Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program Expands To Include Dentistry
September 7, 2011 | News Release
The national program will begin offering support to dental scholars starting with its 2012 application period.
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Program to provide grants to the nation's schools of dentistry to expand the level of student aid support for students whose social background might lead them to select underserved areas for their professional practice.
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."
RWJF Receives Prestigious Gies Award for Outstanding Innovation
April 20, 2009 | Story
This honor recognizes RWJF's support of the Pipeline, Profession & Practice: Community-Based Dental Education (Dental Pipeline) program.
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.
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.
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