YEAR 1
FALL - This course will focus on the literature of minority communities encountering the healthcare system.
SPRING - This course focuses on bioethics and asking students to apply what they have learned in the identification, study, and resolution or mitigation of conflicts among competing values or goals.
3.0 credit hours per semester
YEAR 2
FALL - 20 hours of shadowing with an appropriate healthcare provider. This experience is accompanied by a seminar from experts about current issues facing the American healthcare system.
SPRING - Students are introduced to qualitative and quantitative research techniques.
2.0 credit hours per semester
YEAR 3 - 4
YEAR 3 - Focus on scientific writing and the presentation of research findings. Students will also be engaged in paid research - fulfilling Research Scholar designation.
YEAR 4 - Students engage in, and report on, a community service project including researching the issue, timeline and budget, evaluation instruments, analysis of the process, and analysis of the product.
1.0 credit hour per semester
Health Sciences LEAP is a four-year pipeline program for students from underrepresented communities (first generation or academically, socially, or economically disadvantaged) seeking careers in health or medicine. The curriculum was designed by the University Of Utah School Of Medicine and is one course each semester for 4 years (fall and spring semesters only).
Applications for this program are available in the spring for the upcoming school year starting in the fall and requirements for application can be found on this website.
Have the same classmates all four years
Have a Dedicated Librarian from the College of Medicine to help with research
Coached from a peer mentor/advisor in the first year
Have the same Professor for seven of the eight classes
Earns 14 hours of credit toward graduation
Applications for this program are available in the spring for the upcoming school year starting in the fall.
Requirements for the Program can be found on this website.
Students selected will know prior to freshman Orientation if they have been accepted and how they will enroll in the course.
Carolyn Bliss, PhD
Nora Wood, PhD
801 581-4856
Support from the Office of Health Equity and Inclusion
Kathryn Browning-Hawes
801-213-1258
Health Science LEAP Fall 2019
| Class # | Subject | Cat # | Sec | Days | Time |
| 1003 | LEAP | 1100 | 001 | MWF | 9:40am-10:30am |