High school students from Central Louisiana spent a day in the life of a medical student.

It was all a part of Tulane Medical Schools Career MD Day. The hope is that at the end of the day they will have a better idea of what their career will be in the future.

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Listening to and measuring breathing and heart rates, performing CPR and laparoscopic surgery -- its all in a days work for students at the center for advanced medical simulation and learning at Tulane Med School.

But Tuesday, the lab was taken over by 30 juniors and seniors in high school.

They are with a program thats part of the Central Louisiana Health Education Center, or AHEC, aimed at exposing kids to the medical field before college to help them decided if its the right path for them

Theyre giving you the truth, said Camila Carrera, a Lavonia High School student. Theyre not like, Come to med school. Be a doctor! Theyre like, Its this, this and this. Its helpful this way, but its also stressful in this way. I feel like thats a good aspect of this program.

I really hope that today is eye-opening for them, that they get to experience -- from the med students, the passion that these medical student have for becoming a doctor and kind of reignite a passion in the med students as well -- but for our high schoolers is to really firm up the desires theyve had since they were a kid to become a doctor, said Elizabeth Sylvest, with Cenral Louisiana Area Health Education Center.

Slyvest said they track their students progress even after they graduate from high school. She says several students have decided to go into the medical field after spending time in the program and after spending time here at Tulane Med School.

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Central Louisiana high school students participate in Tulane Medical School's Career MD Day