Middle School & High School Pathways
Dell Med’s pathway programs for middle school and high school students provide firsthand engagement with health sciences and health professions.
Offerings
The Future Health Leader Award is awarded to third-, fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade student projects focused on health. Dell Med staff, faculty and students serve as judges for the award.
The Health Career Collaborative is a national program that aims to connect medical students with high school students from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine. For this grant-funded program, Dell Med students to go Travis High School once a week in the spring semester to deliver a health-sciences-based curriculum. At the end of the semester, the high school students present their projects at Dell Med.
Led by The University of Texas at Austin Cancer Research Center, the Summer Healthcare Experience in Oncology aims to empower high school student leaders with experiences, activities and discussions that introduce them to the incredible breadth of career and leadership opportunities in the field of oncology.