbell in the second year who took the event with a leadership.

“We lead you through a day in the life of a medical student,” she said.

Campbell students who represent countless medical clubs on campus and the faculty led the teenagers on a frequent and interactive tour, which consisted of simulated medical methods, techniques and learning modules that have been woven throughout the entire medical school.

The students learned, for example, through emergency medicine and applied tourniquets on ultrasound images and received a better understanding of the subtleties and miracles of birth.

The event is a real welcome to the expansive and fascinating world of medicine. For many, it is an introduction to Campbell, its osteopathic medical faculty and the diverse area of ​​health sciences.

Asia Hilliard from Mocksville is also a medical student and SNMA club member in Campbell. Hilliard said that the club endeavors to encourage Cusom students who grew up in local NC communities to volunteer at the event of the Hump Day.

“This is a wonderful resource for this community. Even if you come from a small town, you can do what you want, ”said Hillard about the medical school and the possibilities that it offers.

As is examined, the former students are exposed to careers in medicine, the more likely it is that they will pursue a career in medicine, said Dr. Tiffany Lowe Clayton, assistant professor, Department of Family Medicine and Director of Clinical Location Engagement and Development Clinic Affairs.

“The Student National Medical Association really tried to open a pipeline,” said Lowe Clayton.

Cusom was instrumental in granting SNMA access to this gateway and at the beginning of her academic career at the beginning of her academic career in a potential career in medical and health sciences, she said.

“The students come from several counties, they come from communities that are historically underrepresented. And it is really able to help them come to Campbell … to have the opportunity to speak to everyone – from medical students to doctors to admission consultants. “

Learn and discover.

“It is Campbell's mission to serve the rural and under -provisioned communities,” said Lowe Clayton. “So if we can get students from these rural communities to come here and become exposed, and hopefully one day some of them will come to the medical faculty, and some of them will then return to their communities.”