SOWEGA AHEC Wins National Award
The National AHEC Organization (NAO) Awards Committee awarded SOWEGA AHEC's project, "Pathways to Med School" the NAO Center Award for Excellence for Health Careers Student Recruitment at the 2008 National AHEC Organization Conference in Denver.
About the Pathway to Med School program:
Albany Area Primary Health Care, Inc, Southwest Georgia Family Medicine Residency and the Southwest Georgia Area Health Education Center (SOWEGA-AHEC) have developed this program for college students who are interested in going into the fields of Family Medicine and Primary Care.
The program consists of shadowing physicians in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics, working on research projects, and attending seminars to enhance the participants ability to gain admission into medical school.
Students who are actively pursuing an approved pre-med curriculum and plan to attend medical school are eligible to apply. The program can accept only a limited number of students and early application is strongly recommended. Preference is given to students from the SOWEGA-AHEC's 38 counties.
See the Pathway to Med School site for more details.
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