Instead of starting a new thread I am just going to piggyback off of this one.
Has anyone looked at any scholarships? If so, feel free to list them here please.
I found a few but most are requiring that I be a senior or a junior or a …basically not a post-bac student. I am applying to them anyway but was wondering if anyone has had any success in finding scholarships where the only criteria is that you are/will be a medical school student?
I might as well start it off:
2008 Tylenol Scholarship - Due Date: 5/15/2008
Awesome idea, Dude.
Dude,
I think your idea - assuming I getting it correct - of listing scholarship opportunities in place for all to see is AWESOME & merits its own thread!
2008 Tylenol Scholarship - Due Date: 5/15/2008
2008 Sherry R. Arnstein Minority (DO) Student Scholarship - Due Date: 3/31/2008
I have mentioned this before, but IF you want to work in rural Kansas (defined by anywhere BUT the counties of Douglas (Lawrence), Shawnee (Topeka), Johnson, Wyandotte (both Kansas City) and Sedgwick (Wichita) counties) in a primary care (defined by Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics or “Med Peds” the the state has a deal for you!
This program is called KMS (sorry I am not sure exactly what that means) and was established way back in like 1948 by the efforts of Dr Franklin D. Murphy (the name will be familiar to you guys from UCLA he had the same job there) the youngest Chancellor in the history of KU. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_David_M urphy http://www.kuhistory.com/proto/story.asp?id=51 Additionally Kansas (for all the faults) has enacted a VERY progressive statewide liability insurance program (a long time before it was “vogue” to do so back in the 1970’s), all insurance is issued through the state and has caps built-in, additionally the state does NOT automatically “settle cases” and litigates ALL deemed even a little specious (at state expense).
They will pay 100% of medical school and in addition give you $2000 per month to live on while in medical school AND lump sums at the start of each semester which are around $3000, in return you agree to practice in rural Kansas for ONE year for every year you take the grant.
Acceptance to the KMS program is “automatic” to anyone upon admission to the KU School of Medicine (even if you are from somewhere besides Kansas). It is renewable each year. Also it does not matter where you do residency. How much medical school debt do I have? About $10,000 left over from undergrad, my medical education is FREE!
Not meaning to recruit for Kansas, but having owned a home in Richmond Virginia, the cost of land and housing is frankly BARGAIN BASEMENT! Kathy and I live in a neat old place build in 1883, 12’ ceilings, six bedrooms and two full baths (not a beatter we have dual zone central air and heat etc.) and qualified for (paperwork in progress) for listing on the “National Registry of Historic Places”… for a little over $76,000, an identical home in Richmond would be in the neighborhood of $250-350,000.
Ummmm…I’m also taking classes at JCCC (starting post bacc at Avila in the Fall) and have great hopes about getting into KU Med. Can we please not tell the whole country what a great deal that we have going here? 
The pre-med conference only made me love KU even more…
I would jump at the scholarship…but what if I find my niche while doing 3rd year rotations, and it’s not in primary care? I don’t feel capable of making that kind of commitment with my lack of experience in the medicine…But it’s an amazing deal.
I called KU today …WOW! that is such a great program! Thanks for sharing!
Gwen
University of Central Florida is planning on giving all students who matriculate into their first class free tuition. Their first class will be 2009-2010.
http://nhsc.bhpr.hrsa.gov/applications/
National Health Service Corps.
They will pay $25,000-$35,000 of your annual tuition in return, when you graduate you work in certain communities for an extended period of time.
Be aware that there is a significant penalty if you change your mind about primary care. If you are SURE that you want to go into one of the primary care specialties, NHSC is a great opportunity, and getting one of these scholarships is fairly competitive. I believe it is not need-based but I may be wrong.
Also for those of you who aren’t sure about specialty: NHSC also has a pay-back program where you take a job in a high-need area and they pay back $25K of your loans for every year you work in that position, up to four years I think. (again, I may not have these critical details exact so please be sure to check!) Note that these are PAID positions - while your loan is getting paid back, you ARE making a salary that is presented as competitive to others in that area.
Mary
Are Kansas and Arizona the only states that offer tuition repayment programs?
I know that Richard has on a number of threads over the years praised the very attractive KMS program in Kansas [above].
I just wanted to also share that a similar program exists in Arizona.
http://www.financial-aid.medicine.arizona.edu/amsl…
This is also service based repayment program. Some of the upsides are that there doesn’t seem to be a cap on the yearly tuition amount that can be repaid, and a $20K stipend annually also seems to be thrown in.
Is anyone aware of other states that would also have similar service based tuition repayment or scholarship programs to those offered in Kansas and Arizona?
Neil
You know surprisingly, KMS has leftover funds nearly every year! Why you may ask?
The reason is simple MANY, MANY young people do not take the grant because they (as we have postulated much here in this forum) have NO IDEA what they want to be when they grow-up (indeed, I had classmates still trying to decide the weekend before the “rank-order list” closed, not just what RESIDENCY program but what SPECIALTY).
KMS does have a rather punitive payback terms (unless you refinance it), if you default the entire amount is paid back at 18% interest
This also raises certain obvious and yet rather ironic and fundamental questions as far as I am concerned…
I seem to recall virtually ALL of them (the NO experience or perspective outside of grade school to college set) selling or rather singing in perfect harmony; with great passion and conviction the “magnanimous regard for humanity and selfless service to those with lesser circumstances” for the admissions committee.
I have come to understand that that this particular “tune” is certainly an extinguishable skill and thus they won’t take the grant because (these are REAL QUOTES) “I might match into dermatology” or “I just said what I had to… I really want to practice in Chicago…” or “Yeah, who wants to stay here? I am planning to move back to the Bay Area when I am done”.
I guess at 24, 25 or 26 even the one to one payback, costing them at a maximum four years is too insurmountable (another thing older people have a perspective on…). Of course after the payback they can move on to whatever they wish at what age 30?
I guess they do have a point; life is over by then right (TEE HEE) Heck I did not even start my pre-reqs until I was 38.
The program despite the above “issue” is popular and KU does have a much higher portion nationally of graduates who DO stay in the state.
I know a lot of people tend to look down on this (i.e. those who never went through it, usually) but the military’s HPSP is one of the best scholarships in my opinion. Right now, they offer full payment of med school tuition plus $1900 a month stipend. In exchange, you agree to go through internship and residency plus 4 (i.e. four years added on to that as an obligation).
So, if you like the idea of serving your country in the military and don’t mind spending a bit of time there, than go for it! My dad said (a DO in the Air Force) that he felt like HPSP was the best thing out there, as long as you don’t mind spending some time in uniform and traveling overseas and all that stuff .
Here are links to the Army and Air Force sites:
http://www.goarmy.com/amedd/hpsp.jsp
http://www.airforce.com/education/healthcare/ money…
With the KMS program do you get to pick where in “rural” Kansas you want to practice?
Does anyone know for sure what the physical disqualifications are for the military scholarship? I know I am over the age but heard that you can get a waiver if you meet all the other criteria.
I don’t know all the military medical qualifications, but I have mild intermittent asthma and had no problems getting a medical waiver.
ASIST Women in Transition Scholarship
http://www.ewiharrisburg.org/scholarships.html
I believe they have a chapter for every state. The Official heading is EWI- Executive Women International and I believe the ASIST scholarship is one of 3. Asist is not spelled incorrectly, it’s their acronym.
If you have interesting sources, please add to my wiki on this at http://masonwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Scholarships+fo… . Thanks!
- mnknight Said:
Does anyone know for sure what the physical disqualifications are for the military scholarship? I know I am over the age but heard that you can get a waiver if you meet all the other criteria.
This question came up at the OldPreMeds 2007 conference when we several presentations, exhibitors, and recruiters related to military. The commanding officer of Naval Health Professions Recruiting, Great Lakes Command, responded while 36 was the official age limit, if you have a letter of acceptance and you can pass a physical, you'll get a waiver.