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Harvard Summer Program Preps American Indians for College

June 1, 2004 | Program Result

In June-July of 2003, the Native American High School Summer Programs at Harvard Medical School brought Native American students and teachers to Harvard for a three-week program.

Eniola Mudasiru, Minority Medical Education Program, 2001

April 17, 2006 | Story

Once she completes her residency in one of several internal medicine sub-specialties she is considering, Mudasiru would like to practice both here and in her native country.

Shannon Wiegand, Minority Medical Education Program, 1989

July 27, 2011 | Story

Growing up in Alaska, she knew no female physicians, no Native American physicians and no physicians of color. "You don't know what you can do until you're exposed to the possibility," she says.

Valerie Cordero, Minority Medical Education Program, 1996

July 27, 2011 | Story

Just being in a medically oriented academic environment with people from a wide variety of backgrounds was valuable, Cordero says. "For me, it was like Wow - there are some Native Americans who are doctors."

Kara King, Minority Medical Education Program, 2001

February 8, 2006 | Story

In the summer before her final medical school year, King joined the program staff as a resident adviser, staying in the dorm with students for the entire program.

Nicholas James Smith, Minority Medical Education Program, 2000

April 17, 2006 | Story

Smith read Gifted Hands, the autobiography of Ben Carson, MD, an African American from inner-city Detroit, who became director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Nick Smith wanted to be a doctor.

Walter Conwell, Minority Medical Education Program, 2002

March 30, 2007 | Story

It wasn't until he was a high school senior, working as an intern for the U.S. Steel Corp., that Conwell met an African-American physician - a meeting that had a profound impact. "One of my motto

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