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Programs > Diversity > Health Careers Opportunity Program >FY 2002 Grantees: LouisianaLOUISIANA
STATE UNIVERSITY Shirley
M. Roberson, M.S. Comprehensive Health Careers Opportunity Program Louisiana State University Medical Center at Shreveport (LSUMC-S) is one of three medical schools located in the state and the only medical school located in north Louisiana. In 1963, the Shreveport Medical Society appointed an ad hoc committee to study the need for the development of a medical school in Shreveport. The findings of this group demonstrated the need for a new teaching facility in Shreveport. The LSUMC-S was established by an Act of the Louisiana Legislature in June 1965 and became a component of the Louisiana State University System. The LSUMC-S hospital has 650 teaching beds, as well as 16 specialty and subspecialty outpatient clinics where students train. Since its establishment, the medical center continues to be a major health care provider for the African American, Hispanic, and other disadvantaged citizens of Shreveport and surrounding areas. Sixty-four percent of the patients treated at LSUMC-S are African Americans; 2% Hispanics; 1% Asians; 32% Whites and 1% others. Louisiana has a total of 9,976 practicing physicians, of which 500, or 5% are African Americans. According to a recent census report African Americans and Hispanic American citizens constitute 35% of the population of Louisiana (33% African American and 2% Hispanic American). The LSUMC-S proposes a comprehensive approach through its ”Partnerships in Science Education Pipeline” program. To demonstrate its commitment to increase the enrollment of minority/disadvantaged students, LSUMC-S has forged partnership linkages in the form of contractual or articulation agreements with the Caddo Parish School System, the Sci-Port Discovery Center, the Biomedical Research Foundation and Louisiana State University Shreveport. This comprehensive strategy encompasses the following strategies: 1) development of a science pipeline for K-16 that provides supplemental summer enrichment programs or research activities to pre-college/college students; thereby, creating a larger applicant pool of well-prepared students for entry into medical school or health care careers; 2) Utilization of an established network of science teachers, pre-medical advisors and biology faculty to assist in the identification and selection of minority/disadvantaged students, grades K-16, who possess an aptitude for science or an interest in medicine as program participants; 3) LSUMC-S faculty, medical students and teachers will be utilized as academic, career, and financial aid counselors who will distribute grade and age appropriate program information; 4) Twenty-five disadvantaged students at the undergraduate level will be selected to participate in the Educational Familiarization Program which offers MCAT prep courses utilizing Cambridge materials; 5) Fifteen incoming minority/disadvantaged students will be selected to participate in a Pre-Matriculation program which offers courses in Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, and Study Skills. The academic progress of these students will be monitored throughout the first and second year to determine the effectiveness of this intervention. LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL
OF MEDICINE-NEW ORLEANS Comprehensive Health Careers Opportunity Program Louisiana State University School of Medicine (LSUSOM) was established in New Orleans adjacent to Charity Hospital of Louisiana. The School is now in its sixty-eighth year of education, research, and service to the public. The state of Louisiana’s population is characterized by high poverty and unemployment levels; an increasingly young minority population; a shift toward urbanization; and a low educational attainment. The 1990 census shows the population as 30.8% Black, 67.3% White, 0.4% American Indian, 0.9% Asian and 2.2% Hispanic. Approximately 30% of the population remains in rural areas and about 30% of the population live in Manpower Shortage Areas (MSA) of more than one million. Louisiana ranked 47th nationally in access to primary care practitioners in 1994, with 20.2% of state residents lacking such access. The LSUSOM has developed the “InRoads” program objectives to aim for early identification, nurturing and monitoring of 300 K-12 students and 250 college students. Preliminary education objectives focus on fostering, developing, and expanding the academic preparedness of 150 senior high school students and 30 middle high students. Facilitating entry objectives will enhance the competitiveness and preparation of 300 college students and 75 LSUSOM accepted medical students. Counseling and retention objectives will provide a full spectrum of counseling, retention, and academic support services in order to maintain the University’s 93% retention rate and 80% USMLE passage rate for disadvantaged students. Financial aid objectives will distribute and explain financial aid information and provide scholarship support to eligible disadvantaged medical students. The “InRoads” program offers a range of structured activities such as: 1) recruitment activities developed for K-12 Science Clubs, participation in Xavier’s high school summer programs, premedical advisor workshops, and recruitment visits and tours of LSUMC; 2) preliminary education activities are Science Enrichment Programs for 7th graders, an after-school science, math, and test-taking skill development program; 3) facilitating entry activities include medical school admission counseling, mock interview practice sessions, admission seminar, and dissemination of information regarding internships and preceptorships at LSUSOM, MCAT reviews, and an 8-week Prematriculation Program, given to newly accepted students to LSUSOM, that includes a Cultural Competency Workshop and a Primary Care Shadowing Program. Formal educational partnerships have been formed with New Orleans Public School System (NOPS), McMain Secondary School, Dillard University, Southern Universities in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, and Xavier University; the community physicians of the Louisiana State Medical Association; and all Health Professions Schools of LSUMC. XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANACOLLEGE
OF PHARMACY Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA) is a historically Black, Catholic university located in the approximate geographic center of New Orleans. The University is composed of a College of Arts and Sciences, which offers baccalaureate degrees in 29 areas, a College of Pharmacy, which offers the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.), and a Graduate School, which offers master degrees in education and nurse anesthesiology. The University has a long-term commitment to the education and training of disadvantaged students. Xavier University has an excellent track record at helping disadvantaged students succeed in the health professions. To date Xavier has ranked number one nationally both in placing African Americans into medical school and number one in placing African Americans into Pharmacy for each of the past five years. Americans from disadvantaged backgrounds receive poorer health care (on the average) than the remainder of the nation’s citizens. The most effective way of correcting this inequity would be to increase the number of persons from disadvantaged backgrounds in becoming health professionals. To accomplish this, Xavier University of New Orleans proposes a comprehensive approach through its ‘Educational Pathway to the Health Professions” program. This includes a partnership with the university’s College of Arts and Sciences, College of Pharmacy, EXCELth, Inc., and Healthcare Consortium. The Educational Pathway to the Health Professions at Xavier University starts with the recruitment of students from disadvantaged backgrounds who indicate an interest in Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, Dentistry, Veterinary Medicine, Optometry, Podiatry, Public Health, or Health Care Administration. The University is proposing the following strategies: 1) an intensive six-week, structured, problem-solving based summer program for 80 disadvantaged students who are entering the Senior year in high school and are interested in the health sciences; 2) two-three week preparatory summer programs (MathStar, BioStar, and ChemStar) for students grade 7-10; 3) provide information about the health professions and academic reinforcement to disadvantaged students interested in the health sciences; 4) facilitate the entry of a minimum 100 students from XU per year into health professions schools to prepare for and apply to such schools; 5) pre-pharmacy tutorial assistance; 6) facilitate the entry of students into XU’s College of Pharmacy; 7) provide a pre-matriculation summer program each year to students that have been accepted to XU’s College of Pharmacy as first-year students; 8) provide academic counseling as to course sequencing, course load, remediation, and tutorial assistance to disadvantaged students enrolled in XU’s College of Pharmacy; 9) Publicize existing sources of financial aid to all students from disadvantaged background in XU’s HCOP Program and to other students who are under consideration for addition to the program in each year of the grant period.
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