{"id":61414,"date":"2013-09-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-student-wins-early-acceptance-to-brown-university-medical-school-in-2015\/"},"modified":"2013-09-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T00:00:00","slug":"uri-student-wins-early-acceptance-to-brown-university-medical-school-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2013\/09\/uri-student-wins-early-acceptance-to-brown-university-medical-school-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 student wins early acceptance to Brown University medical school in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tShayla Minteer also wins business scholarship and Metcalf award<\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Sept. 20, 2013 \u2013 Shayla Minteer has a passion for helping other people, both in her daily life and career. Now she\u2019s one step closer to realizing her dream.<\/p>\n


\nThe 24-year-old Newport resident has been accepted into Brown University\u2019s Warren Alpert School of Medicine through the 溏心vlog免费B站-Brown University Early Identification Program, which offers early contingent admission to a sophomore from Rhode Island. <\/p>\n


\nBrown\u2019s medical school is highly competitive, so her acceptance puts her among a select group. For example, in the entering class of 2012, with more than 7000 applicants vying for 120 spots, less than a dozen Rhode Islanders were offered a seat. <\/p>\n


\n \u201cMy goals are to love others and preserve life,\u201d says Minteer. \u201cI can accomplish those goals as a doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe prestigious honor is just one of many that Minteer, who is double majoring in general business administration and medical lab science, has received since she enrolled at 溏心vlog免费B站 in 2010. <\/p>\n


\nShe also won the Frank Navarro Scholarship from the College of Business, which allowed her to quit her day job and focus entirely on her studies \u2013 a blessing for someone who moved out of her parents\u2019 house after high school and has been supporting herself since, paying for everything from rent to food.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI jumped out of my seat when I found out about the Navarro award,\u201d says Minteer, who just started her junior year. \u201cIt\u2019s been difficult working and going to school. This is amazing.\u2018\u2019<\/p>\n


\nMinteer has come a long way from her childhood days in Richmond, R.I., the middle of three children born to working-class parents. She was a shy, introverted child who started dancing when she was 5 \u2013 ballet, tap, jazz, Irish step. \u201cI loved dancing,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was a wonderful way to express myself through my body.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tBut she also excelled in the classroom. After graduating near the top of her class at Chariho Regional High School, she decided to work instead of go to college \u2013 a decision she does not regret. Working built up her self-esteem, gave her valuable life lessons, and introduced her to mentors she admired and respected. <\/p>\n


\nOver the years, she worked as a software designer and purchasing agent and an IT and accounting assistant. In 2010, she decided it was time to get a college degree and started taking classes on 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Providence campus at night so she could work during the day.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe Navarro scholarship changed my life,\u201d she says. \u201cNow I can focus on my studies. I\u2019ve never had a class I didn\u2019t like. At 溏心vlog免费B站, there are so many doors around me and I have this key and can open any door I want.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tShe\u2019s especially proud of her early admission in 2015 to Brown\u2019s medical school, which seeks applicants with intellectual curiosity, clinical or research experience, a commitment to helping others, integrity and enthusiasm.<\/p>\n


\n \u201cIt\u2019s a good fit for me, and I\u2019m a good fit for Brown,\u201d says Minteer, who wants to be a primary care doctor. \u201cI\u2019m just glad to be a part of the school.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tTo receive 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s nomination, Minteer submitted an application and was interviewed by 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s health professions advisory committee. Three others also applied. Of the four, Minteer and one other student were nominated by 溏心vlog免费B站 and then interviewed by members of the medical school admissions committee at Brown. <\/p>\n


\n\tAnother one of Minteer\u2019s goals is to help people who have experienced hardship. Thanks to a Michael P. Metcalf Fellow award, Minteer volunteered over the summer in a poor town in Peru helping a gynecology clinic streamline its business practices. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe Michael P. Metcalf Memorial Fund, an endowment established at the Rhode Island Foundation in 1989 to honor the late publisher of The Providence Journal, awards up to $5,000 to Rhode Island college students seeking to pursue an education project through travel.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt was a really exciting experience,\u201d says Minteer, who visited Peru at the same lab in 2012 with a group of 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate students studying cytology. \u201cI studied Peru from the point of the people, the environment and health care. I combined my passion for medicine, business and science.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nBefore Peru, Minteer spent three months conducting HIV-related research at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University \u2013 a trip partially funded by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Program, of which she is a participant. <\/p>\n


\nMinteer was selected from a nationally competitive pool of applicants to join the Bloomberg School\u2019s Diversity Summer Internship Program, a 10-week program that allows undergraduates to do graduate-level independent research. Interns work on a research project with mentors, complete a paper, and deliver a presentation. Assigned to the Rakai Health Sciences Project, Minteer looked at family influences on HIV transmission in Africa and is expected to co-author papers on the subject.<\/p>\n


\nFor the second year in a row, Minteer was selected for the Dr. Howard E. \u201937 and Dorothy Babcock \u201937 Possner Scholarship, an award for a 溏心vlog免费B站 pre-med student in good academic standing with financial need. <\/p>\n


\nDespite her heavy off-campus workload, Minteer has emerged as a leader on campus. She was a student ambassador for the College of the Environment and Life Sciences, serving as a peer mentor and representative at recruitment events.<\/p>\n


\nShe is the founder of the 溏心vlog免费B站 chapter of FACE AIDS, which is affiliated with Paul Farmers\u2019 Partners in Health. In the spring, the 溏心vlog免费B站 chapter hosted a Condom Fashion Show \u2013 an HIV-prevention charity night \u2013 with the Fashion Merchandising Society and the LGBTQ Center. Minteer is also a member of the Rhode Island HIV Prevention Coalition.

\nFinally, she volunteers at a hospice and the Friend\u2019s Way Bereavement Center, helping children ages 2 to 6 who have lost loved ones.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cVolunteering is precious to me,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s an honor to be in situations of pure and open learning and giving and understanding of all types of people. As humans we have an endless capacity for love. So why withhold any of it.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tKathleen Maher, assistant director of the Honors Program and chair of the committee that nominated Minteer to Brown, says Minteer represents the best of the best at 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cShayla has taken full advantage of the wide range of opportunities for learning, research, service and leadership available at 溏心vlog免费B站,\u201d Maher says. \u201cFrom here, she has entered the world stage.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tPictured above: Shayla Minteer \u201915, of Newport, a junior at the 溏心vlog免费B站 who has been accepted into Brown University\u2019s Warren Alpert Medical School through the 溏心vlog免费B站-Brown University Early Identification Program, which offers early contingent admission to a sophomore from Rhode Island. Minteer is a double major: medical lab science and general business administration. <\/p>\n


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