Good evening everyone, I am loving the energy in the chat room. I am so excited that you are able to join us this evening. This panel is very excited to be able to share what they have. Um, as I stated, my name is Dr. Rosalind Gregory bass and I'm director of the health careers program and chair of the environmental and health sciences program. Tonight we have the pleasure of hearing from our distinguished faculty and staff as well as key partners and stakeholders that are not only embody our mission, but work diligently to provide unique experiences for Spelman students. As a graduate of the institution, I can personally attest to the personalized nature of the Spelman promise that I experienced as a student. I'm from New York City, and Charleston, South Carolina. I claim both because I was raised in both places pretty much and I graduated in 1992. During that time, I had the ability to major as a biology major, and had a keen interest in neuro musculoskeletal diseases. And some of you too may have a certain condition or interests that you may have, it could be in one of the many disciplines that we offer as a liberal arts institution. After leaving Spelman in 1992, I had the ability to go to graduate school and do research for two years and after my Masters decided to go on to medical school, and there I was able to utilize all that I learned at Spelman and in my graduate program to be able to specialize in an area focus in on these neurologic and orthopedic conditions that many times individuals in our community suffer with. Now, my passion is in making sure each student interested in the health professions is prepared and has a seat waiting for them after graduating from Spelman. My story is not unique, as you'll hear from another panelists who also graduated from Spelman. And it's because the women who graduate from our institution are interested in changing the world and they do so each and every day in their communities and in international spaces. Tonight's panel, I'm sure is also passionate about seeing that you are able to see your dream realized at Spelman College, the number one historically black college and university or historically black college and can assist with that goal. So with that being said, we will start tonight's conversation with each panelists introducing themselves and sharing helpful insights that will guide you about making an informed decision about our next steps and about your next steps. We will start with Felicia Johnson, Dr. Felicia Benton Johnson and after her presentation, I will introduce our next panelists. We ask each panelist to be cognizant of their time and to allow in order to allow other panelists to be able to share their presentation. So without further ado, I next hand over this the actual tonight to Dr. Felicia Benton Johnson.
Hello, good evening. Welcome, everyone. It's an honor to be on this panel. I am Assistant Dean in the College of Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, where one of the programs I oversee is the dual degree engineering program, which we have been partners with Spelman College since 1969. I would like to say as well that I'm glad to see that you are here. My daughter is a freshman at Spelman. So yes, we It is a great thing. So with that I'm being very cognizant of time I will share my screen and give you some insight on the
the program. So with that, I want to make sure that you can see it's sharing the wrong screen. Let's see here I'm backing out that's what happens when you Oh, here it is technology I want screen to Alright, here we go. So hopefully you can see my screen I am sharing screen to you should see creating the next Georgia Institute of Technology. And that's one thing Georgia Tech is about is about creating the next story. We focus on the next generation of influencers. Breakthrough startup companies the next life saving medical treatments. That's the one thing that you will have an AI called to do degree program with Spelman and Georgia Tech, the best of both worlds. I'm an HBCU. Graduate myself from Tennessee State University. And I've been at Georgia Tech now for 17 years. And the one thing I can say Spelman and the relationship between own and Georgia Tech, the students who transfer they move on and do phenomenal things. It's a great when you're thinking about Georgia Tech, you know, this gives you some overview of what the institution looks like the makeup, the undergraduate populations, about 16,000, we have, you know, 35 major six colleges. But what's very important is that the students who transfer to Georgia Tech, the retention rate is 94%. And those students who transfer from Spelman is much higher is pretty much like 98% since 1969. But even within the last five years, we're maintaining that same retention rate. When you come to a place like Georgia Tech, you can study abroad, you have over 700 student organizations, we also have the sororities and fraternities that you can be a part of as well. So you will be able to do you know, internships, study abroad research, and we make sure we work together in a collaborative manner, not just once you transfer but even before you transfer. You know, we do things such as research, we just had an event last month where we had a panel where we hosted current Spellman, and Morehouse students who are actually at Georgia Tech to give them the real information on what it's like. So we have thing I'm playing very careful attention to time. With the College of Engineering when you transfer your transfer into the College of Engineering. These are all of our engineering disciplines, which all rank in the top 10. As you can see, I would like I'm very happy to say that we just inaugurated our next Dean Dr. Ryan Vega, who's a graduate from North Carolina a&t HBCU graduate, and he has taken a house for the college which is the largest college in the nation. Um, with that being said, this just gives you a glance of Georgia Tech when it comes to our rankings and how we're number one producer when it comes to graduating minority engineers at every level, even to the PhD. So not just coming in with your bachelor's. But moving on to pursue your masters and PhD is well what we're looking for once you know it's very important that you stay focused the primary contact at Spelman for the dual degree engineering program is Miss rutina burden, we do an excellent job of speaking to one another thing in contact and helping to facilitate your transition to Georgia Tech. This just lets you see that why you're at Tech at why you're at Spelman is very important to maintain that the GPA to be competitive. And then moving on. We also want to know about funding. We do have funding specifically for Spelman students. We have scholarships, where it's for out of state tuition waivers for the whole time that you're at Tech. And we also have other funding that ranges from 2000 to $20,000 scholarships, as well in regards to support system, one of the initiatives that oversees our Center for engineering education, diversity, where we provide mentoring scholarship research, and this is just Jim pathways to graduate school and funding as well. And, you know, this is a picture of Ayesha Jackson, who was actually a Spelman, Georgia Tech dual degree graduate, she's at Nike Corporation and what I want to say to you, you're doing the right thing right now by being involved within this program. And it's you have everything in front of you. And I'm asking you to take hold of the reins and just do it. And so I'll leave it right there. And I think I got everything within my six minutes. I know I said a lot but I am here for you. Not not just now but moving forward. I always tell my students that you got this and we're here with you to make it happen and be successful. So with that, I will turn it over to the next panel.
Awesome. Next we will hear from Dr. Fatima shafie. You are in for a treat. And we are looking forward to hearing everything that you have to share about the political science department as well as the Environmental Studies major.
Hello, everyone. We are delighted to be here and as Dr. Bassett is really a model of our graduate distinguished Professors so we are hoping that we can serve you well. We are committed to your success, both at Spelman and beyond. My name is Fatima Shafi. I am Chair of the political science department and director of environmental studies. And to us when you come to Spelman, we really want you to succeed, you're not number to us, we get to know you very well, by the time you are in our classes, and then also find a we will try to find out where your interest lies. And I know that in political science, and numerous students decide to pursue a loss school. And then they want to get a law degree. And for that, we have developed quite a few program that I will share some of it with you. And one of them is what we call tree plus tree program. This is a program that we developed with Syracuse University. I don't know why it's not sharing, but it's okay.
Okay, you did.
So this is a program that, in essence, for those students who want to go to law school, instead of spending seven years, four years at Spelman, and three years at the law school, we have created these opportunities with number of universities with law degrees, that you can spend three years at Spelman and your senior year, you can go to the law school that you choose, and then you're admitted to of course, and then we use the first year of your law school, in lieu of your senior year at Spelman, and then you come back and walk with the rest of your class. So this way, you will do law school and your BA in six years rather than seven years. And it has its financial benefits. So you will be in the school in a set of seven years for six years, but also these partners from Syracuse, and also we have another school, which is UC Hastings, and Drexel law, that they will be, they are also more than happy to share with you and also give you the you know, benefit. Because as as a spelling graduate, they all are trying to really treat you different. They have scholarship, like if in Syracuse, if you're accepted to Syracuse law school, you not only participate there, but you also get if you're you qualify, you get 50% tuition scholarship. We have the same program with UC Hastings, UC Hastings, also UK, we have agreed, we have an agreement that it's three plus three. But on top of that, if you're a California resident, then you get the free ride throughout the law school where your tuition is paid. And you get living expenses, all the three years that you are there that adds like $65,000 each year. And if you need more for living expenses, they told us that they will try to help you. But if you're not also from California, you start with 15,000 scholarship. And we also have a similar program with Drexel law, that they also will give you some scholarship and we are in conversation, final stages of conversation in Case Western Reserve for similar program and hoping that that will come with 75% the scholarship and with Pepperdine, you're doing the same. And if you want to stay for years at Spelman, that's fine too. You still have partnerships with these universities that they will come you and try to accommodate you. If you your path is not law school and you would like to graduate school we also have other program. We have summer program to prepare you. For od one universities. We have established a relationship with UC St. University of California San Diego where we send our students summer time they spend there for six weeks they get $4,000 stipend and then they are immersed into research at the end of the summer. They present the research and They apply to the Ph. D program. And they get accepted. They also get a lot of others. Currently we are working with Carnegie Mellon. So all of these, there are more opportunities that I can fit in the six minutes. But we are telling you, we are committed, just give us a chance. And we are there for you because we are very vested in your future. Because we, Stacy was my one of my students, Stacy Brown. So we see in every one of you, and other states, another leader, and we are here to help you to get there and change the world for a better place for all of us. Thank you for the opportunity. And looking forward to answering questions.
Thank you back to Sheffield. That was a wonderful overview, and especially again, highlighting the unique partnerships that we have with graduate and professional schools that really allow for students to transition smoothly from their undergraduate institution to the degrees that they're hoping to obtain on a professional level. So with that being said, it is a wonderful segue to hear from one of our other partners and stakeholders at Emory University. So we have Megan Jared, who is joining us and she is going to highlight a partnership that we have with Emory's nursing program. We have in the health careers program, over 20 articulated agreements. And this is one that's continuing to thrive. And Dr. blashill talk a little bit later about how our students interested in nursing are doing so well, but wanted to hear directly from our partner, Megan here.
Hey, everyone, my name is Megan Gerrard and I'm the Associate Director of admission and financial aid at the Emory University School of Nursing. So I'm going to talk to you guys today about two of our partner programs that we have with Solomon. Let me share my screen here.
All right.
So this is our partnership program that we have with Spelman and there are two options for students within this program. And the first is what we call our three two. And this program is ideal for students who are wanting a Bachelors of Science in Nursing as one of their first degrees and also wants to receive a Bachelor's from Spelman. So in this program students complete degree requirements at Spelman for their first three years, and then they transfer to Emory to complete their Bachelors of Science in Nursing degree in those last two years. So within five years, students have both a Bachelor's from Spelman and a bachelors from Emory School of Nursing. Our other option is our four plus one program. And this is ideal for students wanting to complete a traditional four year program at Spelman, and then continue on to receive a Master's of Nursing at Emory and students complete their bachelor's degree, while also completing nursing school prerequisites. And then after you graduate from your four year degree at Spelman, you enter a 15, or a 30 month Master's of nursing program at Emory. So at the end of both programs, students have their bachelor's from Spelman and either a Master's of nursing from Emory or a Master's of Science in Nursing from Emory. Um, so one thing to note about this is our master's in nursing program is 15 months and at the end of that program, students become registered nurses, and nurse generalists and can work at the bedside. The mn plus MSN program results in students becoming nurse practitioners, and they're eligible to work as a nurse practitioner at the advanced care level. Alright, so here's a list of the prerequisites and their corresponding courses at Spelman. Um, so students will complete the following prerequisites for both programs. They include general chemistry, anatomy and physiology, one and two, microbiology, nutrition statistics and human growth and development. And you will have an advisor both in myself and at Spelman who will help you register for these courses while you're completing your degree at Spelman. So these are the admission requirements for the program. Both programs do have automatic admission for Spelman students. So we do require a 3.0 cumulative GPA and completion of your degree requirements for your seven major or completion of your bachelor's degree from Spelman completion of all the prerequisite courses with at least a C or higher in each class, a resume and then you can optionally submit a personal statement and a test score. And that's it for me and so my contact information is here. Again, please reach out to me with any questions that you guys have about the program. But we're so excited to continue working with ourselves and students. They are some of our best leaders in the Emory nursing school so very excited at the option of working with you guys in the future.
upstanding Thank you Mr. Rice. I am going to now pass the mic over to Dr. Morris BenVeniste and he is the program director for our bs ms program with Morehouse School of Medicine in the area of neuroscience.
That's right. Thank you, Dr. Bass. As she said before, my name is Morris BenVeniste. And I direct this four plus one program in neuroscience where you start at Spelman and then continue on during your research track with us to get a master's degree after one additional year of study. So let me share my screen and tell you all about it.
Okay, as I said before, it's the bsms program in neuroscience. And it's a dual degree program that we share with the other colleges in the a UC Spelman Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University. And what happens in this program is we take in juniors, in general, that have a 3.0 or above that are interested in neuroscience. And they will graduate with their class, walk with their class and then do one additional year to get a master's degree. So what are the advantages or highlights of doing the bsms program in neuroscience? Well, first of all, you get to learn about the nervous system and the brain. Now that's really the final frontier. We're also excited about it at Morehouse School of Medicine. So unlike a lot of other programs, you also get a year and a half, at least, have mentored laboratory research experience in one of the 15 or 16 labs that we have in the Neuroscience Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine. So, we're going to teach you and improve on things that you're already learning at Spelman in terms of critical thinking skills and quantitative types of analysis. Plus, you will get to network with other neuroscientists, we have some opportunities to go to Harvard Medical School, which is one of our partners, for various stints in the research as well. So one feature that we have, because we're funded by the NIH, is that for that fifth year, that Master's year, after you graduate from Spelman, you actually get paid for the work that you're going to do now. It's only about $25,000 a year. But we also pay your tuition which is comparable so that when you graduate from Spelman, you're basically making $50,000 a year and educating yourself at the same time. I mean, who could ask for that? Or who could ask for more than that? So and then, of course, you're completing your MS degree within five years instead of the traditional six. So who are we looking for? We're looking for students that think that they may want to do a PhD in neuroscience or other fields in biology. You may not know that you want to do a PhD yet, many of you might be headed to medical school. And of course, we're also interested in students who are top tier motivated students who might be interested in medical school, primarily if they're going to combine it with kind of a research career, or that they want to be a neurosurgeon or neurologist, which usually has some form of research associated with that. So another advantage of our program is although you start the program with coursework as juniors, you're basically we're right across the street from Spelman so you can walk to have classes when we're not in COVID times. You can walk in have your classes over at Morehouse School of Medicine, get to know the people here and when you get into your laboratories. You have a few hours to spend doing your research. Come on over and you can do it. You don't To take your car, you don't have to take a plane, or here right across the street. And we're doing top level research in the Neuroscience Institute. So we're actually broadening our pipeline. I've mentioned one part of it, which you'll see in a second. But we hope to institute very shortly that is going to be also possible for you guys, freshman seminar in neuroscience that will take place at Spelman if we get our act together. And here, we're we're basically going to try to inspire you about the great possibilities in neuroscience, because you guys are going to be the generation that's going to solve it for us. So you're going to learn about different facets of neuroscience, for instance, what is memory? How does it work? How does the brain process what we see how are epileptic seizures caused, we have so many different topics that are of interest. And we're going to relate these things based back to basic biology. And that's going to be combined with our partners at Harvard, and of course, our partners at Spelman two.
Then there's possibility for summer research at Harvard, and followed by application to our program in your sophomore year, and then starting to take coursework in Morehouse School of Medicine one to two classes per semester, paid summer research with us, including the Harvard boot camp. And eventually, you will get to a point where you graduate with your class come to us to complete your master's thesis, and in one extra year graduate with an MS in neuroscience. I know our time is short, but I just want to list a few of the different types of research we have going on here. And I'd be happy to answer later on. Any questions about that? Here's our contact information. We're also on the web at Morehouse School of Medicine in the Neuroscience Institute. You can find us there and we're available. Thank you.
Thank you so much for that presentation about our Bs, Ms. program. We now are going to hear from my colleague in the health risk program, Dr. Elena blash. The services are associated associate director.
Hello, everybody. Good evening. I'm going to go fast because seems like everybody was on time. So I want to be the only one that's not. But again, my name is Dr. Elena flash. I am the Associate Director of the health careers program. I'm also Spelman College class of 1994, chemistry major while I was at Spelman, and then after Spelman went on to podiatry school at Temple University in Philadelphia, I hope that you can see my screen and hope my slides advance There we go. So skip that one. So just in general, the Health Careers program is housed in at Spelman, and it's a program that serves as a repository of information for students to help them gain admission into professional and medical school. So regardless of your interest in regardless of your major, we welcome you to our office to be service if you are interested in becoming a doctor, a dentist, a nurse, a physical therapist, our program has been around since 1971, doing the great work of supporting Spelman students proud to say that I'm one of those beneficiaries of that work. These are just some of our Spelman healthcare heroes. I will share this presentation if you all want to send it out to the students so they can have access to these links. But what this slide shows is that Spelman women are in just about every facet of healthcare, whether it be Medicine and Dentistry, or healthcare leadership or informatics epidemiology. in just about every specialty, there is a Spelman woman president present including as the former acting Surgeon General United States, we pride ourselves on being a leader. We are in the top 10 of placing students of color in application cycles for medical school. We have a variety of early acceptance and pipeline programs available for you, and probably the most of any HBCU. We are the number one liberal arts institution playing placing black students into medical school and the number one single gender institution doing that work. We focus on three things in our office, academic and career advisement being the primary thing, recruitment and awareness and student admission. So we use the Health Council process to help review student applications. This year, we also started what we call a pre health success team that had a faculty member, a pre health advisor, a peer member, peer to peer tutor, and alumni as well as a group of students and then they were like wraparound support from one another Helping you get to your next level. Um, at the end when we do student admission we are there to help you apply to medical school or dental school. We do offer test preparation courses, and our alumni have donated resources in order for us to be able to subsidize the cost of those programs. You know, sometimes students say, Well, how hard is it to get into med school? or What am I going to have to do to get there? Well, what you really should expect from Spelman is academic rigor, right? You are going to be ready for medical school, you're going to expect to have some structure and some time for flick for flexibility, right? You will need structure and discipline but understand that things may and will change, your interest will change your study habits are going to change your time management skills are going to change. So make sure you leave some room for flexibility in your schedule. Make sure that you prepare to build a network of support that you're getting to know your professors, your peers that can be tutors and support for you, and also other professionals, whether that be healthcare professionals or other staff members or advisors that can be support for you along your journey. Lastly, prepare yourself for personal and professional development. You are going to change and mature and grow and build on what we call the core competencies that you need to be able to ready for medical school. What do we do in our office we do a lot. So we do a lot of programming, whether it be a lunch and learn seminar with one of our partners. I was glad to see here this evening. seminars we do recruitment trips prior to COVID. We went to visit several schools, Yale and USC in South Carolina. We do partner students with alumni mentors, we have guest speakers. And we also offer again, like I said, those early assurance programs that you'll be hearing a lot about as a Spelman student. Just just a picture of a couple of our students who are at a summer program at Duke in nursing, and all of them now are in nursing school. They're not at Emory, Megan sorry, but they are right now in nursing programs. Just a list of some of our recent acceptances over the last couple years, so you can see a variety of where our students are going. Our students aim pretty high, and they prepare themselves, you know, well to get there with the support of our office.
There's room for you to get involved on campus as you're going to grow and develop those leadership skills. Through our office we have a health careers Club, which services students in every career interests, Operation spot smile. And then we also have Active Minds, which is a group focused on mental health. And then we offer a pre health pre professional Honor Society called alpha epsilon, delta. And I hope you all would all strive to be members of that organization. Just a few shots of our students in action at AIDS Walk Atlanta and med share and at an induction ceremony. Lastly, I just hope that you would stay in touch with us, you can follow us on Instagram at Spelman health careers, or email us if you have any questions. Thank you.
Outstanding back to flash. That was definitely an earful. But I hope our students are going to take full advantage of reviewing the PowerPoint and those links that you provided, as well as hopefully going to our website to be able to get more information on everything that was mentioned. At this time. It is now time for our guests to shine with their questions. And we are going to ask our panelists to elaborate on some of the things that have been shared based on the questions that we received. So we do have a question already from Zoey. And she wanted to know she's gotten accepted to both Georgia Tech and Spelman and she's received the a distinguished scholarship from Georgia Tech and so she wanted to know if she decided to come to Spelman, and then transfer to Georgia, Georgia Tech through the dual degree engineering program. Will Georgia Tech still honor her scholarship when she arrived?
So with that would be based on her GPA at Spelman how well she does. And I let Zoey know in the chat that staying in communication with myself, as well as my colleagues, we would be able to earmark a provost for you, as long as you maintain the GPA that's intended while you're at Spelman.
Thank you. Thank you. We also have another question. It states how would one go about getting into the three plus three law program?
So Dr. shefali, could
you speak to that a little bit?
Yes. You Calm the first semester to Spelman, Clark, please try to reach out to us. Dr. Davis is their pre law advisor, and let her know that that's your intention. And what we do is that we have a conversation with you to make sure that you take the 92 hours that you're supposed to take at Spelman. And what are the next benchmarks. And then we, once you get to the law school, we use the two semester 14 credit hours each 28 hours toward your 120. And we are here. If you like to get more information, just send us send me or Dr. Marilyn Davis, an email. We'll be happy to assist you. Thank you.
We have a question that I'm going to open it up actually, to all the panelists, especially those involved in dual degree or early assurance programs, the question focused on what do you all believe are the key qualities that a student should possess when applying to early insurance, dual degrees. So if, if Megan or Dr. Ben obesity, or Dr. blash, or even Dr. shefali, if you wanted to chime in to share your thoughts with us about that, because I think there's some universal competencies that that schools will be looking for.
Yeah, I'll jump in. And just say that, I think and this is probably pretty universal, but any type of leadership experience that you can have is really crucial. All of these different fields are looking for strong leaders, and it's something that we really need are strong leaders in all of these different areas of interest. So for us at the School of Nursing, we really love to see students who have leadership experience, who had experience, you know, even starting clubs or things like that always looks amazing on your resume. And we really appreciate a detailed resume as well as the outlines not only what you've been up to, but what competencies you've gotten from those experiences. So that's something that we always look at, not only for admission, but also for scholarships.
So for our program in neuroscience, we actually give you the benefit of the doubt in that we have a two tier process where if you have a 3.0, and a year of chemistry and a year of biology, by the time you finish your sophomore year, you've already passed tier one. And then you come and take the first core curriculum graduate course with us, which is not an easy course. But we're here for you. And then we get to know you, we will know you better than any application online application can can can tell tell us. So we will know you and then at the end of that course, we actually then do our selection for the second tier.
I can't over emphasize the value of seeking advising from your advisor. Because once they get to know you, they know your interest. And then they will open doors for you about opportunities for research opportunities about internship, that all will boost your resume, and also prepare you for the next step. So please, by all means, be advised by the advisor, not your peers, your professional advisor, come and see us. And that would be lovely to meet you and be there for you.
Thank you, everyone. We do have a couple of questions regarding the nursing program. And so Dr. blash I wanted to gain your or get your thoughts around majors for students interested in Emory's nursing program, or some of the others that we have. So if you could just share what have been some of the majors that students have had to pursue those early issues?
Sure, sure. And Megan, you feel free to add anything about the majors. But at Spelman, our students benefit from a liberal arts education, and so because of that they as pre nursing majors, pre nursing students, they are not solely tied into STEM majors. So you will see our pre nursing students be biology majors health science majors, but you'll also see the major in psychology or comparative women's studies or English or we even have a dance major who just finished at Emory's accelerated Bachelors of Science in Nursing program. So it's whatever your true passion is, that's what your major should be. And then you will work with your pre health advisor and the health careers program to make sure that you are meeting all of the prerequisite courses and building all of the other competencies that you need to be successful in nursing school.
Thank you so much, Dr. Glass. And Mr. Rod they also wanted to know if they have the grades, is it an automatic acceptance into the nursing program? Or are there other things that you all are looking for? Yes,
so it is an automatic acceptance into the nursing program. As long as you meet that 3.0 cumulative GPA and had at least a C in all of your prerequisite courses, you are automatically admitted to the program. So everything else so your resume your personal statement, and any additional test scores you might want to submit can help in the scholarship review process. But as far as admission goes, it's pretty black and white with the 3.0 GPA.
Thank you. We do have a question regarding the dual degree engineering program. So Dr. Ben Johnson, if they have applied to Spelman is it required for them to apply to Georgia Tech as well as a pre freshman.
So they look at the processes once you have been admitted to Spelman, you complete the necessary courses the curriculum program of study on Spelman side, and then you would apply as a transfer student within the dual degree program to Georgia Tech. But I can tell you that the students from Spelman, who actually follow the program of study and have the GPA they have not they typically admitted we haven't had any students to not be admitted from Spelman who's completed the necessary requirements and have the GPA. They have not been denied and then into Georgia Tech.
Mackenzie is interested in finding out how can she best prepare for the neuroscience bs ms program, she's planning to major in psychology with a concentration in neuroscience at Spelman, and would just wanted to know with doing that benefit her and possibly give her an advantage into getting into the Bs, Ms. program.
Yes, so we do have this two tier process. So actually getting in should not be that difficult, but she needs to make sure that she takes a year of chemistry and a year of biology before she finishes. I mean, by the time she finishes her sophomore year, she should also seek us out and our liaison at Spelman, Mark Lee, Dr. Lee, and we can more properly advise her on what to do, you know, time is short now. So but then we can properly advise her.
Thank you. And a follow up question for that. Dr. BBC, is what careers of the students who have already participated in the program? What careers do those students typically consume?
Right? That's a really good question. So the careers that students like to pursue are MD, they usually have an interest in doing some type of research. Combined with our MD degree, our program isn't old enough so that we've had any graduates from medical school yet, but almost there, but that's kind of where they're at. Of course, we would love to have people interested in research careers, possibly academic, and they're going for their PhD. And we even have an alum who's in the MD Ph. D. program at Emory. So we can go all over we have a PhD student at Johns Hopkins at the moment, and we're also placing other students within the Harvard Medical School Network that haven't quite made it yet to professional school if that's what they're gonna decide to do or go for their PhD.
Thank you. I will say that Spellman is head also a very long history of having relationships with institutions in the Atlanta area, which also is another reason why students should consider coming to Spelman. We have the arch pro gram that connects us to Georgia Tech to Emory, Morehouse School of Medicine and others within the area. And there's so much research that's taking place. We want to also answer a question that is coming up frequently. They're hearing about the great nursing program, that early acceptance program as well as the law, school early assurance programs, and they want to know, Dr. blash. Do we have any relationships with medical schools and dental schools?
Yes, we do. And for the sake of time I eat we have tons of them, I did send latrina, a copy of my presentation, which has a link to our website that lists all of our partnership agreements. So feel free to share that with our students. If not, if you just Google Spelman health careers, you'll take it'll take you to our homepage, and you'll be able to see all of our partnerships.
Thank you. And we are getting the same question about the three plus three law programs after sheffey. And is there a link that they can go to in order to get that information or way to contact you?
They can email me we are working on the link because the partnerships are growing by leaps and bounds. So we are going to have a place on our that page as political science and create that opportunity. I mean that information, their website for those information, thank you caught emailed me, you can go to political science of shafi@spelman.edu, and how much yourselves.
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