HEALTHCARE ACADEMIC AND CAREER OPPORTUNITIES General Health Professions
ExploreHealthCareers.org features information about nearly 90 health careers.
www.ExploreHealthCareers.org
American Association of Medical Colleges:
AspiringDocs.org
http://www.AspiringDocs.org Postbaccalaureate premedical programs
http://services.aamc.org/postbac/
Healthcare Summer Enrichment Programs Deadlines are usually the January or February before the summer program begins—no exceptions.
College Students
Medical and Dental Programs:
http://www.smdep.org/apply.htm Programs by region:
http://services.aamc.org/summerprograms/ Internship in Biology:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/ug/intern.html
High School Students Explore Health Careers
http://www.explorehealthcareers.org/en/Article.183.aspx Enrichment Programs
http://www.venturescholar.org/hs/enrichment.html Biomedical Sciences
http://www.training.nih.gov/student/sip/info.asp
Examination Preparation Princeton Review
http://princetonreview.com/default.aspx?uidbadge= ExamKrackers.com
http://www.examkrackers.com/ Kaplan.com
http://www.kaplan.com/pages/default.aspx
Financial Aid Information Paying for School
http://explorehealthcareers.org/en/Page.PayingForSchool.aspx Free Assistance Program
http://www.aamc.org/students/applying/fap/ Scholarships, Award, Financial Aid
http://aamc.org/students/minorities/scholarships.htm FinAid.org
http://www.finaid.org/
Information for Incoming Medical Students Careers in Medicine Timeline
http://aamc.org/students/cim/cimtimeline.htm Online Career Resources
http://aamc.org/students/cim/careerplanning.htm
Scholarship Opportunities Collegiate Inventors Competition
http://www.invent.org/collegiate/ Institute for Brand Leadership
http://www.instituteforbrandleadership.org/IBLEssayContest- 2002Rules.htm
Gates Millennium Scholarships
https://nominations.gmsp.org/GMSP_App/ U.S. Department of Agriculture
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/career_opportunities/student_ programs.shtml
National Service Scholarship
http://www.nationalservice.org/scholarships Microsoft Scholarship Program
https://careers.microsoft.com/careers/en/us/collegescholarship.aspx ScienceNet
http://www.cse.emory.edu/sciencenet/undergrad/scholarships.html Who Has Been Hired
There may be a bright future for STEM students, but there is a lot of room for improvement when it comes to employing African Americans in research science. The Bureau of Labor Statistics employment by occupation report shows low repre-
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For STEM Grads It’s Sunny Even When It Rains In July, a National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) study reported that the average starting salary offer to Class of 2010 graduates, of around $48,661, was down 1.3 per- cent compared to the average posted last year at the same time by the Class of 2009. That’s not great news, unless you are a STEM major inter- ested in research science.
The average starting salary for the information technology grads that will keep all the data straight under Obama’s plan is $55,084. Not bad until compared to computer science majors who maintain server farms everywhere from the Department of Health and Human Services to public and private hospitals, as well as the National Institutes of Health. They are making $61,112.
NACE says “engineering majors have consistently posted increases to their average salary offers, and seemingly have been immune to negative economic effects,” and it shows. Chemical engineering graduates, who could be doing research at places including the Mayo Clinic or the Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies received an average offer of $65,628. There were a few dips. NACE reports that, “Computer en- gineering graduates saw the biggest decrease in the group: Their average offer fell 2.9 percent to $59,917. Electrical engineering graduates’ average salary offer dropped 1.2 percent to $59,381, and the average offer to mechanical engineering graduates dipped less than 1 percent to $58,457.” In this down economy, the salaries, and job prospects of those degree holders, when considered objectively, do not warrant complaints.
Of research scientists, physicians are some of the high-
est paid. The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) produces a nationally recognized compensation survey and the following was gleaned from the 2009 report. Physicians in fam- ily medicine have a starting salary of $144,990 and the median salary was $197,655. If obstetrics is added to a family physi- cian’s shingle, the starting and median salaries were respectively, $145,513 and $202,047. Geriatric specialists may earn $157,994 initially and the median salary was $211,425. General surgery pays $260,000 at the start and $340,000 is the median salary.
Research Science may create about 3.6 million new jobs by 2014.
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