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The HSHPS/OMH Fellowship Program is a part of a cooperative agreement between Hispanic-Serving Health Professions Schools (HSHPS) and the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health (OMH). The HSHPS/OMH Fellowship Program was created in 1999 “…to identify and develop the skills of a select group of recently graduated Hispanic resident physicians and post-doctoral health professionals who aspire to become medical faculty and researchers.”
During the one-year program, participants conduct research on specific Hispanic health disparities, acquire faculty development skills, participate in cultural competency curriculum development, obtain leadership skills, participate on hospital and medical school committees, and are mentored by senior faculty. Each fellow is based at his/her home institution and periodically attends off-site meetings, seminars, and trainings. In addition to increasing research efforts among the fellows, it is fully anticipated that each class of trainees will become faculty, serve a vital role in the academic leadership of medical schools, and become role models for future Hispanic medical students.
2003 Fellow from the
University of New Mexico School of Medicine:
“I am very grateful to Hispanic Serving Health Professions Schools. I am now solidly on my way toward my new career as a researcher, and I will obtain faculty status. I am certain without the assistance of the HSHPS fellowship this would not have been possible."
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