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NXT GEN MED: A Transformative STEM Program

Saturday, November 5, 2022

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Location: Potomac V&VI

Co-Presenter(s)

Andrew M. Petzold (he/him/his)

Associate Professor
University of Minnesota Rochester
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Jeffrey Ratliff-Crain (he/him/his)

Professor
University of Minnesota Rochester
Rochester, Minnesota, United States

Co-Author(s)

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Jabra Kawas

Director of Internships & Strategic Partnerships
University of Minnesota Rochester, United States

Co-Presenter(s)

Bridget Tetteh-Batsa (she/her/hers)

Student Success Coach
University of Minnesota Rochester
ROCHESTER, Minnesota, United States

The NXT GEN MED program at the University of Minnesota Rochester represents an approach to solving the problems of increasing student debt, workforce readiness, and success of traditionally underrepresented students in STEM fields. We will describe efforts to develop an accelerated program that integrates workforce readiness through competency-based evaluation of students alongside real-world internships. These attributes have been amalgamated within a compressed faculty-developed curriculum that allows students to graduate with a bachelor of science in health science following seven semesters, thus incurring less debt while still being workforce ready and better equipped to describe the skills they have gained during their schooling.