Program Eligibility
The dental/medical summer programs increase the number of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds in the health and allied health professions. A more diverse health workforce is needed to meet the needs of underserved populations.
This program will enhance the academic skills of students from disadvantaged backgrounds and supports them in successfully competing, entering and graduating from health professions training programs.
Students participating must be:
- Disadvantaged Students - defined as a student from an environment that has inhibited the individual from obtaining the knowledge, skills and abilities to succeed in a health professions school or from a program providing education or training in an allied health profession, and/or a student from a family with an annual income below a level based on low-income thresholds according to family size
- undergraduate or graduate programs
- U.S. citizens, non-citizen nationals or foreign nationals with a visa permitting permanent U.S. residence
All Summer Programs
- Recruit individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds for health professions training
- Assist disadvantaged students to enter training programs in health or allied health professions
- Provide counseling, mentoring and other services that help students successfully complete their training
- Provide preliminary education and health research training
- Publicize financial aid and financial planning resources to students and parents, as well as information about health care careers and training
- Expose students to community-based primary health care with public and private nonprofit providers.
- Develop a larger and more competitive applicant pool through partnerships with institutions of higher education, school districts and other community-based entities.