2025 Workshops
The UNM Health Professions Symposium has over eighty workshops for you to choose from! These workshops have topics ranging from getting ready for a pre-health track in college to having families in medical school, and everything in between. Workshops are also a great way for interested individuals to learn about other careers in healthcare such as population health, medical laboratory sciences, and dental hygiene (and many more!). With so many great workshops this year, it can be hard to choose which ones to attend. So be sure to look through the workshops below and plan ahead!
If you would like to sign up to host a workshop, please register below. We greatly appreciate your help!
Please Register by March 12, 2025.
Click on the workshop title for a description.
Please continue to check back for an updated list of Workshops for HPS 2025!
Last Updated: 11/23/2024
Admissions Process
Educational Resources
Financial Aid
How to Ace the Dental Interview
Learn how to perfect your interview skills before your big day!
University of Colorado- School of Dental Medicine
Presenter: Althea Reutzel
Target Audience: College and High School Students
C2C - Health Care Career Pathway Programs
Prepare to enter and graduate from a health education track by participating in the C2C Health Care Career Pathway Programs — a movement to diversify health professions in NM.
UNM HSC Of DEI - Communities to Careers
Presenter: Stacy Collier
Target Audience: College and High School Students
New Mexico Health Loan-for-Service & Repayment Programs
Students in the Health Field (TBA)
New Mexico Higher Education Department
Presenters: Heather Romero, Mia Candelaria and Patricia Montoya
Target Audience: College and High School Students
Behind the Prescription: A Deep Dive into Modern Pharmacy
Exploring the advancements shaping today’s pharmacy profession, highlighting the critical role pharmacists play in healthcare. From cutting-edge drug therapies to personalized medicine, stepping beyond the traditional role of dispensing medications.
UNM College of Pharmacy
Presenter: Kathryn Gentsch
Target Audience: College and High School Students
Exercise as Medicine
Exercise is preventative for many chronic diseases yet, adults do not meet the minimum requirements. This workshop will teach adults what exercises, how long we should exercise, and how often we should exercise in order to live healthier lives.
UNM Department of Health, Exercise and Sport Sciences
Presenter: Whitley C. Atkins, PhD
Target Audience: College and High School Students
Coming soon!
UNM Combined BA/MD Degree Program
The Combined BA/MD Degree Program is designed to help address the physician shortage in New Mexico through the commitment of its students to serve communities across the state. Join us to learn more about our program and what makes it truly special!
UNM Combined BA/MD Degree Program
Presenter: Jered Cervantes
Target Audience: High School Students
A New Model: Merging Traditional & Modern Medicine
Students will learn about the current efforts for merging modern and traditional medicine. A new health model is proposed for the uninsured, underinsured and the immigrant population. This model is based on an Indigenous clinic in Mexico.
UNM
Presenters: Dr. Eliseo Cheo Torres, Dr. Mario Del Angel Guevara
Target Audience: College and High School Students
UNM Physical Therapy Admissions Process
Join us for an informative Physical Therapy School Admissions Workshop! Learn what is required in the application process, how to gauge your competitiveness and strategies for preparing for the interview process.
UNM Physical Therapy
Presenter: Jodi Schilz
Target Audience: College and High School Students
How Not To Be Eaten: Conflict Communication in Healthcare
Nurses eat their young, or so the legend goes. So how does one survive? Learn to recognize the different types of lateral violence, how to respond, and how to set firm boundaries so you, too, can avoid being eaten.
UNM College of Nursing
Presenter: Joselyn Martin
Target Audience: College and High School Students
Pathways to become a #LoboNurse
At The University of New Mexico College of Nursing, we offer multiple options for you to accomplish your goal of becoming a bachelor’s prepared nurse. Come join us to explore the application requirements.
UNM College of Nursing
Presenters: Alexis Tiefa, Grace Wiele
Target Audience: College and High School Students
Health Professions Overview
Interactive/Hands On
Internship/Research Opportunities
Why Should You Be a Nurse?
A brief overview of the benefits of becoming a nurse as well as the different types of nursing professions and a brief overview of what to expect in Nursing School.
UNM College of Nursing
Presenter: Cassandra Figgs
Target Audience: College and High School Students
Athletic Trainers: Healthcare for the Physically Active
In this interactive workshop, attendees will learn about athletic training profession, our roles as healthcare providers, and patients we treat. Attendees will participate in demonstrations of various athletic training clinical skills.
UNM Athletic Training Program
Presenter: Sara Nottingham
Target Audience: College and High School Students
Coming soon!
Use of Standardized Patients in Health Care Professions
Standardized Patients (SPs) are widely used in all health care professions for learners to practice communication and physical exams skills on. See the benefits of how SPs can help you be successful in whatever Health Profession you choose.
UNM SOM Assessment and Learning
Presenters: Audrey H. Bobick, Jackie Sandoval, Erick Bodwell, Michelle Holubiak
Target Audience: College and High School Students
Doctor of Physical Therapy
This presentation provides an overview of a career in physical therapy. In additional to being informational, it is an interactive presentation that provides some insight to a career in physical therapy.
UNM SOM, Department of Orthopaedics, Division of Physical Therapy
Presenter: Dr. Rose Vallejo and Students within the Department
Target Audience: College and High School Students
Coming soon!
The CPC Becoming a Certified Professional Coder
The CPC Becoming a Certified Professional Coder
UNM GALLUP
Presenter: Roseanna McGinn
Target Audience: College and High School Students
Coming soon!
Coming soon!
Being a Dental Hygienist
A panel of Dental Hygiene Professionals and Students discuss what it's like to become and be a Dental Hygienist. They will review some aspects of education, everyday life and pros and cons of the profession. This session will end with a Q&A session.
UNM Division of Dental Hygiene
Presenters: Assistant Professor Justine Ponce, RDH, MS; Assistant Professor Nicole Gonzales, RDH, MS; Students TBA
Target Audience: College and High School Students
Coming soon!
Coming soon!
Day in the Life of a Dental Student
Step into the shoes of a second-year student at the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine. You will be guided through a typical day in dental school while gaining insight into this UNM graduate's pre-dental journey.
University of Colorado- School of Dental Medicine
Presenter: Nisali Piyasena
Target Audience: College and High School Students
A Career in Medicine: A Primer for Pre-Med Students
This presentation will explain the educational pathway to a career in medicine, and also provide general advice for applying for admission to any kind of educational program.
UNM Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Presenter: Matthew Gunderson, MD, MSc
Target Audience: College and High School Students
Pathways in Pediatrics: A Panel Discussion and Q&A Session
Do you have a desire to help kids? Do you want to know how to become a doctor who cares for kids? This panel discussion will include professionals from several different pediatric specialties, with a Q&A session to answer all of your questions.
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Presenters: TBA
Target Audience: College and High School Students
So You Want To Go To Dental School
This presentation will higlight steps individuals should consider while exploring the dental professions as a career. Personal qualities and motivations that make an individual a more compelling applicant will be addressed.
UNM Pre-Dental Society
Presenters: Charles Tatlock, DDS, MPH; UNM Pre-Dental Society
Target Audience: College and High School Students
Research in Emergency Medicine
Have you wondered how new medications, blood tests, and devices emerge in healthcare? The ED Research Team will discuss how new medications, blood tests, and devices emerge in healthcare and the role research plays in clinical settings.
UNM Health Sciences Center
Presenters: Sarah Leville, Keith Lucero + 1 TBA
Target Audience: College and High School Students
Getting Psyched about Psychiatry
This workshop will include an introduction to the field of psychiatry and various subspecialties that can be pursued. There will be discussion of NM's mental health demographics and the barriers to care for under-resourced/underserved communities.
University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Presenter: Elise Morosin
Target Audience: College and High School Students
Emergency Medicine: On the Frontlines of Healthcare
A primer on what emergency medicine is, what emergency physicians do and why we do it that way, and how to become an emergency physician.
Presbyterian Medical Group
Presenter: Andrew Bivin, MD
Target Audience: College and High School Students
Shadowing Opportunities
Student/Practitioner Panels
Test Preparation
Coming soon!
The Gap Years
SUCCESS stories from those who FAILED to get in first try!
UNM SOM
Presenters: Luke Chao, Natasha Dark, TBA
Target Audience: College and High School Students
The Princeton Review
Attending a GRE Strategy Session with The Princeton Review helps students optimize their study approach by learning test-taking strategies, time management skills, and methods to tackle challenging questions. Come learn from an expert instructor.
The Princeton Review
Presenter: Adam Wolf
Target Audience: College Students
Coming soon!
A Day in The Life of a Medical Student
Interested in hearing about a day in the life of a medical student? Join current medical students from all 4 years to hear about a day in the life as a medical student, hear about our paths to medical school, and get an opportunity to ask questions.
UNM School of Medicine
Presenters: Jordan Lee, MSIII; Andrew Hua, MSI; Madison Hochrein, MSII; Danielle Ortiz, MSIV
Target Audience: College and High School Students
Coming soon!