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Pathway to Health Professions

The Pathway program is no longer accepting students.

Welcome!The Pathway at The University of Texas at San Antonio is at the service of the students from the high schools of San Antonio and surroundings.

What is the mission of the Pathway?

• Provide the students from the high schools with an educational program that will assist them in becoming competitive applicants to a health professional program in Allied Health, Dentistry or Medicine.
• Shape their future health professional identity.
• Promote the professional ethics and social responsibility of the students

How does the Pathway accomplish its mission?

• Recruits high school students prior to their junior year.
• Retains the student until high school graduation with a program of learning activities that serve the students to begin building their health professional program application portfolio, their identity as future health professionals, their personal ethics and their social responsibility.
• Recruits them into the UTSA.
• Retains them at the UTSA with a program of activities that continue to serve the students by strengthening their health professional program application portfolio, their identity as future health professionals, their personal ethics and their social responsibility.
• Readies them for completing their application to a health professional program by offering them Standardized Test preparation, application tutorials and simulated interviews.

Where do Pathway activities take place?

• At The University of Texas at San Antonio – Downtown Campus located at 501 W. Cesar E. Chavez Blvd., San Antonio, Texas 78207.

When do Pathway activities take place?

• During the school year on weekends that do not interfere with the fw-normal school curriculum.
• During the summer when the students (rising juniors, seniors, and UTSA freshman) attend 6 weeks, problem-based curriculum.
• Participating students receive a stipend.

Who is implementing the Pathway?

• Office of the Health Professions.
• Office of P-20 Initiatives.
• Department of Interdisciplinary Learning of the College of Education.
• University College.
• The Policy Studies Center of the College of Public Policy.

Who is funding the Pathway?

The Pathway is funded by the Health Careers Opportunities Program (HCOP) the Health Resources and Services Administration of the US Department of Health and Human Services and the in-kind support of all of its partners.