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2025 PROGRAM ACCEPTANCES ANNOUNCED 1/14/25.

PDHS 2025 Applications Close January 6th, 2025

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High School Juniors & Seniors.

Interested in learning more about the pathway to a career in medicine or healthcare and gaining meaningful experiences.

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Pipeline Dreams: High School

Program Overview

Pipeline Dreams: High School is 12-week hybrid program engineered to empower high school juniors and seniors exploring potential careers in medicine and research with motivation and knowledge. The curriculum exposes students to health equity, research, and over 15 potential medical and health allied careers while working together with college undergraduate peer-mentors. Students convene weekly online on Zoom and attend three punctuating in-person touch points to enhance to online experience.

Online students learn about the path to medical and healthcare careers meeting a Black and brown guest speaker from a different medical or clinical specialty each week.
Online in small groups students learn public health concepts, connect with pre-med undergraduate facilitators, and create a research proposal investigating a racial health disparity of their choice
Students connect in-person to attend a medical education conference, a Hands-on Healthcare Experience, and present their group research proposals at the Student Research Expo.

2025 Program Dates

PDHS HEADS TO MASSACHUSETS

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PDHS HEADS TO MASSACHUSETS !

We’re excited to announce that Pipeline Dreams: High School is expanding to two cohorts this year, with our original program in Lancaster, PA, and a new cohort launching in Worcester, MA. Each cohort will have in-person experiences on different dates and locations and please mark your calendar for these experiences you will not want to miss.

Online Program Session Dates

January 21, 2025 - April 8, 2025

Week 1: 6-8pm EST Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Week 2: 6-8pm EST Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Week 3: 6-8pm EST Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Week 4: 6-8pm EST Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Week 5: 6-8pm EST Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Week 6: 6-8pm EST Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Week 7: 6-8pm EST Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Week 8: 6-8pm EST Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Week 9: 6-8pm EST Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Week 10: 6-8pm EST Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Week 11: 6-8pm EST Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Week 12: 6-8pm EST Tuesday, April 8, 2025

In-Person Experience Dates

March 8, 2025: Latino Medical Student Association Conference | Wind Creek Event Center 77 Wind Creek Blvd, Bethlehem, PA 18015

Lancaster, PA Cohort

February 8, 2025: Hands-On Healthcare Experience at St. Joesphs of Lancaster 400 Greenfield Rd, Lancaster, PA

April 19, 2025: Student Research Expo at Patients R Waiting HQ at 100 S Queen St Lancaster, PA 17543

Worcester, MA Cohort

February 1, 2025: Hands-On Healthcare Experience at UMass Chan School of Medicine 55 N Lake Ave, Worcester, MA 01655
April 9, 2025: Student Research Expo at UMass Chan School of Medicine 55 N Lake Ave, Worcester, MA 01655

Students photographed at Saint Joesph’s of Lancaster healthcare after a day at their simulation labs for the Hands-on Healthcare Experience including 5 various clinical stations like Suturing, Intubation, Ultra-Sound, EKG, OR Procedure and more! (Feb 2023)

Questions?

Check out Program Admissions Section Below.
Email Program Director, Karisa Augustine at karisa@patientsrwaiting.com

PROGRAM ADMISSIONS -

Applicant Eligibility Requirements
Must be currently enrolled in 10th or 11th grade.
Must be available online from 6-8pm EST Tuesdays January -April, 2025.
Must demonstrate an interest in learning more about pursing a career in medicine or any health allied fields.
Register online for one of Programs Info-Sessions
Local students are encouraged to attend in-person at PRW Headquarters at 100 S Queen St. Lancaster, PA 17603
Remote students are encouraged to log on via Zoom with meeting credentials shared at registration and below.
Collect high school transcript and take some time to prepare responses to application questions by January 6, 2025.
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By 11:59pm January 13, 2025 all student acceptances will be disseminated and students can expect to receive their PDHS Welcome Box with program material in the mail within the next week.
Students will complete a student intake form to answer questions about their academic profile, interests, and goals for PRW ‘s team of mentors to best support them within the 12 week program.