New partnership will give community college students a path running through Sac State to medical school

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  • Sacramento State will partner with Cal Poly Humboldt and UC Davis School of Medicine to help prepare community college students for medical careers and encourage them to practice in rural and other areas of California in dire need of physicians.

Sacramento State will partner with Cal Poly Humboldt and UC Davis School of Medicine to help prepare community college students for medical careers and encourage them to practice in rural and other areas of California in dire need of physicians.

The Avenue M project, launching this fall, is designed for students who are interested in studying medicine but may think their goal is unattainable, said Richard Aguirre, services coordinator of Sac State’s Science Educational Equity (SEE) program. Sac State and Cal Poly Humboldt will identify those students in community colleges, provide them with academic support, help them transfer to STEM studies, and steer them toward medical school.  

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