» Project P.R.E. M.E.D.
Project PREMED (Providing Real World Experiences for future Marshall Educated Doctors) is a diversity initiative of the MUSOM Office of Student Affairs in collaboration with MU’s Office of Multicultural Affairs. It is an immersion program designed to expose selected undergraduates to the life of a medical student and life in medical school. It seeks to improve the visibility and accessibility of MUJCESOM for students of color at institutions of higher education. Initial targeted institutions of higher learning will include Marshall University, Alcorn State University, schools associated with the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation and Morgan State University. The first session will take place October 13-15, 2011. We anticipate that we will recruit another group of students in the spring of the academic year.
The program is designed around two major goals: (1) after selection, students will visit to the SOM, meet administrators and guests from the Office of Multicultural Affairs and participate in sessions with medical school administrators, attend a medical school class, and engage in other related medical school activities (2) students will also be assigned a medical student mentor who will be responsible for maintaining follow up with students after their visit in order to provide guidance to them regarding the process of preparing for and applying to medical school.
Application Forms can be found at http://www.marshall.edu/mcip/
Contact Information
Dr. Marie Veitia - veitia@marshall.edu
Dr Shari Clarke - clarkes@marshall.edu