The Della Keats program introduces students from far-flung parts of Alaska to college courses, dorm life and big-city educational opportunities.
Precollege program for rural and Alaska Native health students gets reboot and grant after funding gapStudents with the Della Keats precollege program attend a lecture at the University of Alaska Anchorage this year.
For Tanya Nelson from Napakiak, it was her first time seeing a cadaver. “Probably most of our first time,” she said with a smile. The Della Keats program lapsed for six years due to a lack of funding, but is back for the first time since 2018. Halfway through the program, its organizers learned the initiative won a $1.3 million grant from the Indian Health Service that should keep it running for at least five more years.
Burnett said the new funds mean they will add new components to Della Keats, including outreach to K-eighth graders and creating an Alaska Native learning community for undergraduate students in the University of Washington’s multistate medical education program, known as WWAMI after the initials of the participating state’s names: Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho. The program has staff and courses on the UAA campus.
Chanmi Joo, a program alum who just finished her first year of medical school at University of Washington, participated in Della Keats twice. It is her fourth year as a mentor.
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