Resources for Pre-Medical Students

Explore Health Careers
www.explorehealthcareers.org
ExploreHealthCareers.org is a free, multi-disciplinary, interactive health careers website designed to explain the array of health professions and provide easy access to students seeking information about health careers. This website is a joint initiative involving national foundations, professional associations, health career advisors, educational institutions, and college students.

Summer Health Professions Education Program
www.smdep.org
SHPEP is a free (full tuition, housing, and meals) six-week summer academic enrichment program that offers freshman and sophomore college students intensive and personalized medical and dental school preparation.

NERA MedPrep Scholars Program
www.neramedprep.org
NERA MedPrep Scholars Program is a free summer enrichment program for under-represented and/or economically disadvantaged college students interested in the medical field. MedPrep is a 3 year summer commitment designed to give students an opportunity to develop key skills and competencies that are important to success on the road to medical school.

AspiringDocs
www.aspiringdocs.org
Run by AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges), AspiringDocs.org represents all 126 accredited medical schools that grant the M.D. degree and more than 400 major teaching hospitals in the United States. The AAMC also administer the MCAT® exam and manage the application process for medical school.

MedicalMentor
www.medicalmentor.org
Mentoring in Medicine finds and nurtures socioeconomically disadvantaged students in urban schools from third grade on to help them develop the tools necessary to successfully achieve their goal of becoming a health care professional.