UAMS plans minority program - Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' Little Rock field is shown successful this record photo.

A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences programme for students from underrepresented number groups funny successful pursuing careers successful wellness attraction oregon probe is accepting applications.

Health Career University provides precocious schoolhouse and undergraduate students from underrepresented number groups with vulnerability to wellness careers and assistance getting into aesculapian school, according to the UAMS Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

The exertion deadline is Feb. 18 for Health Career University programs successful Little Rock and Pine Bluff.

The Summer Research Internship programme is unfastened to students successful their past 2 years of precocious schoolhouse oregon their archetypal 2 years of college. Students successful the eight-week programme enactment successful laboratory settings with mentors and larn however to behaviour science-based research. The programme is disposable successful Little Rock from May 26-Aug. 4.

Freshman and sophomore assemblage students tin besides larn much astir careers successful wellness attraction done the Pre-Health Summer Scholars Program. Participants larn astir cutting-edge aesculapian treatments and technology, and collaborate with leaders successful the wellness attraction industry. The program, which is disposable successful Little Rock and Pine Bluff, runs from June 5-30.

The eight-week Pre-Medical Summer Scholars programme focuses connected getting students into aesculapian school. Faculty members and aesculapian students mentor premedical students, assisting with their mentation for the Medical College Admission Test and their aesculapian schoolhouse applications. The programme is scheduled from June 5-Aug. 4 and is disposable successful Little Rock and Pine Bluff.

Health Career University besides helps students done the Historically Black Colleges and Universities' Med Track Program, a concern with the University of Arkansas astatine Pine Bluff and Philander Smith College successful Little Rock. UAMS provides students from those historically Black colleges and universities with vocation guidance and world resources.

The Med Track includes 2 year-long programme options:

• The Anesthesia Tech Pipeline program, which works with students who person graduated assemblage but aren't prepared to spell straight to aesculapian school, serving arsenic a spread twelvemonth during which students are trained and hired arsenic anesthesia technicians astatine UAMS.

• The Serving Underrepresented Populations done Engagement and Research program, which teaches assemblage students what it means to beryllium researchers.

Most of the programs connection stipends to students who participate.

Program requirements and applications are disposable astatine https://bit.ly/3CMoOEK. More accusation is disposable by emailing [email protected]

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