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VOLUME 19, NUMBER 28
July 21, 1972
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Enrichment Program Enters Third Year
Minority Students Participate in SEEP
SEEP, Duke University's "Summer
Educational Enrichment Program" for
minority students, is currently in its 3rd
years of existence and its function is to
"expand admissions opportunities to
premedical minority group students."
This program is confined to the Duke
Medical Center and is under the
sponsorship of the Josiah Macy
Foundation, Duke University, the United
Negro College Fund and work-study
funds from participating colleges.
The coordinator of the program is Dr.
Melvyn Lieberman, assistant professor of
physiology, and the student coordinator
is Kermit Simrel, a third-year Duke
Medical student, v\/ho is in charge of
organizing the clinical aspects of the
program. This year 10 students from nine
universities are enrolled in the program.
There are eight men: Ronald Conoley,
(Davidson), Arthur Glover, (Hampton),
Charles Harper, (A&T State), Larry
Harris, (Yale), Benjamin Page, (N. C.
State), Eric Patterson, (Talladega),
Lorenzo Royal, (Tuskegee), and Bertram
Walls, (A&T State); and two women:
Roberta Gray (Lemoyne-Owens) and
Dorothy Rhodes (Livingstone).
The students, all rising seniors with
pre-medical training, are residents and/or
university students from southeastern
states. They are selected on the basis of
recommendations from the pre-medical
advisors of their respective colleges who
consider such factors as a student's
financial means and intellectual
capabilities in competing with peers for
admission to medical school.
For the first time since the
establishment of the program in 1970,
the final decision in the selection of the
students has been given to an Advisory
Off TECHNIQUE—Head Nurse Joyce Fletcher (left) in ENT explains to a group of
students in SEEP the function and organization of the operating room. The observant
students are, from left to right, Charles Harp>er, Lorenzo Royal, Roberta Gray, Eric
Patterson and Dorothy Rhodes, (staff photo)
Committee at Duke who selected, this
year, 10 students from approximately 30
applications.
The summer program is 10 weeks and
the first half is devoted to lectures in
anatomy, physiology, microbiology and
immunology. Conferences and seminar’
discussions are led by Dr. Jacquelyne J.
Jackson, associate professor of medical
sociology and psychiatry, on "Black
Roles and Black Identities." One day a
week is devoted to clinical lectures and
rounds in which the students visit most of
the departments in medicine.
Also included in the first half of the
program are seminars exposing the
students to medical career opportunities,
application procedures, available financial
aid for minority students, community
medicine and medical student activities.
Among the various visiting
representatives of opportunity programs
was the assistant project director from
"Project 75." "Project 75" is a program
funded, since 1970, by the Office of
Economic Opportunity whose chief goal
is "the enrollment of a minimum of 12%
minority students in U.S. medical schools
by 1975."
The second half of Duke's summer
enrichment program focuses on various
research experiences in which the
students work in different labs with
faculty members and staff. At the end of
this half the students present, in a
symposium, written and oral reports of
their research experiences. The
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