Scholarship

I am writing to inform you of a potential summer opportunity for undergraduate students with an interest in Native American health issues, as well as an interest in pursuing graduate studies in medicine (either MD or PhD programs). We run a program at Harvard Medical School called the Four Directions Summer Research Program. The goal of our program is to introduce talented young students to the exciting world of medicine, and to provide them with the necessary tools to take the next step in their careers. The students each take on their own research project (under the supervision of HMS faculty), as well as participate in weekly seminars geared towards informing the students about potential careers in medicine as well as practical issues surrounding the application process. The summer of 2005 will mark the 12th year that we have been running this program.
More practical issues related to students include:

• They will stay at the Harvard Medical School dormitory for the 8 week summer program
• Living stipends are provided
  

There is more information located on our website, including application materials:
www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/diversity/fdsrpintro.html

I hope that you will be able to distribute this information to any students that you feel would be interested. I would also love to send you a packet of materials on the program if you can


Tom Sequist, MD
Harvard