Drilling into a model of a skull: a ‘cool’ taste of doctoring for Philly high schoolers

Promise Lamons used a scalpel to cut into a model of a human head on Thursday, hesitating slightly as she pierced its rubbery, fleshlike exterior. The 15-year-old then switched to a drill to make a hole in the “skull” beneath.

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She was among a dozen students from West Philadelphia public schools who got a crash course in neurosurgery Thursday at Penn Medicine University City, a high-rise outpatient facility on Market Street. The event was part of a summer-long “Pipeline Plus” program designed to teach students about careers in the health sciences, run by Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships.

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