Medical camp

Dissecting human eyes isn't the normal fare of summer camp. It's part of an unusual program at a small Virginia hospital that aims to hook kids as early as middle school on the possibilities of a medical career. It's not for the squeamish. But no one's ever fainted over the eyes.

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Mon., July 25, 2011

Campers listen to Tom Gaile from Old Dominion Eye Foundation, foreground, as he explains how to cut the cornea out of a human eye at Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton, Va., in this photo taken Wednesday, July 13, 2011. From right are, Brianna Bowens, Shyanne Allen, Samira Chehreh and Jacque Alongi. Dissecting human eyes isn't the normal fare of summer camp. It's part of an unusual program at a small Virginia hospital that aims to hook kids as early as middle school on the possibilities of a medical career. It's not for the squeamish. But no one's ever fainted over the eyes.

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Lark Nash, 14, holds up a donated human eye so her lab partner can take a picture during a medical camp session on removing corneas from eyes at Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton, Va., in this photo taken Wednesday, July 13, 2011. Dissecting human eyes isn't the normal fare of summer camp. It's part of an unusual program at a small Virginia hospital that aims to hook kids as early as middle school on the possibilities of a medical career. It's not for the squeamish. But no one's ever fainted over the eyes.

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Nate Hunter, 13, right, and other campers, prepare their pigs' feet during a medical camp session on making stitches at Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton, Va., in this photo taken Wednesday, July 13, 2011. Dissecting human eyes isn't the normal fare of summer camp. It's part of an unusual program at a small Virginia hospital that aims to hook kids as early as middle school on the possibilities of a medical career. It's not for the squeamish. But no one's ever fainted over the eyes.

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Shyanne Allen, right, performs compressions as Shreyas Garga, left, and Marquesia Atwater, center, get instruction from Dr. Greg Wagner, rear, during a lesson in the ER at Faurquier Hospital in Warrenton, Va., in this photo taken Wednesday, July 13, 2011. Dissecting human eyes isn't the normal fare of summer camp. It's part of an unusual program at a small Virginia hospital that aims to hook kids as early as middle school on the possibilities of a medical career. It's not for the squeamish. But no one's ever fainted over the eyes.

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Marquesia Atwater shows a cornea from a human eye to her lab partner during a medical camp session on cutting out corneas at Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton, Va., in this photo taken Wednesday, July 13, 2011. Dissecting human eyes isn't the normal fare of summer camp. It's part of an unusual program at a small Virginia hospital that aims to hook kids as early as middle school on the possibilities of a medical career. It's not for the squeamish. But no one's ever fainted over the eyes.

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Megan Underwood, 12, right, watches as a technician draws her blood to learn how blood type is determined during a lab segment of medical camp at Faurquier Hospital in Warrenton, Va., in this photo taken Wednesday, July 13, 2011. Dissecting human eyes isn't the normal fare of summer camp. It's part of an unusual program at a small Virginia hospital that aims to hook kids as early as middle school on the possibilities of a medical career. It's not for the squeamish. But no one's ever fainted over the eyes.

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