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• The Base Pair/SOAR program is complex, as noted by reviewers of the successful 2007-2012 resubmission. In 2006, the University of Mississippi Medical Center implemented a mandatory and across-the-board re-alignment of its compensation structure. As a result, the salary component initially defined for a part-time Program Administrator had to be reduced. Overall, the constraint of requiring no more than 10% of an award to cover administration imposes difficulties in managing an award.
• With the increase in sites reporting under the Base Pair/SOAR project, it is increasingly difficult to maintain accurate records of outcomes.

• The Base Pair web site (http://basepair.library.umc.edu/) remains active with an ever-increasing audience. The web site was accessed by 193,437 hits between July, 2006 and June, 2007, a 14.6% increase from the previous year. Due to a change in library personnel, Ms. Chameka Simmons has taken charge of managing the web site. A major change that is anticipated will be the posting of all program newsletters in archival form on the site. links to other career-oriented and community sites (eg., American Heart Association) are being implemented to assist students and community members in acquiring new information related to mentoring and biomedical science education.
• The Base Pair/SOAR program will participate in the presentation of a traveling exhibit, "Changing the Face of Medicine: Women in Medicine" created by the National Library of Medicine and hosted by the Rowland Medical Library at the University of Mississippi Medical Center during March and April of 2008. Up to four Base Pair alumna who have attended and completed medical training will return to Jackson, MS on April 8 to conduct a panel discussion for the general community. The focus for the panel will be the paths by which each attained their career goals in medicine and the challenges that each faced in doing so. The panel will be conducted in parallel with the photographic exhibit sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and current Base Pair/SOAR students will serve to introduce the panel meembers and serve as docents for the exhibit. The event will be held in the Jackson Medical Mall, a ground-breaking project in which a defunct inner-city retail mall was rejuvenated in a joint project by the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) and the Jackson community. All UMMC ambulatory clinics and most city service offices are now housed in the mall, which has had a positive impact on the neighborhood.

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