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5 Addressing Health Disparities Through Education
5 Addressing Health Disparities Through Education
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VALUING TRADITIONS AND NEW PATHWAYS The UNM Health Sciences Center (UNMHSC) has established the vision that, working with community partners, it will help New Mexico "make more progress in health and health equity than any other state by 2020." To help achieve this vision, it has established a wide variety of programs to engage, enroll, and encourage students in its health profession schools (see Table 5-1)
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improvement, test preparation, exposure to health care professions Undergraduate Health 6-week program 25 College freshmen Academic enrichment, exposure, and Sciences Enrichment (incoming) details about programs and services Program offered by universities; hands-on experiences through shadowing of health care professionals
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Mental and Behavioral Every Saturday for 15 15 N/A Test preparation, academic enrichment, Health Academy weeks and rural clinical immersion experiences in mental and behavioral health sciences MCAT+/DAT+/PCAT+ 6-week summer program 5 Postgraduate Preparatory courses and preadmissions workshops/seminars to help strengthen medical, pharmacy, and dental school applications Pathways to Pharmacy N/A N/A College graduates Improve academic qualifications of graduates selected by UNM College of Pharmacy admissions committee; facilitate entry into the college Premedical Enrichment N/A N/A N/A Help educationally disadvantaged students in their long-term professional success, achievement of a doctoral degree NOTE: DAT = Dental Admissions Test for dental school; MCAT = Medical College Admissions Test; PCAT = Pharmacy College Admission Test. a Numbers are estimates based on text.
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The Dream Makers Health Careers Club, which has about 80 participants, is an afterschool program for middle school students to stimulate interest in the medical and health professions. Twice per month, hands-on activities are led by community and UNM Health Sciences Center professionals to provide students with positive role models that they can emulate.
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The MCAT+/DAT+/PCAT+ is a 6-week summer program designed to strengthen about 25 students' applications to medical, pharmacy, and dental schools by providing preparatory courses and preadmissions workshops and seminars. The New Mexico Clinical Education program is a 6-week summer immersion program for about five preprofessional students.
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The program provides an array of curriculum and support services, including specialized academic advising, scholarship and financial aid, peer and faculty clinician mentors, living and learning communities, tutoring and supplemental instruction, and MCAT preparatory courses. The students also participate in summer service-learning experiences in rural communities that are medically underserved.
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Up until middle school, Kee spent his summers herding sheep and attending ceremonies with his grandparents, and he said that his family remains very traditional and still keeps about 200 head of sheep and 100 head of cattle. But his family is also very pro-education.
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. Seeing a lot of the health disparities and diseases that continue to plague the Navajo people is a bit startling." He also has done summer programs with the Association of American Indian Physicians.
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"Stories are a very intricate means of moving highly detailed quantitative and qualitative information through thousands of years," said Bolman. Tribal science is laden with associated "values," while the scientific
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Where I had tried to forcefully put chemistry and calculus into them, I found by helping them understand who they were and then showing them the relevancy of why they need to know this and when they are going to use it, I set them free to learn in their own way," she explained. In a program called Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences, Bolman took students to the seven sacred sites in the Black Hills, many of which the students had never seen, and used remote sensing to connect them with the traditional concepts of earth, wind, fire, and water.
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We need to set forth to build what they say they need." Finally, said Bolman, all nations should recognize the value of tribal and indigenous science perspectives. "Stories are a very intricate means of moving highly detailed quantitative and qualitative information through thousands of years." -- Jacqueline Bolman, Humboldt State University AMERICAN INDIANS AND THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS: A GROWING CRISIS Sam Deloria, director of the American Indian Graduate Center, Inc., in Albuquerque, New Mexico, took exception to the idea that Native American students should be expected to return to the places where they grew up.
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It was an important battle for me," he said. The American Indian Graduate Center is a scholarship program (primarily for graduate students)
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Expecting all Native American students to return home to become primary care physicians instead of becoming heart surgeons is unrealistic, Deloria said. Also, because many Native Americans want to return to their communities, they are in schools of public health rather than medicine because they can more quickly return to the community with an M.P.H.
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Romero-Leggott observed that the Combined B.A./M.D. Degree program does require that students serve in underserved communities, but students know that and have signed a letter agreeing to those terms.
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