The National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine (NYLF/MED) introduces outstanding high school students to the world of medicine. This program familiarizes students with the various professions available in the medical field. With close cooperation from the nation’s most prestigious and technologically-advanced hospitals, research facilities and medical schools, students attending the Forum on Medicine are challenged and motivated as they focus on a broad range of topics, including educational requirements, career options, clinical practice and complex ethical and legal issues facing the medical profession today.

Students discover medical specialties and primary care with current physicians and patients, explore what life will be like as a resident, and discuss responses to epidemics and threats to public health.