Des Moines University students will introduce nearly 200 elementary-age boys to career options in medicine and the health sciences on Saturday at the medical school. The program, Boys Reaching for Opportunities in Science (B.R.O.S.) will enable boys in grades 2-6 to experience hands-on activities such as scrubbing into a sterile unit, handling and learning about real human organs, exploring the body with ultrasound and practicing basic first aid. The program, in its second year, was created in response to statistics regarding the likelihood of disengagement that minority males can experience early in school if they are not exposed to creative learning opportunities. According to a report issued by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in 2018, 57% of African American medical school graduates were men in 1986, but by 2015 that share had dropped to just 35%, even as the total number of black graduates had increased.