The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine is this year’s host of the 43rd annual meeting of the Texas Association of Advisors for the Health Professions (TAAHP), which takes place at the Camino Real Hotel Feb. 9-11. As the newest medical school in Texas, the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine now joins the eight other medical schools in the state to take its turn to host this conference.
The purposes of TAAHP are to advance undergraduate education for all the health professions, to further the development of health science curricula, to facilitate the exchange and dissemination of information and to conduct educational meetings. The TAAHP annual conference is typically attended by almost all the undergraduate university health professions advisors in the state, as well as admissions deans and staffs from Texas health professions schools, including medicine, dentistry, veterinary, nursing, pharmacy and other allied health fields. Attendance is expected to be in excess of 150 participants. Highlights of the meeting include presentations on ethics and professionalism, new horizons in nursing education, competencies in medical and pre-medical education, integrated medical curriculum, professions updates, posters, exhibits and a tour of our El Paso medical school.
“I am very thankful to all members of the team in the office of admissions of our school for their diligence in helping to plan and organize the details of this meeting,” said Associate Dean for Admissions Manuel Schydlower, MD. “We are very aware that these advisors were instrumental in helping to prepare many of the 2,900 applicants that we had for our next class of 80 medical students.”
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