title: The Health Science Institute: an experience in learning.
abstract: The Health Science Institute of Howard University was initiated during the summer of 1973 by students and faculty members in the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences to address one of the major problems related to the overall poor status of health-care delivery for residents of the nation's underserved areas-the critical health manpower shortage.
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes; D004219:District of Columbia; D006266:Health Education / Q000592:standards; D012586:Science; D013336:Students, Health Occupations; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*