What Will You Do With Your Summer Vacation?
Become a Rural Medical Scholar? Get a Jump-Start on College and Investigate the World of a Medical Career.
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Sponsored by the Mississippi Rural Health Corps
A joint endeavor between Mississippi State University Extension Service and Mississippi's 15 community and junior colleges.
It will be a summer to remember...
A Great Opportunity
If you are a high school student between your junior and senior years, you have a great opportunity to learn more about a medical career – and get an early look at college life!
Rural Medical Scholars
If you’re trying to answer that all-important question, “Do I want to be a doctor?” the Rural Medical Scholars program at Mississippi State University may help you chart your future path.
Here are a few benefits:
- Taking real college courses and gaining college credits you can use later
- Making new friends while experiencing college life
- Receiving free tuition, housing, meals, and textbooks
- Experiencing a summer “vacation” you’ll never forget!
Rural Medical Scholars Program
The Rural Medical Scholars Program is an opportunity for high school students between their junior and senior years to learn more about a career as a family medicine physician. This intense, rigorous program will give you a chance to check out the academic requirements for becoming a physician. You will also take a look at the day-to-day practice of medicine.
As a Rural Medical Scholar, you will be part of a 5-week summer program at Mississippi State University. You will take two pre-med courses (Principles of Zoology and Pre Calculus ), spend four afternoons “shadowing” a physician in a clinical setting, visit the University of Mississippi Medical School, and participate in events geared to the interests of young, aspiring physicians like you. To help launch your college career, a study skills workshop for gifted students will kick off the program.
Thirty outstanding students from throughout Mississippi will be selected to participate. Each Mississippi community college will select and sponsor candidates from its district. It will be a summer to remember – the summer you started on the path to becoming a member of the Medical School Class of 2016!
“Sounds good, but I was planning to work this summer.” Consider this: Except for a nominal $40 registration fee (due after official acceptance), Scholars receive tuition, textbooks, housing, and a food allowance for the experience FREE! That’s a $2,100 savings! Plus you get a head start on college expenses with 7 hours of college credit behind you.
The program will run from May 28 through July 3, 2007. As a Scholar, you will be required to stay on campus the weekends of June 16 and 30; all other weekends you will be expected to return home.
Do I Qualify?
- Currently completing your junior year of high school
- Minimum composite score of 25 on the ACT and minimum 22 math ACT score
- High school grades in line with ACT scores
- Desire to learn about a career in family medicine
- Mississippi resident
*If you have not taken the ACT test, you must do so by the February 10, 2007 test. It is also strongly recommended that you complete Trigonometry before the start of the scholars program.
How Do I Apply?
- Complete the student portion of the application available at www.rms.msucares.com or contact your community college representative
- Ask one of your teachers for a recommendation
- Ask the recommending teacher to forward the application and recommendation to your guidance counselor
- Your counselor will need to attach ACT scores and an official transcript and mail the completed application to the sponsoring community college representative by March 16, 2007
Community colleges, serving as your local sponsor, will begin the selection process for the Scholars program with applications received on or before March 16.
For additional information, please contact:
Ms. Patricia Furdge
Coahoma Community College
3240 Friars Point Rd.
Clarksdale, MS 38614
662-621-4282
pfurdge@coahomacc.edu
Ms. Beverly Barnes
Copiah-Lincoln Community College
PO Box 649
Wesson, MS 39191
601-643-8397
beverly.barnes@colin.edu
Dr. Lavinia Sparkman
East Central Community College
PO Box 129
Decatur, MS 39327
601-635-6202
lsparkman@eccc.edu
Ms. Sheila Flurry
East Mississippi Community College
PO Box 100
Mayhew, MS 39753
662-243-1979
sflurry@eastms.edu
Ms. Chelia Woodfork-Thompson
Hinds Community College
1750 Chadwick Drive
Jackson, MS 39204
601-371-3534
cwoodfork-thompson@hindscc.edu
Ms. Rose Canterbury
Holmes Community College
412 West Ridgeland Avenue
Ridgeland, MS 39157
601-605-3302
rcanterbury@holmescc.edu
Ms. Andrea Hughes
Itawamba Community College
2176 South Eason Boulevard
Tupelo, MS 38804
662-620-5146
ahhughes@iccms.edu
Mr. Jim Kelly
Jones County Junior College
900 South Court Street
Ellisville, MS 39437
601-477-4022
jim.kelly@jcjc.edu
Ms. Dianne Walton
Meridian Community College
910 Hwy 19 North
Meridian, MS 39307
601-484-8895
dwalton@meridiancc.edu
Ms. Patti Livingston
Mississippi Delta Community College
PO Box 668
Moorhead, MS 38761
662-246-6417
plivingston@msdelta.edu
Dr. Judith Benvenutti
Mississippi Gulf Coast
Community College
10298 Express Drive
Gulfport, MS 39503
228-897-4379
judith.benvenutti@mgccc.edu
Ms. Rilla Jones
Northeast Mississippi
Community College
101 Cunningham Boulevard
Booneville, MS 38829
662-720-7388
rcjones@nemcc.edu
Ms. Jere Herrington
Northwest Mississippi
Community College
4975 Highway 51 North
662-562-3222
jherrington@northwestms.edu or
kperkins@northwestms.edu
Dr. Barbara Gandy
Pearl River Community College
101 Hwy 11 North
Poplarville, MS 39470
601-403-1267
bgandy@prcc.edu
Ms. Alicia Shows
Southwest Mississippi
Community College
1156 College Drive
Summit, MS 39666
601-276-3706
showsa@smcc.edu
OR YOU MAY CONTACT:
Ms. Bonnie Carew
Director, Rural Medical Scholars Program
Mississippi State University Extension Service
Box 9647
Miss. State, MS 39762
662-325-1321
bcarew@ext.msstate.edu
Mississippi State University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation or group affiliation, age, disability, or veteran status.
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