Lourenço S V
J Med Educ. 1983 Jan;58(1):39-44.
"Early outreach" may be defined as a long-term, talent-development strategy designed to prepare a well qualified pool of disadvantaged and underrepresented minority applicants for entry into health professions schools, particularly medical schools. The concept of early outreach is to prepare, motivate, and educate talented, economically disadvantaged junior high or secondary school students to gain the necessary academic qualifications to make high school graduation, college attendance, and health careers a reality. In this paper the author defines the problem to which early outreach is addressed and discussed the contextual and historical background of the concept. A number of programs at the Health Sciences Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago designed and implemented to provide a model to achieve the concept of early outreach are described.
“早期拓展”可被定义为一种长期的人才培养战略，旨在为健康职业院校，尤其是医学院，培养一批资质良好但处于弱势且代表性不足的少数族裔申请者。早期拓展的理念是培养、激励和教育有天赋但经济上处于不利地位的初中或高中生，使其获得必要的学术资质，从而实现高中毕业、进入大学并投身健康职业领域。在本文中，作者界定了早期拓展所针对的问题，并探讨了该理念的背景和历史渊源。文中还介绍了伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校健康科学中心设计并实施的一系列项目，这些项目为实现早期拓展理念提供了范例。
