Student Resources
At OHSU, we believe diversity means creating a community of inclusion. That is why we are committed to supporting an environment where students from historically underrepresented populations can thrive and maximize their potential for creativity, innovation, quality patient care, educational excellence and outstanding service.
The following programs and resources provide support to enhance multicultural awareness, understanding, and education:
- OHSU Center for Diversity & Multicultural Affairs (CeDMA)-serves as a university resource supporting collaboration with the academic units, hospitals, and other campus and community resources in promoting an environment that values and nurtures an inclusive environment of diversity through various resources and programs for students, staff and faculty including Student Access and Cultural Competency Lecture Series.
- Office of International Services- provides immigration advice and services to international students, employees and visitors.
- Affirmative Action & Equal Opportunity (AAEO)- a resource for OHSU students, faculty, staff, patients, and employment applicants in their effort to support diversity and prohibit discrimination in all facets of the University's activities including providing information on diversity recruitment and diversity education.
- The Coalition for Health and Affirmation of Sexual Minorities (CHASM) - OHSU's campus-wide organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) students, faculty, and employees and their allies, friends, and family.
- School of Nursing, Diversity & ADA Services- provides information about diversity and ADA services for students at the School of Nursing.
- OHSU Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence (HCGNE) - an initiative to build academic geriatric nursing capacity in response to the critical need for geriatric nurses at all levels. The initiative has three components: support for five Hartford Centers of Geriatric Nursing Excellence (HCGNEs); scholar and fellow awards, and a Coordinating Center at the American Academy of Nursing.
- Workforce Improvement with Immigrant Nurses (WII) - a year-long program, approved by the Oregon State Board of Nursing as a re-entry program, designed to prepare experienced foreign-educated nurses for the National Certifying and Licensing Examination (NCLEX-RN). WIIN classes are held at Clackamas Community College on the Harmony Campus. OHSU partners with WIIN in several ways to help address the need for bilingual/bicultural nurses in the healthcare workforce.
- Scholars in Medical Spanish Electives- information on courses designed for medical students who would like to earn credit while practicing Spanish at the advanced beginner, intermediate and advanced levels.
- Spanish Language Classes- information on noncredit Spanish language classes open to everyone at OHSU. Class level's include: Beginning Medical Spanish, Beginning I - IV, and Intermediate I and II.
- Rural Community Health Clerkships- provides the opportunity to experience primary care as practiced in rural areas or with undeserved populations in Oregon.
- Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) - a partnership with OHSU and Oregon communities to improve education, training and distribution of healthcare professionals in Oregon. The AHEC program gives students a taste of rural practice with the hope they eventually settle there. For health care professionals who enter rural practice, the program helps them keep their skills up-to-date through continuing education opportunities.
Scholarship Programs
- Chinese American Physicians Society Scholarship - CAPS is offering scholarship(s) of $2000 to $5000 each annually to all medical students in need of financial aid regardless of their hometown, sex, race or color. The deadline for submitting the completed applications is usually at the end of February.
- Mitch Greenlick Public Health Scholarship - a scholarship program for MPH students who are committed to serving the health of under-represented minority communities or who show significant potential for contributing to public health science.
- Oregon Eastern Star - Scholarships are available in the range of $1000 to female students residing in Oregon who are enrolled in a non-sectarian college or university, and who have completed at least two years of college work.
