HEALTH: Minority Medical Students at Largest-Ever Symposium; High School Students Welcome as Fellows Discuss Careers

From: The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education | Date: June 4, 1999 | Copyright information

HEALTH: Minority Medical Students at Largest-Ever Symposium; High School Students Welcome as Fellows Discuss Careers

Thirty-two of the nation's most gifted minority medical students gathered at the headquarters of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, from March 10th through 12th, to present findings of their biomedical research projects during the annual symposium of The Fellowship Program in Academic Medicine for Minority Students.

The meeting was the largest annual gathering of minority medical students in the United States.

The symposium also ...

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