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9 Approaches from Philanthropy
9 Approaches from Philanthropy
Pages 79-86
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(Blumenthal) • Several ideas to challenge traditional thinking about pipeline programs include increasing partnerships with community colleges, more research on the role of diversity in improving the medical education experience of all students, and develop ing a language that engages a broader section of the population and builds relationships rather than divisiveness.
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As the program officer responsible for the Fund's portfolios on science education and diversity in science, Mays oversees approximately 14 percent of the Fund's grant making. The mission of the Diversity in Science portfolio is "to increase the number of underrepresented minority scientists within the biomedical and medical research and education community through career enrichment and mentoring support," he said.
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This stakeholder group also developed STEM Implementation Rubrics to guide schools to implement quality STEM programs. As a further resource, the SMT Center hosts the North Carolina STEM Learning Network, a partnership with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, the Community College System, independent colleges and universities in the state, and others, where educators throughout the state can find and share programs and opportunities related to STEM education.10 7 For more information on the BWF Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program, see https:// www.bwfund.org/grant-programs/diversity-science/graduate-diversity-enrichment- program (accessed March 12, 2019)
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Finally, in 1996, the Fund established the Mongan Fellowship in Minority Health Policy. As described in detail in the session on current medical pipeline strategies, Blumenthal emphasized that the Fellowship is especially committed to "recruiting and cultivating physicians who are intent on being leaders in the promotion of minority health and the interest of disadvantaged populations." He elaborated that fellowship alumni have gone on to become not only leaders in academia, but also the public sector, with program graduates becoming directors of state and local health departments.
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and cross-national work that examines "things that we can import to the United States that may be useful for our delivery system." ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION John Lumpkin, M.D., M.P.H. Senior Vice President Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Lumpkin began his presentation by proposing a new way of thinking about the medical education pipeline.
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For high school students, RWJF supports the Forward Promise program focusing on at-risk youth in high school that "empowers boys and young men of color to heal, to grow, and to thrive and to enter college and be ready to be successful as potential candidates to go on to medical school and to go into the sciences."15 Lumpkin also described a past program, the Health Professions Partnership Initiative, that partnered medical schools with inner-city high schools. He described the lesson learned from this initiative that it required commitment from the top.
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At the undergraduate level, Lumpkin described the Summer Medical Professions Education Program, which exposes rising sophomores to the health sciences and provides math and science enrichment.16 At the graduate level, RWJF supports a new program called the Health Policy Research Scholars, which provides financial support, education, and leadership for underrepresented minority doctoral students in nonclinical health fields.17 Finally, Lumpkin described the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program, which provides research funding and a stipend to historically disadvantaged physicians, dentists, and nurses to encourage and foster their academic and professional development and to increase the number of health professionals from disadvantaged backgrounds who achieve senior rank in academic medicine, dentistry, and nursing.18 In closing, Lumpkin offered several ideas to challenge the traditional thinking about pipeline programs. First, he proposed increasing partnerships with community colleges.
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Mays echoed this challenge, and offered a two-stage approach to giving -- first, a phase where a philanthropic organization needs to be able to take risks on initial investments, and second, only moving to support sustainability if those early programs are shown to be effective. 19 Prothrow-Stith is dean of the College of Medicine at Charles R
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