Outreach - Undergraduate
WWAMI medical students have always had a heart for outreach. Every year we are impressed with the level of outside commitment our students take on in addition to their heavy course load.
Undergraduate Partnerships - WWAMI students work with undergraduate pre-medical student clubs and often take pre-meds with them to help with presentations to high school students.
Undergraduate Programs - The Idaho WWAMI office works with the Boise Clinical Office and the Idaho Association of Family Physicians to set up shadowing experiences with doctors in pre-medical students' hometowns. A couple of the undergrads were also connected with our medical students while they were participating in R/UOP. This experience "breaks the ice" and sets up the potential for mentoring relationships, as well as future shadowing experiences during school breaks that will enhance the student's application for medical school.
In another summer program, we have placed undergraduate pre-medical students in a two week shadowing experience at the Family Practice Residency of Idaho in Boise and the ISU Family Practice Residency in Pocatello. Each student gained an appreciation for the scope of family practice and made valuable contacts with people who are traveling the path on which these students hope to follow.