Meharry B.S/M.D. SOM Center of Excellence

BS/MD Summer Enrichment Program

The intent of the Meharry SOM’s BS/MD Program is to develop a student with excellent academic credentials, competitive MCAT scores, and the personal, professional, leadership, and psychological attributes to be highly competitive for medical school admission and provide a foundation for training to be a great physician.

Meharry Medical College (MMC) is one of four Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that are specifically designated in statute to receive Centers of Excellence (COE) Program awards under Public Health Service Act (PHSA) section 736(c)(2).

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About Meharry

Founded in 1876, MMC is the largest private, historically black health science center in the US and a top producer of African American physicians. Currently, only 6.9% of medical school enrollees in the U.S. are African American. The primary mission of Meharry Medical College is elimination of health disparities through deployment of a culturally competent workforce that can adapt to the population’s changing health care needs and provide the highest quality of health care to all.

The medical school proposes strategies addressing solutions to health disparities by increasing the African American physician workforce. This COE addresses the need to recruit and train African American students interested in medicine, while recruiting and retaining African American faculty, who are academically involved in innovative medical education and teaching.

Through its role as a Center of Excellence, Meharry Medical College continues as a leader in minority health education, ever-expanding the curriculum to prepare future physicians to be more effective with an increasingly diverse patient population.

Students majoring in biological sciences or chemistry are invited to participate in the BS/MD Summer Enrichment Program at Meharry Medical College (MMC). Students are selected during the second semester of their first year in undergraduate school by the Site Coordinator, Mr. Michael Harper.

The six-week summer enrichment program, held on the campus of Meharry Medical College, consists of three sequential levels.

Program selection criteria include:

• African American/Black students
• US citizen or permanent resident
• Overall and science GPA of 3.25
• Two letters of recommendation from professors and/or advisors
• Submit official transcript with seal
• Submit 1–2-page essay.