National Meeting http://www.naahp.org/meetings.html
Good site for assistance Health Professions Advisory Program (HPAP) http://hpap.syr.edu/intsites.htm
Links to Health Professions web sites http://www.naahp.org/NAAHPlinks.html
For List Serve contact healthprof HLTHPROF or Health Professional List Serve about list serves
For publications regarding getting in to health professions schools try http://www.naahp.org/pubs.html There are books for students and reference materials for health profession advisors by authors such as Ed Trachtenburg
Resources for advisors http://www.naahp.org/resources.htm
Writing Letters of Recommendation
Summer Programs for Minority and Disadvantaged Students
Central Application Services Information – click here for a chart on the central applications
You and Your Health Professions Advisor – An Important Partnership (PDF file)
Health Profession Associations Updates 2006
Click here to visit the “Health Professions Links” page.
Getting admitted and special programs at medical schools listed at Association of American Medical Colleges Web site at www.aamc.org/students/applying/programs/start.htm
Advisor Location by college size by HlthProf and Patty Cobb
For a Rural Health (Medical Education) Advisor contact Rbowman@unmc.edu
Role for health advisors in the pipeline to rural practice College Advisor Comments by Dan Marien
1. Give good advice as always to rural-interested candidates
2. Encourage students early to explore various health careers
3. Resist urban centralization that is a factor in reducing the flow of
college educated folks and professionals to rural areas
4. Work with health professional schools to do career fairs and activities with rural high schools, science teachers, etc. Utilize rural-interested students for such work as they have major motivation to recruit others like them to get into the rural pipeline and graduate and assist or replace them.
5. Work with legislatures to address these problems with solutions such
as the Professional Education and Placement Program (PEPP) in Kentucky which helps advise rural students about health careers, professional school requirements, shadowing opportunities. This program stabilized and increased rural background admissions in Kentucky when the nation had declines in all applications. This was a similar effect when compared to UTMB Galveston which experienced no decline in minority applications because of its outreach and pre-professional programs even when the anti-affirmative action impact hit.
More about advisors at http://www.naahp.org/advisors.html#top
Education - the entire pipeline