At this school clinic, students get checkups, then career mentoring

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A CLOSE LOOK: Carolina Carrillo, a Warren Alpert Medical School student, conducts a health examination of a Calcutt Middle School student at the SMART Plus clinic at Calcutt in Central Falls. Medical students also serve as mentors for middle schoolers interested in the field of health care. 
COURTESY WARREN ­ALPERT MEDICAL SCHOOL
A CLOSE LOOK: Carolina Carrillo, a Warren Alpert Medical School student, conducts a health examination of a Calcutt Middle School student at the SMART Plus clinic at Calcutt in Central Falls. Medical students also serve as mentors for middle schoolers interested in the field of health care. 
COURTESY WARREN ­ALPERT MEDICAL SCHOOL

As Rhode Island continues to face a shortage of health care workers, a first-of-its-kind program using students from Brown University’s medical school is attempting to spark an early interest in the field among Central Falls middle schoolers. Brown’s Warren Alpert Medical School has partnered with Central Falls’ Calcutt Middle School for the last three years

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