Posted on December 1, 2011
Mentoring in Medicine, Inc., a national New York-based non-profit organization dedicated to mentoring, academic enrichment and leadership development in students ……who are underrepresented in medicine (Black, Hispanic, Native American), will hold its sixth annual free conference.
In New York, most MiM students live in Harlem and the Bronx.
The purpose of the conference is to give third-grade through college/post-baccalaureate students, parents, healthcare professionals, educators, caregivers and others from the community a forum to attend workshops, participate in interactive demonstrations and health screenings, network and hear opening and closing keynote speakers Dr. Bernard Harris Jr., the first African-American to walk in space, and “Hip-Hop Science Professor” Dr. Christopher Emdin.
Montefiore Medical Center emergency medicine physician and Albert Einstein College of Medicine Associate Professor Lynne Holden and two other physicians and an educator founded MiM in 2006.
MiM and Dr. Holden would make a great feature story. She and students are available for interviews before the Dec. 10 conference.
Last year, 31 MiM students applied to medical colleges and schools for physician assistants. Twenty-four were admitted to medical schools; three to post-baccalaureate programs; two to physician assistants’ schools; two were not offered admission.
8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sat., Dec. 10, 2011
Frederick Douglass Academy I, 2581 Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Blvd., Harlem.
http://www.medicalmentor.org
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