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UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COL OF MEDICINE

Tucson, AZ

http://www.medicine.arizona.edu

The University of Arizona College of Medicine, with campuses in Tucson and Phoenix, offers a variety of academic, professional and social support services for Hispanic medical students. The College also successfully recruits Hispanic students by working with many partners beginning early in the academic “pipeline.” UA undergraduates and medical students serve as “health-career ambassadors,” visiting elementary and middle schools to present interactive health-sciences programs to youth. Summer programs for middle and high school students provide academic enrichment and health-career exploration opportunities.

The College’s Office of Outreach and Multicultural Affairs (www.diversity.medicine.arizona.edu) provides statewide outreach, advances diversity in academic medicine and helps meet the health-care needs of Arizona’s diverse population. Through a variety of programs, the office recruits and retains high school students, undergraduates and medical students who are underrepresented in health-care fields. Signature programs include Med-Start (celebrating its 40th year, 1969-2009), an intensive five-week academic enrichment experience for high school students; F.A.C.E.S., a semester-long, service-learning course for bilingual Spanish-speaking, undergraduate students; Arizona Applicant Academy, a workshop for pre-medical students to assist in the medical school application process; and FRONTERA, a summer internship opportunity in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Students also participate in AspiringDocs Workshops.

The College’s Arizona Hispanic Center of Excellence (AHCOE) (www.hispanichealth.arizona.edu), a national center of Hispanic health research and training, also enhances the medical college’s ability to recruit and retain Hispanic students and faculty. Established in 1999, AHCOE brings together the UA Office of Outreach and Multicultural Affairs, the UA Mexican American Studies and Research Center, the UA Graduate College and other institutional entities to work with statewide partners to encourage collaboration among people and programs that promote Hispanic health issues and Hispanic health care workforce development.

Other UA College of Medicine programs that provide Hispanic and other minority students with opportunities for academic enrichment and health career exploration include the Summer Institute on Medical Ignorance (SIMI) (www.ignorance.medicine.arizona.edu), developed to enrich student education and general health literacy beyond classroom lectures, and and the UA College of Medicine chapter of the Latino Medical Student Association (www.hispanichealth.arizona.edu/LMSA%20information.doc).

A number of UA programs also offer Hispanic and other minority students the academic enrichment that is an essential foundation to the pursuit of medical careers, including the Center for the Mathematics Education of Latinos/as (CEMELAS) (http://math.arizona.edu/~cemela), the GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) program (http://tucsongearup.arizona.edu), the MARC (Minority Access to Research Careers) program (www.biochem.arizona.edu/marc) and the Undergraduate Biology Research Program (https://ubrp.arizona.edu).

The medical college’s ability to recruit and retain Hispanic students and faculty has been enhanced by the opening of The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix in partnership with Arizona State University in downtown Phoenix. Dedicated in October 2006, the full, four-year program is an expansion of the UA College of Medicine program in Phoenix that began in 1992 to offer third- and fourth-year medical students the opportunity to complete their training at Phoenix-area hospitals. The campus also is home to the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and the Arizona Biomedical Collaborative, a joint research venture of the UA and Arizona State University (ASU). The Phoenix program is a collaborative effort with ASU, the City of Phoenix, TGen, Valley hospitals, community physicians, foundations and other organizations to bring research and biomedical engineering to Maricopa County and further strengthen health care for Arizona.

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