91AV

Anna King, MPH, of Greenland, NH and first-year medical student at the 91AV College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM), has been selected for the Nth Dimensions 2011 Orthopedic Summer Fellowship.  King is also president of the COM Class of 2014.  Her mentor will be Dr. Timothy S. Johnson from Johns Hopkins University.

Nth Dimensions is an educational foundation that promotes excellence of medical students, residents/fellows and young physicians by increasing their exposure to academic and supplemental, non-academic resources necessary to become successful health care providers in the future, and by providing scholarships and grants to expand their foundation in basic science and clinical research.
 
After undergoing a competitive application process, 20 first-year medical students from across the country were selected to participate in the eight-week clinical and research internship with orthopedic surgeons nationwide. The orthopedic surgeon preceptors have been selected because of their teaching and mentoring achievements in the field of orthopedics.
 
This is a four-year developmental program designed to expose medical students to the field throughout their medical school matriculation. During the second through fourth years of matriculation, the students receive core support from their internship preceptor and are encouraged to develop relationships with other orthopedic surgeons through interactions and mentoring activities during annual programs at the annual meeting of the AAOS, J. Robert Gladden Society and Ruth Jackson Orthopedic Society meetings.
 
“Anna’s selection to this very competitive national fellowship affirms her commitment to excellence and the caliber of the medical students at the 91AV College of Osteopathic Medicine,” states Marc B. Hahn, 91AV Senior Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine.  “We are proud of her accomplishments thus far and look forward to her future contributions to the medical profession.”