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St. Luke’s Health Academic and Faculty Affairs

St. Luke’s Health academic programs are designed to advance medical education and professional development, fostering a culture of lifelong learning and innovation.

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St. Luke’s Health provides a dynamic clinical environment for students and health care professionals, fostering connections, collaboration and a shared commitment to excellence in health care education. Our nurses, pharmacy technicians and medical staff all play a vital role in these specialty programs, ensuring a well-rounded and enriching learning experience.

 

Designed to prepare the next generation of pharmacy leaders, our residency and fellowship programs offer advanced training in specialties such as cardiology, critical care, infectious diseases and pharmacy administration. Residents benefit from robust clinical experiences, leadership development, teaching opportunities and longitudinal projects. Programs include PGY1 and PGY2 tracks, a dual PGY1/PGY2 in Health-System Pharmacy Administration and an Infectious Disease Fellowship. Participants gain hands-on experience through core and elective rotations, on-call responsibilities and professional development, with a certificate in academia available through the University of Houston.

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St. Luke's Health has joined the CommonSpirit Health Administrative Fellowship program, streamlining the recruitment process. The CommonSpirit Health Administrative Fellowship is a national 18-month system-wide fellowship offered in our various operational regions and functions across the organization. Fellows complete several rotations over the course of a year and a half to gain exposure and develop valuable skill sets in their areas of concentration.

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St. Luke’s Health participates in the CommonSpirit Health National Nurse Residency Program (NNRP) and welcomes graduate nurses from all over the country three times a year (February, July and October). We understand that your first year as a nurse is one of the biggest challenges you will face in your career. The NNRP is designed to offer support to new nurses during transition from the student role to the licensed Registered Nurse role.

The NNRP is a 12 month program with specialty tracks in the following clinical areas:

  • Medical-surgical-telemetry

  • Progressive care

  • Critical care

  • Emergency department

  • Perioperative services

You will be paired with an outstanding and formally trained preceptor to guide you through the learning process. Supportive mentors will also be available.

 

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Health care is an ever-evolving field and as a leading care provider, St. Luke’s Health is committed to remaining at the forefront of medicine. Our continuing education programs for physicians, nurses and allied health professionals are intended to meet the professional development needs of primary care practitioners.

St. Luke’s Health offers physicians AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM credits through comprehensive and innovative continuing medical education activities that are designed to increase medical knowledge and skills and ultimately change practice behavior, methods or procedures in cardiovascular medicine and other medical specialties. 

We offer live symposia, online activities and regularly scheduled series. Visit the Texas Heart Institute CME portal for a complete listing of opportunities to earn CME credits, register for upcoming symposia and generate a CME transcript of courses accredited through the THI CME office.

If you are interested in hosting a CME Symposia, visit the CME website for detailed instructions on the process or call at (832) 355-9100.

The Medical Mentor Program at St. Luke’s – The Woodlands Hospital offers college undergraduate students the opportunity to explore the medical world by shadowing a health care provider. This is a juried program open to highly motivated local students in good standing at their university and interested in pursuing a career in medicine.

Program requirements

  • Students aged 18 – 22 who are enrolled full-time in a university are invited to apply. You must be in good standing in your academic program. 

  • Participants must have reliable transportation during the program. 

  • Scrubs are required for hospital rotations. The student is responsible for purchasing their own scrubs. 

  • Each student chosen for the Medical Mentor Program will be assigned to a one-week rotation, shadowing a medical provider.  

  • Students must be fully vaccinated; no exceptions. Required vaccinations include MMR, Tdap and varicella. You must also submit a TB blood test.

  • Students must submit two letters of recommendation. At least one letter of recommendation should be from a current instructor in your program. You may submit two instructor letters or one from an academic teacher and one from another contact such as an employer, coach or sponsor of an accredited program at your school. 

  • Recommendations must include the author’s relationship to the applicant, their title, email and cell number. 

  • Letters of reference need to speak to the student’s intellectual curiosity, work ethic, maturity level, reliability and people skills.

  • Recommendations may be sent in email format or in a formal letter sent directly to Debra Staley from the author (professor, mentor or coach). 

Please note: Health verifications and recommendation letters are due by the deadline or your application is not complete.

To submit an application or vaccination verifications, contact Debra Staley.

This program is for students from The Woodlands or North Houston area only.

Requirements

  • Students must be 16 years of age by June 1, 2025, to apply.

  • All vaccinations must be up to date in order to be considered for the program.

  • Vaccination and health requirements:

    • TDap

    • MMR

    • Varicella

    • TB test.  Either two sequential TB skin tests (a minimum of 14 days apart) or a TB blood test/titer.  

    • Health verifications must come from the source of the vaccinations, such as a pediatrician or pharmacy

  • In addition, the student needs to email at least one letter of recommendation from a teacher. The teacher needs to be from your current academic year.  The teacher's letter must have the teacher's contact information for follow up. 

The application deadline is April of each year.       

Your application is not complete until your vaccination record and at least one teacher letter have been received.

To submit an application or vaccination verifications, contact Debra Staley.

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