MPower Paves the way for UM Bioengineering Students
Published 1/28/19 on the University of Maryland School of Medicine at UMB website
From left to right: Dr. Yu Chen, Associate Professor, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland College Park, with students Dhruvesh Amin, Jinan Murhaf Oubaid, and Christopher Chester.
UMCP students experience firsthand the robust link between engineering and medicine
The University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State has gained significant momentum, delivering enhanced economic, academic, and research benefits for the people of Maryland and beyond. This strategic partnership is a structured research and academic collaboration between the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). Leveraging the sizeable strengths and complementary missions of both institutions, MPower has created many unique educational opportunities for students at both universities.
The University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering’s Robert E. Fischell Department of Bioengineering, in collaboration with the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), has implemented several new initiatives to strengthen the pathways to professional degrees and address the needs of the bioengineering workforce. One of these initiatives is a three-week clinical experience program offered to UMCP junior and senior undergraduate bioengineering students held at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), where they can learn directly from UMSOM clinicians. The course has proved so attractive that it has “sold out” immediately on the first day of registration over the past two years.
“The clinical experience program is a very popular course,” said Christopher Chester, a senior bioengineering student at the UMCP. “I am glad I was able to take this course in my final year.”
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