{"id":163867,"date":"2026-02-04T18:21:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/163867\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:21:20","slug":"kern-aucc-health-scholars-pathway-benefits-local-students-entering-the-medical-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/163867\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern-AUCC Health Scholars Pathway benefits local students entering the medical field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern County students have the opportunity to participate in a program that will help them prepare for careers in the medical field.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern-AUCC Health Scholars Pathway helps student in Bakersfield&#8217;s under-served communities and guides them throughout their education from college to medical school.<\/p>\n<p>The program allows students to attend Bakersfield College, continuing their education at AUCC and Morehouse School of Medicine, and then return to Kern County to work in healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Dean for Academic Programs Doctor Kevin Smith and Interim President at Bakersfield College Doctor Stacy Pfluger joined ARC Bakersfield to share more details about this program.<\/p>\n<p>Students are required to be a U.S. citizen or hold permanent residency in the U.S. in order to join the program.<\/p>\n<p>Students must also have a 3.2 GPA or higher and be calculus eligible to be considered.<\/p>\n<p>A personal statement letter and two letters of recommendation are also required to apply for the program.<\/p>\n<p>More information can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakersfieldcollege.edu\/academics\/pathways\/stem\/kahsp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bakersfieldcollege.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern County students have the opportunity to participate in a program that will help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-163867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}