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The National Melanoma Awareness Project is a medical-student
run educational outreach program directed at local middle school
and high school students. This community service project educates
all participants about skin safety and skin cancer with
an emphasis on melanoma prevention and self –screening
for earlier detection. Long term, we are working with many medical
schools across the nation to multiply the outreach. You
are invited to join us in spreading the message… Spot
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- To provide a network for collaboration on national skin cancer educational outreach efforts
- To educate the community about the realities of skin cancer, with emphasis on prevention and early detection of melanoma
through sun protection and frequent self-screening
- To leave students with an interest in teaching their friends and loved ones about melanoma
- To increase awareness, knowledge, and suspicion of melanoma in future physicians across medical specialties
- To personalize teaching about melanoma and to connect those affected by it through sharing of real-life stories
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- Nationwide medical student-led education of students in grades 6-12 about skin cancer/melanoma through a carefully designed,
interactive curriculum
- Encouraging participation by widespread sharing of this curriculum and all materials with any medical school or group
interested in adopting the project
- Establishment
of an ongoing poster-contest which encourages youngsters to create
posters spreading the melanoma message,and giving them an active role
in educating their communities through the replication, display, and
distribution of these posters (with permission)
- Establishment of this website, which shares information and also encourages the sharing of melanoma stories
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