HealthPoint Health Scholars

The Health Scholars Program is a collaboration between HealthPoint and its school-based clinics. It aims to introduce healthcare to underrepresented sophomores, juniors, and seniors who express interest in health and medicine. The program seeks to inspire students to pursue health careers, instill confidence, and provide guidance and mentorship for their futures.

The program aims to achieve these goals through cooperative, hands-on learning sessions and clinical shadowing.

In the cooperative learning sessions, Health Scholars have opportunities to learn skills such as taking vital signs, administering vaccines, performing physical exams, using ultrasound machines, suturing wounds, and writing resumes. The cooperative learning sessions also include topics such as: Basic Life Support, public health and preventative medicine, mental health, anatomy, medical ethics, medical advocacy, and financing careers in medicine.

In the shadowing sessions, Health Scholars have opportunities to follow physicians, nurse practitioners, dentists, and other health professionals of their choosing to see how clinical care is practiced.

Students should be

• A sophomore,  junior, or senior in high school

• Be in academic good standing (GPA of 2.5 or higher)

• Up to date on all vaccines, including flu and COVID

• Negative screening for tuberculosis

• Must live in King County, WA

• Be able to attend two 2-hour sessions per month from November through June. One session per month will be at a HealthPoint clinic site, shadowing a healthcare professional (you choose the time and day). The other session per month will be hands-on learning. For students in the Highline School District, the hands-on sessions will be at Highline High School, and the shadowing will be at HealthPoint SeaTac (4040 S 188th St #201, SeaTac, WA 98188). For all other students, hands-on sessions will be at Renton High School, and shadowing sessions will be at HealthPoint Renton (200 S 2nd St, Renton, WA 98057)

• Be able to maintain confidentiality. There will be a training session about patient confidentiality at the beginning of the program

• Receive approval from parent/guardian to participate

Applications are now closed for the 2025 - 2026 school year. Applications for next year will open in September 2026. 

For more information about the Health Scholars Program, or if you have any questions, please contact us at HealthScholars@healthpointchc.org