JOHNSTOWN, Pa (WTAJ) — The Conemaugh Health System is present accepting applications for their Mentoring successful Medicine program.
The Mentoring successful Medicine programme is accepting applications for its 2023 summertime program. The programme is simply a 10-week-long acquisition for undergraduate students and is entering its 20th year. Those funny indispensable beryllium a nonmigratory of Cambria, Somerset oregon Bedford counties.
The programme volition let students to shadiness physicians crossed the Conemaugh Health System. Students volition beryllium exposed to aggregate antithetic specialties arsenic good arsenic reaching a unsocial objective acquisition to assistance hole them erstwhile applying for aesculapian school. Students who enactment successful the programme volition person a stipend from the Conemaugh Health System.
“Our extremity is to connection section students an accidental to larn astir careers successful medicine portion inspiring them to service patients successful our community,” Alex Pozun, DO, an Emergency Medicine doc astatine Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center and an alumnus of the programme who present oversees it alongside Melissa Pozun, DPT, said.
The programme volition besides connection students tools and proposal similar penning idiosyncratic statements, interviewing, gathering a web of doc mentors and what they request to bash up of applying for aesculapian school.
Over the past 20 years, 184 students person joined the programme and boasted an 80% acceptance complaint into aesculapian school. There are presently 16 mentoring successful medicine alumni moving wrong the Conemaugh Health System and the surrounding communities.
There are 10 spots unfastened for the yearly assemblage and/or aesculapian students. Each pupil indispensable beryllium a rising inferior oregon elder successful assemblage connected a pre-med way oregon they indispensable beryllium a first-year aesculapian pupil and person already taken 4 of the 5 required courses.
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Students funny successful applying to the programme tin use oregon nonstop questions to mentoringinmedicine@outlook.com. All applications are owed by February 14, 2023.
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