Isabella Camero-Buscemi’s favorite television program is “Grey’s Anatomy.”

Isabella Camero-Buscemi, right, prepares to examine the lens of a dissected cow eye.

Fourth-year medical student Julie Abraham places a cast on the finger of Lindsay Jacob, 5.

Nina Olszewski and Lilly Pope, both of Warren, learn a new definition of “hands-on” exploration.

A self-proclaimed “tri-clops,” Emilie-Clare O'Mara, 10, daughter of Leslie Lundahl, Ph.D., assistant professor of Psychiatry, sits at the non-mydriatic camera, which can shoot pictures of the back of the eye without dilation.

Amira and Dalia Rabbah of Canton examine slices of brain.

Dean Valerie Parisi gets a finger cast.

She already has a white lab coat adorned with her name.

The 6-year-old wants to be a surgeon like her grandfather, Luis Gabriel Camero, M.D., a 1979 resident alum of the Wayne State University School of Medicine and section chief of Thoracic Surgery at St. John Macomb Hospital and St. John Hospital and Medical Center.

After a session of placing organ stickers on a body diagram at the annual Future Docs, Isabella – accompanied by her grandfather -- insisted there was no way she was going to hold a cow eye.

But, about 30 minutes later, the magnetism of science pulled Isabella past her squeamishness, and there she stood in the Ophthalmology room staffed by Kresge Eye Institute members, rubber gloved and inspecting the lens of a dissected cow eye with her cousin, Gabriela Camero-Sulak, also 6.

Isabella’s experience at her first Future Docs on April 9 is a microcosm of what the event is all about.

“Interest in medical science has to begin early and this is a way to expose children in a good way to medicine and science,” said Valerie Parisi, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., dean of the School of Medicine. “If we pique their interest early in the health professions – whether that’s medicine, nursing, pharmacy – we can get them headed in the right direction.”

Future Docs, sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Alumni Association, saw hundreds of children, their parents, grandparents and other family members roam the first two floors of Scott Hall for an exploration of the science of medicine. Designed to hook children early with an interest in science that one day may mature into medical careers, the event offered 16 workstations to explore, lunch and T-shirts sporting the phrase “Be nice to me, I’ll be a doctor one day,”

The young visitors did not hold a lock on all the excitement.

“This is a lot of fun,” said fourth-year medical student Julie Abraham as she placed a cast on the finger of Lindsay Jacob, 5. “We do this through our service group, the Aesculapians, and the kids are great,” added Abraham, who plans a career in Pediatrics.

Another volunteer, first-year medical student Brian Haber, intends to go into emergency medicine. “The path to medicine is such a long one, so it’s important that the kids can get a jump on anatomy and science. And the kids are fun, so it’s a great opportunity,” he said while manning the “Human Organs” exhibit.

Haber assisted Parker O’Neill, 7, of Grosse Pointe Farms, in identifying where organs are located in the human body. Turned out Parker didn’t need much help as he breezed through the station.

“This is fun; it’s really good,” said Parker, who already knows he wants to practice sports medicine.