Pritzker News
Pritzker School of Medicine Now Accepting 2008 Applications for Summer Pipeline Programs
December 18, 2007 — The Pritzker School of Medicine Office of Multicultural Affairs is now accepting applications for their summer pipeline programs. The programs have various deadlines throughout the month of March.
The pipeline programs are part of an ongoing series of initiatives within the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine to increase diversity in medicine and encourage greater cultural competency among physicians.
The Pritzker School of Medicine Experience in Research (PSOMER) is an 8-week research, education, and mentoring experience with University of Chicago faculty. Open only to college students who are rising junior and seniors and will be graduating after January 1, 2009, the projects will range from basic science laboratory to clinical research projects. Eight to ten students will be selected.
Chicago Academic Medicine Program (CAMP) is a 6-week summer program for undergraduate pre-med students who have completed their freshman or sophomore year in college, or who are graduating from high school in spring of 2008.
Young Scientists Training Program (YSTP) is a 10-week summer program for ten outstanding minority high school students to gain experience in research, medicine, and the biological sciences. Students work in the laboratories of University of Chicago faculty where they learn basic or clinical research in the areas of diabetes, endocrinology, nutrition, obesity, digestive, liver, urologic, kidney, or blood disorders.
