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Partnership for Future Minority Health Scientists - Project 3000 By 2000.

Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, D.C.
Division of Community and Minority Programs, 2450 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037

Phone: (202) 828-0584 Fax (202) 828-1125
tang@aamc.org

Project 3000 by 2000 was launched in November 1991 to address the continuing underrepresentation of Blacks, American Indians, Mexican Americans, and Mainland Puerto Ricans in medical schools. While the primary goal of the Project is to increase the number of underrepresented minority students annually entering medical schools to 3,000 by the year 2000, virtually all health science graduate and professional programs are similarly plagued by minority underrepresentation. For this reason, Project 3000 by 2000 strives to unite medical schools and teaching hospitals with educators from other health professions schools, undergraduate and postgraduate science programs and local school systems to increase opportunities for minority and disadvantaged students in all graduate and professional health science programs.

The Project advocates fundamental and systemic reforms to enhance educational opportunities at the high school and college levels. These include the development of an extensive network of academically rigorous and supportive magnet health science high schools and collaboration between these schools, undergraduate colleges, and health professions schools in the areas of curriculum and admissions.

To promote this agenda, the AAMC provides the following resources:

  • Project 3000 by 2000 Technical Assistance Manual: Guidelines for Action, as well as custom data supplements for each medical school.

  • Project 3000 by 2000 Progress Reports (Annually).

  • Project 3000 by 2000 Health Professions Partnership Initiative (HPPI).

  • A collaboration of the AAMC, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the HPPI provides funding and technical assistance to medical, nursing, and other health professional schools that develop and implement educational partnerships with school systems and colleges for the purpose of increasing the number of academically well-prepared minority students who aspire to pursue careers in the health professions.

  • Minority Medical Education Pipeline (MMEP). Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the AAMC is the National Program Office for the MMEP.

  • Through the MMEP, underrepresented minority college students participate in a six-week summer enrichment program designed to help them compete successfully for acceptance into medical school.

  • Expanded Minority Admissions Exercise (EMAE). The EMAE is designed for directors of admissions, members of admissions committees, minority affairs representatives, and administrators involved in student affairs. The objectives of this exercise are to better understand non-cognitive factors in the medical school admissions process, increase appreciation of cultural diversity, and to model interviewing skills.

  • NESPA On-Line! An Internet information service for educators in the NESPA Network and others interested in achieving the goals of the Project.

  • NESPA On-Line! can be found at http://www.aamc.org. A list server also is provided to promote dialogue among educators. To subscribe, send an e-mail message "subscribe nespa" to majordomo@aamcinfo.aamc. org.

  • NESPA NEWS, a quarterly newsletter distributed free of charge to educators at all stages of the educational pipeline who are working to enhance opportunities for minority students in the health sciences.

  • Web Site. Information about activities and programs related to Project 3000 by 2000 can be found on the AAMC web site.

  • Secondary School Science Minority Achievement Registry (S3MAR) is published in two volumes, one or both of which may be of interest to readers with different needs. The S3MAR Program Directory (Volume I) contains descriptions of educational programs in the health sciences for students of high school age. The S3MAR Student Listing (Volume II) is designed to be used primarily by college and health professions educators for the purpose of identifying and recruiting students who have demonstrated a serious interest in the health sciences through their participation in one of these programs.

  • The Grapevine, a free newsletter distributed three times a year to students listed in S3MAR Volume II and to others, upon request. It provides information on health science careers, how to prepare for these careers, and other articles for and about the students participating in the programs listed in Volume I.

  • Technical assistance in the form of workshops, meetings, and consultations for educators at the precollege and undergraduate preprofessional levels and for graduate level health science educators working to implement Project 3000 by 2000.

For more information about this project, contact the Association of American Medical Colleges, Division of Community and Minority Programs, 2450 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037. Tel: 202-828-0584.