Welcome to Camp Pathological!

The overall goal of Camp Pathological is to increase students’ understanding of clinical research, healthy life choices, and their future role in community health — while introducing them to a university research hospital. This will be accomplished by providing them with hands-on and scenario based curricular materials focusing on clinical study, research, and clinical trials.
The curriculum will focus on the healthy reproductive body, its pathological condition, its diagnostic research, and treatment. Camp Pathological will provide information that will begin students’ participation in medical research and trials. Our student target comes from an economically challenged background attending the Kansas City, Kansas Public High Schools.

Key Objectives
Camp Pathological will utilize the subjects of pregnancy loss and infant mortality in order to educate students about the importance of clinical research in treatment development, the available careers in clinical research, and the affect clinical research has on people’s lives.

• Students will be able to identify parts in the healthy anatomy of the male and female reproductive systems, and relate this anatomy to the role hormones play in these same systems.
• Students will be able to analyze and make conclusions about how life choices affect the healthy body and to recognize clinical indicators used to monitor the health of the body.
• Students will understand the primary causes of pregnancy loss and infant mortality in the U.S. and around the world. Through literature review and analysis, students will identify modes of action that could be relayed to the community to combat these losses.
• Students will be able to interpret medical case studies pertaining to reproductive health, pregnancy loss, and infant mortality, and be able to synthesize a viable diagnosis.
• Students will be able to research a medical topic and present their findings using relevant methods and up-to-date technology.
• Students will have an understanding of medical and clinical research careers, the amount of schooling needed to obtain those careers, and the need for minority participation in these careers.