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2024 Larry D. Keith Health Professions Recruitment Fair

Date TBD

UNC School of Medicine Office of Scholastic Enrichment & Equity co-hosts the annual Larry D. Keith Health Professions Recruitment Fair as part of our MED Program. The LDK Recruitment Fair will return summer of 2024. Date and registration information for recruiters will be provided in early 2024.

The Larry D. Keith Area Health Professions Recruitment Fair is sponsored by the University of North Carolina Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and Duke University School of Medicine. The local hosts will also include the NC AHEC Programs and Carolina Higher Education Opportunity Programs (CHEOP). Students and advisers will be invited from various institutions. Based on past seminars, the audience will represent 15-20 states and 40-50 health professional colleges and universities.

The purpose of the recruitment fair is to enable a group of summer program participants to expand their horizons on the health professional school opportunities available to them, to enrich their understanding of the pre-professional planning process, and to meet personally with important professional school representatives. Approximately 300 minority and/or disadvantaged students — mostly college juniors, seniors, and post-graduates — will attend. These students attending the fair will come from the following summer programs: