KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — The Office of Diversity and Inclusiveness at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMed) is partnering with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) for a virtual event in June.
Officials say this event will highlight how former student-athletes have adapted their skills in sports to become competitive healthcare professionals off the field.
The 2021 WMed and AAMC High School and College Student-Athlete Medicine and Healthcare Career Conference is scheduled for June 2-3, 2021.
The theme of the conference, “Helping Student Athletes Transition from an Athletic Team to a Healthcare Professional Team,” will focus awareness on how former student-athletes have adapted their athletic skills to become competitive pre-medical students, as well as medical students, healthcare professionals, physicians and practitioners.
Officials say the event is open to a wide range of students, from rising eighth graders to college seniors.
During the two-day conference, informative sessions will be held each day from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and there will be keynote addresses from Abdullah Hasan Pratt, MD, assistant professor and an Emergency Medicine physician at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
The event will also host Erica Tukiainen, MD, MPH, junior faculty in the Department of Family Medicine at the Los Angeles Medical Center at Kaiser Permanente.
The conference will also feature a $50 Amazon gift card giveaway, one mega prize giveaway each day, guest DJs spinning music between each session and during a mixer event.
In addition, the first 200 people to register will receive a $25 Grubhub lunch voucher.
For more information on the event and how to register, click here.
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