Enrichment Opportunities Abroad
Please read the guidelines below before participating in mission trips and health outreach abroad. Pre-Health students are not licensed practitioners, and it is unethical and unsafe for them to practice medicine in another country, even if that country does not restrict medical practice.
- Dental Guidelines for Serving Abroad
- Learning Safely and Ethically While Abroad
- Citadel Study Abroad Experience for Pre-Health Students
- International Dental Volunteer Opportunities
- Unite for Site: Volunteer Abroad with the Global Impact Corps
- Pre-Health Shadowing in Africa
- Project Okurase
- FIMRC
Reading for Enrichment
- Common Sense about Health Care in America
- The Cost Conundrum
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
- Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
- Memoir of a Debulked Woman
- others on p. 42 of this great PDF
Scholarship Opportunities
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
- HPSP Air Force Scholarships for Medical School – More info on Air Force HPSP
- HPSP Army Scholarships: SFC Owens, Cell number: (404) 808-7021, Office number: (843)5777-3425, Email: anthony.d.owens.mil@mail.mil . The MCAT score for automatic acceptance into the HPSP program is currently set at 507
- HPSP Navy Scholarships: Contact Lt. Deskin at 843-412-6721 or 919-835-5820, and she can answer your questions
- National Guard Scholarships
- Sherry R. Arnstein Minority Student Scholarship Osteopathic Medical School Scholarship for African-American; Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian; mainland Puerto Rican, or Hispanic Students
- Indian Health Service Scholarship Program for American Indians and Alaska Natives provides financial support in exchange for a minimum two-year service commitment within an Indian health program in your chosen health professional discipline.
- NHSC Scholarship Program National Health Service Corps scholarships are non-military scholarships for health-professional students who want to go into primary care and are willing to serve in a high-need community. The program pays tuition and fees and provides a living stipend to students enrolled in accredited medical (M.D. or D.O.), dental, nurse practitioner, certified nurse midwife, or physician assistant training.
- NHSC Loan Repayment Program (LRP) offers fully trained primary care physicians (M.D. or D.O.), family nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, physician assistants, dentists, dental hygienists, and certain mental health clinicians $60,000 to repay student loans in exchange for two years serving in a community-based site in a high-need HPSA that has applied to and been approved by the NHSC as a service site.
Scholarship Opportunities for Citadel Pre-Health Students: The Citadel offers several scholarships for pre-health students, please contact The Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships for details.
Programs for Disadvantaged Students
- AAMC’s Application and MCAT Fee Assistance Program
- AACOMAS Fee Assistance Program
- ADEA AADSAS Application Fees and Fee Assistance Program
- Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP) – increase your chance of acceptance with this free program
- Fossil Energy Research Internships for females and minorities
- UNC School of Medicine’s MED Program
- MUSC’s SM3 Program: Pre-Health Mentors for Minorities
- Student Diversity Programs at MUSC
- Nursing Scholarships at Emory University
- Zucker Pipeline Program
- Gateways to the Laboratory Summer Program in New York City for Pre-MD/PhD Students
For Native Americans
- Native Americans into Medicine (NAM)
- American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
- University of North Dakota School of Medicine accepts a number of Native American students each year
- University of Oklahoma’s College of Medicine accepts a number of Native American students each year