Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP) Application is now open!
The Summer Health Professions Education Program offers an educational opportunity for first- and second-year college students interested in exploring a career in the health professions. The program’s focus is on increasing diversity of health professionals.
The career tracks include dentistry, medicine, nursing, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy, physician assistant, and public health.
This is a free 6-week summer enrichment program for first year and sophomore college students from underrepresented and/or socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds interested in health careers. Students are also paid a $600 stipend.
SHPEP scholars are able to:
• Recognize how others’ skills and knowledge complement and overlap with their own.
• Identify the benefits of the interprofessional team approach for patients, health care professionals, family members, communities, and health systems.
The application deadline will be February 5, 2020.
Additional information about the program and the online application can be accessed at the SHPEP national website, and more specific information about the UW’s program site can be found here.
If there are further questions, please reach out to Nora Coronado, the UW SHPEP Program Director.
