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Program Encourages Regional Native American Students to Pursue Health Sciences

Insight Into Diversity

The University of Minnesota (UMN) Medical School Duluth Campus will increase access to biomedical science careers for Native American students in the region with the new Gateways to Medicine and Research Master of Science degree program. There needs to be more representation of Native Americans in clinics and in academic medicine.

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UW-Madison Program to Cover Tribal Students’ Tuition and Other Expenses

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The graduate degree program will start as a five-year pilot, with law school tuition covered for three years and medical school tuition for four years. Undergraduate freshmen will be eligible for four years of financial support, while transfer students will qualify for two years.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

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Still University of Graduate Health Studies (ATSU) is a founding partner of the Academic Medicine Consortium of Arizona, a group of medical schools that collaborate to identify and nurture students toward academic medicine. Engaging Middle Schoolers in Health Professions — Michigan Medicine University of Michigan Medical School.

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What Higher Education Can Learn from a Public Charity Hospital

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From the medical school's perspective, the emergency room at the public hospital was "the best school in suturing a man could have in peacetime." Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. We need to place mentoring and relationship building first. Time is of the essence.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

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Throughout 2022, Ball State University has made significant progress on its five-year Inclusive Excellence Plan, which aims to advance broad DEI goals across the university, including campus culture, policies and infrastructure, and recruitment and retention. Grant Supports Inclusive Teaching, Student Retention — Colorado School of Mines.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

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Diversifying Our Curing Community (DOCC) Arkansas State University College of Science and Mathematics DOCC seeks to increase the number of under-represented students accepted into medical schools. It serves to recruit local talent for the graduate school pipeline to help diversify the workforce. Dreamline Pathways A.T.

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How Racial and Ethnic Identity Influence Your College Journey

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But what is that value for students to continue to have a safe space or a space in which they are welcomed, to feel safe about who they are and their history or their identities? Affirmative action, diversity efforts are not about fixing history. That's the responsibility of medical schools, right? WL: Correct.

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