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After trollin the "Black Males and the Sciences Thread", I believe a few of you might be thinking what I'm thinking.
Some background: I am a black male, first year medical student. I also happen to be the only black male in my class...which as I've seen is, sadly, far from uncommon haha
I am also lucky enough to be the current SNMA President for our chapter here. We've got several projects in effect, and I'm thinking abt starting something that might be big.
To put it succinctly, I'm looking to engineer a longitudinal mentoring program, specifically for African-American male undergrads (high schoolers too?) in the Houston area interested in medicine; an idea many people have tossed around. In fact, some googling led me to a few similar programs that are already in effect that I would like to emulate certain aspects of:
MUSC's Gentlemen and a Scholar program:
http://www.musc.edu/com1/diversity/gentleman_scholar.htm
Chicago's Project Brotherhood (not directly related, but has lots of good aspects):
http://projectbrotherhood.net/
Anyway, I tend to be pretty good at developing and implementing ideas, but pretty crappy at coming up with them haha I noticed several of you have several of great ideas as to what such a program should include/entail/convey and I'd be quite thankful if you could shoot some of those ideas my way.
Much appreciated!
Some background: I am a black male, first year medical student. I also happen to be the only black male in my class...which as I've seen is, sadly, far from uncommon haha
I am also lucky enough to be the current SNMA President for our chapter here. We've got several projects in effect, and I'm thinking abt starting something that might be big.
To put it succinctly, I'm looking to engineer a longitudinal mentoring program, specifically for African-American male undergrads (high schoolers too?) in the Houston area interested in medicine; an idea many people have tossed around. In fact, some googling led me to a few similar programs that are already in effect that I would like to emulate certain aspects of:
MUSC's Gentlemen and a Scholar program:
http://www.musc.edu/com1/diversity/gentleman_scholar.htm
Chicago's Project Brotherhood (not directly related, but has lots of good aspects):
http://projectbrotherhood.net/
Anyway, I tend to be pretty good at developing and implementing ideas, but pretty crappy at coming up with them haha I noticed several of you have several of great ideas as to what such a program should include/entail/convey and I'd be quite thankful if you could shoot some of those ideas my way.
Much appreciated!