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Important Dates
SMDEP Application Opens: November 1, 2008

Early application strongly encouraged!

SMDEP Travel Scholarship:

Application Available: January 2009

SMDEP Outreach Events

Staff from SMDEP's National Program Office attend national conferences to recruit students. We invite you to stop by our booth to learn more about the program. More >>


Summer Medical and Dental Education Program (SMDEP) is a FREE (full tuition, housing, and meals) six-week summer academic enrichment program that offers freshman and sophomore college students intensive and personalized medical and dental school preparation. More >>

Program Offerings Include:

  • Academic enrichment in the basic sciences (organic chemistry, physics, biology) and pre-calculus/calculus
  • Career development
  • Learning-skills seminar
  • Limited clinical exposure
  • A financial-planning workshop

 
Program Sites:

Saying

"It reinforced my decision to become a physician and provided me even more motivation to pursue a career in medicine."
—Huy Mai, Community College of S. Nevada

"It verified the fact that dentistry is the best field for my skills and aspirations. The shadowing and the classes are everything that I had hoped for."
—Ashley Gunnell, Alice Lloyd College

"It was a life-changing experience. I saw the better things in life and had a great time."
—Sandra Mardonovich, Cerritos College


 Alumni

 

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

 SMDEP is a national program funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
with direction and technical assistance provided by
The Association of American Medical Colleges and The American Dental Education Association.