We have a new format for the 2018-19 school year! All annoucements will be posted as blog posts on our website. We will still link to the current items in this weekly newsletter, but on the blog website, you will be able to sort posts by category and by health professions tags. This will also allow us to reduce the Newsletter to one email each week.

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Throughout the fall and spring semesters, Penn State PreHealth Advising offer a series of group advising sessions.
NEW for the 2018-19 school year: Students considering medical, dental, podiatry, and physician assistant professions must attend a Med Prep or PA Prep group advising session prior to meeting one-on-one with PreHealth Advising.

SPRING 2019 GROUP ADVISING DATES ARE UP!

Group Advising sessions occuring in the next two weeks:

• PA App: Wednesday, January 23, 6:00-7:00pm in 104 Thomas
• PA Prep: Tuesday, January 29, 6:00-7:00pm in 201 Thomas

Desciptions of sessions and the full Spring 2019 schedule can be found here: http://sites.psu.edu/sciadvising/2018/12/06/spring-2019-health-professions-group-advising/

Hershey College of Medicine’s Primary Care Scholars program, May 20-31, 2019

Criteria: 

• Sincere & genuine interest in becoming a Primary Care physician
• Sophomore, junior or senior who will graduate in August, 2019.

Applications are now available at room 225B Ritenour Bldg. for Hershey’s “Primary Care Scholars’ Program for 2019”

More Information

Important Note:  A reference letter from someone in your home community or college community is required. Include the sealed, signed envelope from your “Community Letter Writer” with your application.  Last, you drop off the full application set at 225B Ritenour Bldg.

The AAMC has announced changes to their Fee Assistance Program (FAP). They have increased the number of application fee waivers from 16 to 20. To read the full announcement on the additional benefits they have added this year, please go here: http://sites.psu.edu/sciadvising/2019/01/17/aamc-fee-assistance-program-updates-2019/

• January 17 and other dates – Global Health Minor Information Sessions
• *NEW* January 18 Deadline - Spark Program Application for First-Year Students

• January 17 - Osteopathic Medical School Virtual Fair
• *NEW* February 6-Podiatry Virtual Fair
• *NEW* March 16- ADEA GoDental Recruitment Fair (Chicago-travel assistance available)
• *NEW* April 4 - Philadelphia/Main Line Health Professions School Expo
• *NEW* April 16 and April 18- Hopkins and UMD Health Professions Fair

• *NEW* January 31- WMED (Western Michigan) and You Webinar
• Exam Krackers - Free MCAT Prep Webinars
• Kaplan - Free MCAT/DAT/OAT/PCAT/GRE Prep Webinars

• January 20 Deadline - Erickson Discovery Grant Application
• January 31 Deadline - Student Engagement Network Grant Application

• January 18 Deadline - Allegheny Health Network Summer Research Internship
• January 18 Deadline - University of Michigan UM-SMART MSTP Summer Research Program
• January 21 Deadline - US Army Institute of Surgical Research Summer Internship Program
• *NEW* January 25 Deadline- Penn's Undergraduate Clinical Scholars Program
• *NEW* January 28 Deadline- Emory LGS-SOAR Program
• January 31 Deadline- UCLA Public Health Scholars Training Program
• *NEW* January 31 Deadline - Primary Care Scholars Program Application at Hershey College of Medicine
• *NEW* January 31 Deadline- HPREP at Campbell University (North Carolina)
• January 31 Deadline - Columbia Summer Public Health Scholars Program
• February 1 Deadline - GW SPARC Program
• *NEW* February 15 Deadline- SHPEP Applications Due
• February 15 Deadline - Health PASS program at Des Moines University
• February 15 Deadline - University of Alabama Summer Research
• February 25 Deadline - Baltimore Health Immersion Program
• *NEW* February 28 Deadline-Summer Program in Neuroscience at Boston University
• *NEW* April 1 Deadline- Summer Pharmacy Institute at University of Illinois
• The Prehealth Advising Office has compiled a list of summer volunteer/research/shadowing opportunities. Go here to view.

• January 20 Deadline - Erickson Discovery Grant Application
• Pitch Exploration Lab at Penn State - Undergraduate Research Opportunity
• Crowley Lab in Biobehavioral Health – Volunteer and For-Credit Research Positions

• *NEW* January 28 Deadline-Centre Helps Volunteer Applications Due
• *NEW* February 1 Deadline - HealthWorks Peer Educator Application
• *NEW* February 10 Deadline- Project Horseshoe Farm Gap Year Fellowship
• *NEW* Applications open in February for National Health Corps (AmeriCorps) 1 year service
• Volunteers Needed - James E. Van Zandt VA Hospital in Altoona, PA
• Volunteers Needed - Out of the Cold: Centre County

• Interviews Beginning in January - Summer Positions with Science-U
• *NEW* Full-time Senior Clinical Research Coordinator at the Fetal Medicine Institute
• Full-Time positions with Integrated DNA Technologies
• Part-Time Tutoring Position - Morgan Academic Center
• Part-Time Tutoring Position – Chemistry Resource Room
• Part-Time Tutoring Position - World Campus STAT 200 Course

• *NEW* January discounts on test prep from Altius
• Key Dates for New AAMC Official Prep Hub  (Information important for OLD AND NEW users)
• Kaplan weekly prizes and free MCAT guide

• Test Prep Book Exchange

• SC 201: Medical Professions (1 cr.)

• *NEW* February 23- Prehealth Summit at University of Pittsburgh
• *NEW* February 23- A Day in the Life at Penn Medical (for students underrepresented in medicine)
• April 13- NHMA Conference, travel grants available

Opportunities available year-round can be found on this page:
http://sites.psu.edu/sciadvising/blogroll/opportunities-available-year-round/

Such opportunities include:

• Information regarding Health Professions Group Advising Sessions
• Information regarding the Committee Letter process
• Donations for test prep books (MCAT, DAT, PCAT)
• Medical Scribing positions
• Other continuous job postings

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