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ALASKA PRE-MED SUMMIT

WWAMI - Alaska's Medical School and the UAA University Honors College presented the third annual Alaska PreMed Summit on Saturday, March 29, 2008. The PreMed Summit was held in UAA's Rasmuson Hall and was also offered, via live videoconference, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Alaska Southeast. More than two hundred participants, speakers, and volunteers attended the event statewide.

The PreMed Summit is intended to provide information to anyone wanting to learn more about the process of becoming a physician. It is especially helpful for undergraduate and high school students, but high school counselors, college advisors, and parents are also welcome to attend.

Participants of the 2008 Alaska PreMed Summit received the opportunity to:

The special focus of the 2008 Alaska PreMed Summit was on the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). Steven Barkley of the MCAT Division of the Association of American Medical Colleges discussed "The New MCAT."

PowerPoint Presentations from the 2008 Alaska PreMed Summit:

Medical Education 101 and Overview of WWAMI--Alaska's Medical School
Presented by: Dennis Valenzeno, Ph.D.
Director, UAA WWAMI Biomedical Program

Introduction to the MCAT
Presented by: Steven Barkley
Director, MCAT Technology & Program Development

Alaska WWAMI Thanks the Generous Sponsors
of the 2008 Alaska PreMed Summit!


Hippocrates Level

Galen Level

Additional Sponsors



PreMed Summit Participants
Alaska PreMed Summit
Alaska PreMed Summit
Alaska PreMed Summit Participants

 


2007 PowerPoint Presentations:


Norris on Medical Education
Noecker on Financing Medical Education




Read the KTUU Channel 2 Report on the 2006 Alaska PreMed Summit
View the Slide Show of the 2006 Alaska PreMed Summit


 

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