Wohlreich Junior Fellows Program
Shaping Philly youth into the healthcare professionals of the future!
Interested in joining the Wohlreich Junior Fellows Program?
We're now accepting applications for our next cohort!
The Wohlreich Junior Fellows program is a nine-month after-school program for high-school students interested in science, technology, and medicine.
The College’s more than 1,000 Fellows connect students to every corner of science and medicine in Philadelphia through field trips and mentorship programs. The 500,000 objects held at the Mütter Museum and Historical Medical Library offer unlimited opportunities for students to learn about the histories of science and medicine through hands-on engagement with medical models, instruments, and texts.
Students will receive a stipend for successful completion of each semester.
Cohorts
The Girls One Diaspora Club cohort of the Wohlreich Junior Fellows program
highlights the perspectives and experiences of girls from Africa and the African Diaspora, while providing them with healthcare- and STEM-oriented instruction, mentorship, academic support, and college/career preparation in an inclusive, safe space.The program offers these Philadelphia-area high school students the opportunity to engage with their interests in healthcare, medicine, humanities, and STEM fields through field trips, guest speakers, research instruction, and more during the 2026–2027 school year.
Additionally, the Girls One Diaspora Club focuses on fostering a deeper understanding of the intersections among underserved communities and healthcare and healthcare workforce inequities, medical history, and biases in medicine. It offers students opportunities to engage with scientists, educators, activists, medical practitioners, and historians who support the community.
As Wohlreich Junior Fellows, students admitted to the Girls One Diaspora Club will join the most concentrated and diverse network of medical expertise in Philadelphia: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Each Junior Fellow will belong to a mentorship cohort that includes both active College Fellows and “Young Fellows,” who are alumni of the College’s afterschool programs.
The Out4STEM cohort of the Wohlreich Junior Fellows program aims to provide Philadelphia’s LGBTQIA+ youth with healthcare and STEM-oriented instruction, mentorship, academic support, and college/career preparation in an inclusive, safe space.
The program offers Philadelphia-area high school students the opportunity to engage with their interests in healthcare, medicine, humanities, and STEM fields through field trips, guest speakers, research instruction, and more throughout the 2026–2027 school year. Additionally, Out4STEM focuses on fostering a deeper understanding of the intersections between medical and LGBTQIA+ history and offers students opportunities to engage with scientists, educators, activists, medical practitioners, and historians who support the community.
As Wohlreich Junior Fellows, students admitted to Out4STEM will join the most concentrated and diverse network of medical expertise in Philadelphia: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Each Junior Fellow will belong to a mentorship cohort that includes both active College Fellows and “Young Fellows,” who are alumni of the College’s afterschool programs.
I think it has given me the utmost confidence as far as what the possibilities of my career goal could be. For that, I’m just forever thankful.
– Junior Fellow Student
About George and Judy Wohlreich
The program is named after George and Judy Wohlreich. From 2006 to 2021, George M. Wohlreich, MD, MA, DSc (Hon), FCPP, was the President, CEO, and Thomas W. Langfitt Chair of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. During his tenure, Dr. Wohlreich spearheaded the creation of the program, which led the Center for Education to develop its unique educational model.
Program Details
Rising 9th through 12th-grade students from the School District of Philadelphia.
Students meet with their cohort once per week from September through May. Over the course of the program, students will develop an independent research project under the guidance of an instructor. They will build skills in formulating a research question, identifying and using appropriate research materials, and interpreting their findings. Students will present their research at a celebratory poster presentation in late May.
The program’s academic curriculum includes the following four to six-week blocks:Science Today: Philosophy, Practice, and Ethics | Anatomy & Physiology | Biotechnology | Forensic Science | Public Health | Climate Change & Sustainability
They’ve given us connections. They bring real people from all over that are specialists. In school you could read about it, they’ll teach you about it, but you don’t actually get that experience.
– Junior Fellow Student
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