ORGANIZATIONS
Alpha Epsilon Delta ‒ National
Pre-Health Honor Society (AED)
AED functions as a health preprofessional honor society encouraging
excellence in scholarship. It emphasizes
the significance of health education
and promotes cooperation and contact
among professionals.
American Medical Student
Association (AMSA)
AMSA is committed to involving its
members in the social, moral, and ethical
obligations of the profession of medicine.
This group also provides opportunities
to give back to the community through
volunteer activities and helps to assist
students with job shadowing.
Pre-Student Osteopathic Medical
Association (Pre-SOMA)
The goals of this organization are
to promote osteopathic medicine,
to educate students about career
opportunities in the field, to increase
the number of applicants to osteopathic
medical school, and to prepare students
for success as osteopathic physicians.
Health Occupations Students of
America (HOSA)
HOSA provides students with knowledge
and understanding of various health care
careers. It also provides opportunities
for students to compete in various state
and regional competitions to learn about
current health issues.
Minority Association of PreHealth Students (MAPS)
This organization is open to all ETSU
students. MAPS aims to provide students
with valuable opportunities in the
community to enhance their knowledge
of the health care field they are planning
to enter. Opportunities include job
shadowing, volunteering, and research.
MAPS is also geared toward forming
friendships among members.
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HOW CAN I GET EXPERIENCE?
You can start by asking your own primary care provider or specialist for shadowing
opportunities.
The Aspiring Docs program through the AAMC [https://www.aamc.org/
students/aspiring/] offers guidance related to the field of medicine and helps
aspiring medical school applicants secure clinical shadowing experience.
The Summer Medical and Dental Education Program (SMDEP) is a six-week
academic enrichment program for freshman and sophomore college students
who want to become physicians or dentists. SMDEP hosts students at 12 program
sites across the county, including Duke University, The University of Virginia, and
University of Louisville. Learn more and apply at www.smdep.org.
www.smdep.org.
Quillen College of Medicine also offers excellent structured clinical internship
opportunities for students. Many of these experiences are seasonal and include
an application process, so do your research early to keep from missing out on
the next cycle.
MEDICAL HORIZONS
This summer program, the result of a partnership between ETSU s Quillen College
of Medicine and Mountain States Health Alliance, allows students to participate
in four 1-week internships in various specialties including family medicine,
pediatrics, internal medicine, surgery, psychiatry, and obstetrics/gynecology. In
addition to clinical experience shadowing physicians in various specialties, you
will also receive lectures on topics related to the medical field.
Learn more and apply for the program at
www.etsu.edu/com/sa/admissions/medicalhorizons.
ANATOMY INTERNSHIPS
These internships, which run in the Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters, offer
students hands-on experience in the gross anatomy lab at Quillen COM. Students
participate in projects, observe dissections, and practice suturing.
Learn more and apply for an internship at
www.etsu.edu/com/dbms/academics/anatomy.aspx.
SUMMER INTERNSHIPS
Gain experience in Quillen s gross anatomy lab and patient simulation lab to
learn more about opportunities available to budding health professionals and to
experience hands-on learning, much like you would as a medical student.
Learn more at www.etsu.edu/com/simlab/summerinternship.aspx.
RURAL COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
This experience, best suited to students who are interested in rural health careers,
involves a 6-8 week group project supervised by a health care professional. You
will have the chance to help address real health problems within a community by
performing data collection, interviewing the public, preparing health education
materials, and/or working in health promotion. You will also be shadowing and
observing the work of your physician supervisor.
Learn more and apply at www.etsu.edu/com/ruralprograms/premedical/community.
aspx.
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