Stepping Up Minoring Recruitment; NIH Grant Funds School of Medicine's Effort to Educate Minority Researchers
Temple UniversityThe "diversity funding drought" ends this summer at Temple University School of Medicine thanks to a catchy acronym and the perseverance of Raul DeLa Cadena, MD. He's director of Step Up, a new program starting this summer. Step Up gives twelve selected minority students, who are interested in a health profession, their first "taste" of medicine, including an introduction to the world of research.