On a recent Monday night, students dressed in teal scrubs, made their way into the Hammons Medical Building on the main Mercy campus in Springfield. As they settled in with snacks, health care workers with the labor and delivery team at Mercy used a quiz game to teach them about what they do.
Medical Explorers is offered locally at both Mercy Springfield and CoxHealth for anyone 14 to 20-years-old.
One of the students in the room was 18-year-old Isabella Benson, a senior at Republic High School. She spotted a sign for the Mercy Medical Explorers program in math class and immediately knew she wanted to apply. She’d wanted to be a doctor since she was eight and broke her arm. She’s in the first cohort since the program was halted during the pandemic. It started back up in January…