Established and emerging Pathway Programs

Through the Morehouse School of Medicine

Since 1981, the Morehouse School of Medicine has steadily developed an impressive range of programs that provide exposure and support in the STEM and health professions arena to students from pre-K to medical school levels. Today, this range includes:

• Master of Science in Medical Sciences (MSMS) Degree — an academic enhancement program designed for students, particularly those who are underrepresented in medicine, pursuing careers in medicine, within a broad curriculum of biomedical and public health sciences. The program additionally works to improve MCAT performance as students work toward submitting successful applications to schools of medicine.
• Tuskegee Airmen Global Academy — offering a range of STEAM enrichment programs for students in elementary through high school levels, in partnership with Morehouse School of Medicine as well as local and national supporters, in which students are mentored in academic achievement, life skills, self-efficacy, and critical thinking/problem-solving skills as they gain exposure to bioscience and health professions.
• Health Careers Opportunity Program Academy — providing instruction, mentoring, tutoring, and other educational support for high school, college, and medical school students pursuing or interested in health careers and are economically and educationally disadvantaged. 
• Community Health Worker Program — a health careers pipeline and mentorship for underserved high school students and young adults that promotes the Community Health Worker field with health education and health literacy in schools and community. 
• First Look — an annual event in which Morehouse medical and graduate students, faculty, and admissions staff provide support, encouragement, and advice on the process of medical school admission and matriculation to undergraduate students who are underrepresented in medicine. 
• First Look: Health TEAM (Teaching Exposing And Mentoring — an event similar to First Look, but tailored to high school students.
• Undergraduate Health Sciences Academy — offering an enhanced academic environment to increase retention of STEM majors and increase on-time graduation rate in the Atlanta University Center Consortium for students who are underrepresented in medicine.
• Academically Prepared for EXcellence (APEX) — a post-undergraduate summer program for students underrepresented in medicine who have completed a bachelor’s degree and demonstrated potential to pursue a career in medicine, but been unsuccessful in previous attempts to apply to medical school.

…and beyond

Expanding this multi-faceted approach to communities beyond Atlanta, in alignment with undergraduate and graduate medical education sites, the More in Common Alliance has been making outreach, holding discussions, and hosting events with a number of promising institutions and organizations, including:

• The Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy
• The Chattanooga Preparatory School, a boys’ school 
• Kentucky State University, a historically black college in Lexington
• The Marvin Williams Recreation Center in Bremerton, Washington 
• The Why Not You Academy, a Seattle-area charter high school founded by Russell Wilson and Ciara
• UTOPIA United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance, a grassroots community organization in Washington
• The Washington State Opportunity Scholars Program
• Build 2 Lead, a community not-for-profit offering mentorship in Seattle area schools