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What's New with
the HPO:
1/14/10 - Paid Health Care Educational
Opportunity/Internship (via Health Care Connection). View the
brochure by clicking here.
"HCC
provides paid educational opportunities to undergraduates interested in
pursuing careers in healthcare management and policy, health education,
community health, nurse administration, and other public health
options. We do not offer medical internships, however students
considering medicine that also have a strong interest in exploring
other or related health career options will be considered."
12/16/09 - Medicine-Related Job
Opportunity: (via ScribeAmerica, LCC) 2 years of part-time
employment as a data-recorder for a physician at CMC Hospital Emergency
Room ($10-$16/hr). Click here
for more information.
New HPEC
for the class matriculating in 2011.
Applications
for the Scranton-Temple Residency Program Undergraduate Externship in
Primary Care are now submitted via e-mail. Please contact Rob
Waldeck, Ph.D., at waldeckr2@scranton.edu.
The MCAT Registration
System operates on a regional schedule. Please visit the AAMC
website for information about the 2010 test dates.
For students who miss
HPO meetings, pertinent PowerPoint presentations are posted under the
"Advice and
Information" section.
If any students are unsure
about whether they qualify for the AAMC Fee Assistance Program, please
read this page
for more information.
The AAMC offers a website
to help guide pre-medical students. Please visit the website at www.aspiringdocs.org.
The AAMC's 2010 MCAT Essentials is now
posted under the "Advice and Information" section. This is MANDATORY reading for all
students who are taking the MCAT in 2010.
The
2010 Osteopathic
Medical
College Information Book has been released. Please check
the book for updated information.
On the HPO homepage is a live feed of medical
news. This feed
will regularly update with the most
recent articles from News-Medical.net. Below you will find a News
Archive of all
the news articles that were manually posted prior to June of 2006.
Be sure to check out the ScienceTimes
Podcast. The entire archive can be accessed for free via
iTunes.
Other
Headlines and News:
News Archive
Google News
Ongoing Coverage:
Liability
Crisis
HIPAA
Vaccine
Supply
Stem
Cell Research Debate
Sources
of Medical News:
AMA
Newspaper
News-Medical.net
Harvard
World Heath News
Ivanhoe
Medical
Breakthroughs
CNN
Health News
As a pre-professional
student, you should always keep up to date with what's going on in the
world, particularly in your medical field. Interviewers will expect
this.
Sign up
for FREE
access to the NY Times online,
an excellent news source, and read medical,
national,
and world
news regularly.
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