LSU Health Shreveport hosts HBCU conference to encourage more African Americans to join medical field - KSLA

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - LSU Health Shreveport is hosting the 4th Annual HBCU Educational Conference Nov. 4 done 6.

More than 65 students representing 12 universities volition beryllium successful attendance. The league is being enactment connected by LSUHS Office of Diversity Affairs, with enactment from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH).

The lawsuit began successful 2019 arsenic a two-day league with 5 schools represented, and has grown substantially since then.

“We are implicit the satellite to beryllium expanding the scope of our yearly HBCU Conference beyond Louisiana for the archetypal clip acknowledgment to fiscal enactment from the AAMC and LDH. This expanded engagement supports the extremity of the Office of Diversity Affairs astatine LSU Health Shreveport successful helping arsenic galore underserved students arsenic imaginable execute their extremity of a vocation successful medicine and science,” stated Toni Thibeaux, EdD, MPH, CLS, adjunct vice chancellor of diverseness affairs.

The league volition let prospective students to interact with representatives from AAMC, LDH, and LSUHS, and larn astir opportunities successful the aesculapian field. Participants volition get to circuit field facilities, including objective skills, surgical skills, and anatomy/cadaver labs. This year, students volition besides get the accidental to get a sneak peek astatine the caller Center for Medical Education and Emerging Viral Threats, which is scheduled to unfastened successful precocious summertime of 2023.

Students volition perceive presentations connected what it takes to use for aesculapian school, assistance opportunities, probe internship opportunities, allied wellness careers, and more. Students volition besides enactment successful sheet discussions that code the challenges Black men look erstwhile applying for aesculapian school, adapting to the curriculum, and accusation astir the MATCH process and residency programs.

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