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 (opens in a new tab)
- Learning Safely and Ethically While Abroad (opens in a new tab)
- Citadel Study Abroad Experience for Pre-Health Students
- International Dental Volunteer Opportunities (opens in a new tab)
- Unite for Site: Volunteer Abroad with the Global Impact Corps
- Pre-Health Shadowing in Africa (opens in a new tab)
- Project Okurase (opens in a new tab)
- FIMRC (opens in a new tab)
Reading for Enrichment
- Common Sense about Health Care in America (opens in a new tab)
- The Cost Conundrum (opens in a new tab)
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (opens in a new tab)
- Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine (opens in a new tab)
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (opens in a new tab)
- Memoir of a Debulked Woman (opens in a new tab)
- others on p. 42 of this great PDF (opens in a new tab)
Scholarship Opportunities
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (opens in a new tab)
- HPSP Air Force Scholarships for Medical School (opens in a new tab) – More info on Air Force HPSP (opens in a new tab)
- HPSP Army Scholarships (opens in a new tab): 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 (opens in a new tab): Contact Lt. Deskin at 843-412-6721 or 919-835-5820, and she can answer your questions
- National Guard Scholarships (opens in a new tab)
- Sherry R. Arnstein Minority Student Scholarship (opens in a new tab) 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 (opens in a new tab) 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 (opens in a new tab) 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) (opens in a new tab) 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 (opens in a new tab) for details.
Programs for Disadvantaged Students
- AAMC’s Application and MCAT Fee Assistance Program (opens in a new tab)
- AACOMAS Fee Assistance Program (opens in a new tab)
- ADEA AADSAS Application Fees and Fee Assistance Program (opens in a new tab)
- Summer Health Professions Education Program (opens in a new tab) (SHPEP) – increase your chance of acceptance with this free program
- Fossil Energy Research Internships (opens in a new tab)
- UNC School of Medicine’s MED Program (opens in a new tab)
- MUSC’s SM3 Program (opens in a new tab)
- Student Diversity Programs at MUSC
- Nursing Scholarships at Emory University (opens in a new tab)
- Zucker Pipeline Program (opens in a new tab)
- Gateways to the Laboratory Summer Program in New York City for Pre-MD/PhD Students (opens in a new tab)
For Native Americans
- Native Americans into Medicine (NAM) (opens in a new tab)
- American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) (opens in a new tab)
- University of North Dakota School of Medicine (opens in a new tab) accepts a number of Native American students each year
- University of Oklahoma’s College of Medicine (opens in a new tab) accepts a number of Native American students each year