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COMP Pomona students volunteer at SHPEP
The WesternU Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP), Student Experience:
sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, offers an innovative “SHPEP gave me the opportunity to share my appreciation and passion for medicine with
approach to academic enrichment in the basic sciences through team-based other students who are interested in the field. I had the chance to meet pre-medical
learning. The program brings 80 participants from across the country to a six- students, and I was excited to hear how their background shaped their decision to pursue
week residential experience featuring Interprofessional Education exposure to science and medicine. After finishing my first year of medical school, I wasn’t quite sure
dental medicine, osteopathic medicine, podiatric medicine, nursing, optometry, how much experience I had actually gained. Being able to speak about my first suturing
pharmacy, and health sciences fields. The mission of SHPEP is to provide class, my first medical school exam, and my first patient encounter made me realize how
students from underrepresented, underserved or socioeconomically each step in my medical school journey is helping to mold me into the physician I am
disadvantaged backgrounds the resources to pursue a career in the health proud to become. Being a medical student is a decision that will impact your own life and
professions. Participants worked with WesternU faculty and medical, dental those around you.”
and other health professions students on topics including STEM, the practice, Kelly Law, OMS
scope and core competencies of multiple disciplines, ethics and values, financial
aid, HIPAA, and more. They were guided through clinically-relevant experiential “Receiving an acceptance to a graduate medical education program is no easy task, and I
learning in small groups, and conducted hands-on exams and procedures in remember how much I personally struggled in my own application process. SHPEP was an
close association with WesternU faculty and College of Osteopathic Medicine opportunity for me to help those who are currently in that process, for me to give advice
of the Pacific students. Additionally, COMP students served as mentors and on what helped me accomplish my goals and what I could have done better. Helping
role models, while faculty committed to networking with WesternU SHPEP students with their suture workshop as well as their presentations allowed me to reflect
participants after they completed the program, acting as advisors about health on my medical education thus far, help those in pursuit of that journey, and look towards
care careers and education as needed. Each week of the program had a central the future as I enter my clinical years of medical school.”
theme in a diverse environment, and cultural and program-themed field trips
and activities took place on weekends. n Nadeem Albadawi, OMS
-By Helen Musharbash, MS
The UniHealth Foundation recently announced substantial support for
the SHPEP program for Summer 2018. Thank you, UniHealth!
The WesternU Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP), Student Experience:
sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, offers an innovative “SHPEP gave me the opportunity to share my appreciation and passion for medicine with
approach to academic enrichment in the basic sciences through team-based other students who are interested in the field. I had the chance to meet pre-medical
learning. The program brings 80 participants from across the country to a six- students, and I was excited to hear how their background shaped their decision to pursue
week residential experience featuring Interprofessional Education exposure to science and medicine. After finishing my first year of medical school, I wasn’t quite sure
dental medicine, osteopathic medicine, podiatric medicine, nursing, optometry, how much experience I had actually gained. Being able to speak about my first suturing
pharmacy, and health sciences fields. The mission of SHPEP is to provide class, my first medical school exam, and my first patient encounter made me realize how
students from underrepresented, underserved or socioeconomically each step in my medical school journey is helping to mold me into the physician I am
disadvantaged backgrounds the resources to pursue a career in the health proud to become. Being a medical student is a decision that will impact your own life and
professions. Participants worked with WesternU faculty and medical, dental those around you.”
and other health professions students on topics including STEM, the practice, Kelly Law, OMS
scope and core competencies of multiple disciplines, ethics and values, financial
aid, HIPAA, and more. They were guided through clinically-relevant experiential “Receiving an acceptance to a graduate medical education program is no easy task, and I
learning in small groups, and conducted hands-on exams and procedures in remember how much I personally struggled in my own application process. SHPEP was an
close association with WesternU faculty and College of Osteopathic Medicine opportunity for me to help those who are currently in that process, for me to give advice
of the Pacific students. Additionally, COMP students served as mentors and on what helped me accomplish my goals and what I could have done better. Helping
role models, while faculty committed to networking with WesternU SHPEP students with their suture workshop as well as their presentations allowed me to reflect
participants after they completed the program, acting as advisors about health on my medical education thus far, help those in pursuit of that journey, and look towards
care careers and education as needed. Each week of the program had a central the future as I enter my clinical years of medical school.”
theme in a diverse environment, and cultural and program-themed field trips
and activities took place on weekends. n Nadeem Albadawi, OMS
-By Helen Musharbash, MS
The UniHealth Foundation recently announced substantial support for
the SHPEP program for Summer 2018. Thank you, UniHealth!
