Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP)

• Has received or will receive a baccalaureate degree prior to June 1, 2024
• Must be entering or attending a health professional school (i.e. dentistry, medicine, nursing, or pharmacy) and/or taking a gap with the intention of attending a health professional school
• Able to support the program for the full duration
• Enthusiast about mentoring and supporting scholars and the SHPEP Program

Preferred Experience (consideration is still given to those without preferred experience)

• Entering or finishing the first year of health professional school
• Participant of a summer program (i.e. SHPEP/SMDEP, MCAT-DAT, PEPP, Gear Up, etc.)

Student Development Assistant Information – Summer of 2025

The 2025 Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP) will be a six-week hybrid program that supports 80 pre-health scholars interested in dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and medicine. The primary goal of SHPEP is to strengthen the academic proficiency and career development of students and prepare them for a successful application and matriculation to health professions schools. The Student Development Assistants (SDAs) will play a vital role in helping to obtain the aforementioned goals, and the overall success and support of the program and participants.

Student Development Assistants must be willing to serve as a role model, mentor, and advisor to student participants. The SDA role/team serves as an imperative piece of the successful implementation of SHPEP programming and scholar experience.

Below you will find the SDA Interest Form link and the detailed list of duties. The SDA selection process will end in February 2025.

Application Link: https://forms.office.com/r/Tc3Zt1Cy39

• Serve as the first point of contact for participants, i.e., manage scholar GroupMe, disseminate information, assist with connecting scholars to available resources, etc.
• Track scholar attendance during all sessions and track attendance during bus transportation
• Reach out to scholars if they are late or absent from a session and/or designated meeting time
• Assist scholars with course content, technical challenges, and responding to scholar requests
• Serve as chaperones on weekend activities, service events, bus rides, etc.
• Enforce program rules/regulations/restrictions

• Support and foster relationships between scholars within the cohort and the SDA team
• Help supervise, tutor, and mentor a group of ten scholars through the cluster system
• Be willing to talk about your journey to your health professional program
• Attend all programmatic components
• Serve as tutors during scheduled group study times and ensure scholars understand information learned during classes (it is critical for SDAs to attend classes with the scholars)

• Plan social activities for participants, and lead at least one small group activity per week
• Have icebreakers or activities ready when presenters cancel or running late
• Suggest and assist with optional programming initiatives (i.e., mock interviews, volunteer opportunities, study session, etc.)

• Assist with scholar registration, check in and out
• Monitor participants to check for health issues; transport to emergency/urgent care centers if needed
• Serve in an on-call rotation
• Report scholar misconduct
• Communicate with the SHPEP Leadership team when/if issues arise
• Assist with orientation activities and course content
• Help support scholars in their engagement in the program
• Any other duties the SHPEP Leadership team deems would be beneficial to add to help with the impact and integrity of the program
• Other duties as assigned