Friday, January 11, 1974
THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Page Seven
THE SEARCH FOR HEALTH
« REPOm FROM
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
UIHESOR, MRRTIRNO
HEALTH CAREERS
Third of a four-part series
Steady Gains Made
by Minorities
Transporting 30 Black col
lege students over 100 miles in
Mississippi to receive training
is one way the U.S. Department
of Health, Education, and Wel
fare (HEW) is moving more
minority students down the
road to health careers. This
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daily migration is part of HOP,
(Training Health Occupation
Potentials) at Missisippi Valley
State College at Itta Bena, an
HEW project attempting to al
leviate the scarcity of minorities
in health occupations.
The project prepares students
for health careers and gradu
ates for practice in disadvan
taged areas. Emphasis is on
pharmacy, medicine, dentistry,
veterinary medicine, public
health, nursing, medical tech
nology, dental hygiene, physical
therapy, and sanitation.
Of 130 HOP students, 30 are
bused daily, over 100 miles to
receive tutoring, summer ses
sions and special training, if
they have completed academic
requirements but need special
assistance to enter health pro
fessions schools. Such efforts
are being attempted to aid sev
eral minorities.
While, one of every 560
white Americans becomes a
physician; among Blacks, it is
one in 3,800. In 1970, when
Blacks numbered 11 percent of
the nation’s population, only
2.2 percent of the nation’s
physicians were Black. Cur-'
rently there are only 43 known
Indian physicians in the entire
United States and only six
known Indian dentists;'in fact,
few Indians anywhere in the
health professions.
Now, HEW has programs
trying unusual approaches to
health manpower training for
to increase minorities in health
professions. AFNA’s project
has four phases.
Phase I tries to create
awareness of health careers and
recruit minority high school
students to the health profes
sions.
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GLOBAL PROJECT . . . Scientist Elmer Christensen (right)
points to last photographic piece that completed the first photo-
mosaic globe of Mars in unique planetary Jigsaw assembled at
Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Looking on is Edwin (Ted)
Pounder, manager of the Mariner 9 Mars project at JPL. The 4-
foot globe — one of the three Martian photospheres being pain
stakingly fashioned at JPL — was mapped entirely from more
than 1,500 pictures returned by Mariner 9 from the Spacecraft’s
orbit around Mars. The first globe will be on display at the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington,
D.C. The 6-foot globe in the background will be on display later
this year at JPL.
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minority groups. Its office of
Health Manpower Opportunity,
Bureau of Health Resources
Development awarded 42 grants
totaling over $5 million to
schools to increase minority
members in health professions.
Harvard is one school that
received a grant to help raise
the proportion of minorities in
the health professions. Harvard
Health Careers Summer Pro
gram admitted 150 minority
students this year for tutoring,
training in hospitals, and
formal pre-med classwork. The
students include 90 Blacks, 20
Chicanos, 20 Puerto Ricans,^
and 20 Indians. Participating
are disadvantaged minority stu
dents attending minority col
leges, who are aiming for
specific health occupations. One
element in selecting the stu
dents is an essay they submit
on their interest in health oc
cupations.
The American Foundation
for Negro Affairs (AFNA), a
nonprofit organization in PUl-
adelphia, (Pa.) received a
grant to help initiate a program
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