Description

Have your high school students, nursing/pre-med students and pre-service educators explore the Immune System through this interactive multimedia videoconference presentation!

Designed by St. Joseph's Medical Center emergency room doctor Phillip Silverstein, the “Inner World Discovery” program is a multimedia journey through the human body. With Dr. Silverstein as their guide, students participating in this session will experience the wonder, intricacies and elegance of the human body’s immune system. This interactive videoconference presentation with Dr. Silverstein will make the complexities of understanding the immune system accessible to students, and will make real the devastating effects of HIV. The program, a curricular supplement, is scaled and adapated for for each target audience.

We encourage students to generate questions about the immune system, HIV and/or AIDS before participating in this videoconference.

2008 Dates

Grades 9-12
March 7, 2008 (10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. ET)


May 16, 2008 (10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. ET)

Nursing Students/Pre-Med Students
February 8, 2008 (10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. ET)


Pre-Service Health/Science Educators
April 18, 2008 (10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. ET)

Videoconference Outline

About Dr. Silverstein

Phillip Silverstein, M.D. is the creator and producer of Inner World Discovery ©, an educational program that teaches students about the human body and current health concerns using animation and real life emergency room stories.

Inner World Discovery addresses the challenge of J. Edward Hill M.D., President of the American Medical Association: "Physicians are responsible for taking the lead in preventing disease by capturing the attention and interest of young people early on in their lives." - Best Form of Health Education in Schools, American Medical News (January 6, 2003).

Dr. Silverstein was in private practice and practiced internal medicine in Delaware County for 15 years. During that time he won numerous awards that honored him as the best teaching physician at Delaware County Memorial Hospital . He is presently a full time emergency physician at St. Joseph ’s Medical Center in Reading , PA. and managing partner with Berks Emergency Physicians, LLC.

He continues his role as educator to family practice residents as well as to students in middle school, high school and college. He recently was awarded “Best Teaching Physician” for the family practice residency program at St. Joseph ’s Medical Center , Reading , PA.

Resources

Student Preparation Packet: A glossary of terms and multimedia presentation characters that will be helpful for students. Participating teachers should review this material with students ahead of time to help introduce the concept of the Immune System and/or HIV.

Inner World Discovery Website: Learn more about Inner World Discovery!

Want to know what the videoconference experience will be like? Read about a Croatian school's experience participating in Inner World Discovery! (PDF Format)

Standards

This program meets the following Pennsylvania Health, Safety and Physical Education Standards:

10.1.9. A Analyze factors that impact growth and development between adolescence and adulthood (relationships, risk factors, abstinence, STD and HIV prevention).

10.1.9. B Analyze the interdependence existing among the body systems.

10.1.9. E Analyze how personal choice, disease and genetics can impact health maintenance and disease prevention

10.1.12.A Evaluate factors that impact growth and development during adulthood and late adulthood (acute and chronic illness, communicable and non- communicable disease).

10.1.12.E Identify and analyze factors that influence the prevention and control of health problems (research, medical advances and technology).