Kate de Medeiros, Suzanne Kunkel, Lei Yu
The AgeSmart Inventory©: A Multifaceted Tool to Understand Age Bias
Gerontology & geriatric medicine
given need diverse health care workforce efforts must made early education support underrepresented minorities medicine science technology engineering mathematics stem fields eyes future program introduces underrepresented minority 8th grade students science medicine via interactive sciencebased programming mentorship medical graduate students program impact evaluated using pre postprogram surveys 25 participating students 24 22 responded pre postprogram surveys respectively students showed strong interest science concepts stem careers high positively correlated statistically similar pre postprogram survey responses eyes future program wellreceived represents step towards addressing barriers stem careers faced underrepresented minority students