Very average little story about a young Beverly Howard (one day Crusher) at Starfleet Medical. She was always fairly thinly characterised in canon, but honestly: the protagonist here could have been anyone. Blandly pleasant, and that's about it. The story, as is so often the case in these Academy tie-in novels, is basically about ineffectual adults and the teens who solve problems for them. Which is presumably the brief, given that the series is aimed at kids, but still. It's hard to take the teachers here seriously. 

There's nothing else especially wrong with it, bar the fact that it's mildly boring.