Perceived Success After Participation in the Summer Health Professions Education Program.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The number of active health care professionals has not kept pace with the increasing number of minoritized individuals in the US. The Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP) was developed to alleviate this underrepresentation in the health workforce.

Objective

To evaluate students' changes in perceived barriers and motivators for entering and succeeding in professional school after SHPEP participation.

Design, setting, and participants

For this cohort study, anonymous electronic surveys were sent to the 2017 to 2021 SHPEP participants at an academic health center at a large university in the southern US. Participants were first- and second-year undergraduates interested in the health professions and enrolled in the SHPEP. Program participants we

SUBMITTER: Xirau-Probert P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10818219 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature