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SIU MedPrep director tells trustees program yields high completion and professional‑school placement but needs space and resources
Summary
MedPrep director Randy Burnside told the Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees that the Carbondale MedPrep program has an 89% completion rate and that 82% of recent completers entered professional schools; trustees heard calls for more resources and a consolidated campus space. No action was taken because a quorum was not present.
Dr. Randy Burnside, director of the MedPrep preparatory program at the SIU School of Medicine, told the Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees that MedPrep — founded in 1972 — focuses on socioeconomically and educationally disadvantaged and underrepresented students from central and southern Illinois and posts strong outcomes for participants.
"Over the history of MedPrep, there have been 1,731 students," Burnside said, and in a five‑year snapshot the program recorded an "89% completion rate" with "82% of these students entered medical, dental, or other professional schools." He told trustees that roughly 87% of program participants historically have been underrepresented in medicine and that the current gender split is about…
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