On Saturday, May 20, 2023 Texas A&M University School of Engineering Medicine held the inaugural graduation for the world’s first class of Physicianeers. Graduation was held at the Westin Hotel in the Texas Medical Center in Houston and Francis Collins, MD, PhD, the former director of the National Institutes of Health, was the Commencement Speaker. Graduates received a Medical doctorate and Master of engineering degree. On Friday, May 19, 2023, EnMed students presented their Innovations Poster Session, followed by a Nobel Laureates and Inventor of the Internet Colloquy. 100% of EnMed graduates successfully matched with a medical residency training program and several will serve at some of the top teaching hospitals in the U.S.
100% Residency Match Rate!
EnMed Inagural Graduation Ceremony
The Brown Foundation awards graduate scholarships to the School of Engineering Medicine (EnMed) and 20+ Brown Foundation candidates are proffered to the EnMed Admissions Committee as Brown Foundation E2EnMed Early Assurance Program candidates for admission to EnMed as high school students.
Brown Foundation E2EnMed EAP candidates must achieve National Merit status, urance Program candidates achieving, well rounded National Merit high school seniors with demonstrated leadership and community service to apply to the E2EnMed Early Assurance Program, pursue an undergraduate engineering major and matriculate to the EnMed Program. These students will be proffered for condition admission as Brown Foundation E2EnMed EAP candidates.
Brown Foundation scholarship recipients who are conditionally admitted to the EnMed Program must sustain academic excellence, the aforementioned attributes and A&M’s core values throughout their course of study as undergraduate engineering students. The Brown Foundation’s EnMed scholarship requirements, including a student’s academic achievement, medical and engineering research opportunities and MCAT scores, and required leadership positions, exceed those of the College of Medicine’s admission requirements.
Cailin O’Connell (EnMed Class of 2024) was presented the EnMed Outstanding Student Project Winner Award at the EnMed Capstone Innovator Awards Dinner for her research in Metalloprotease Sensitive Nanoparticles in Early Ovarian Cancer Detection.