New York Opportunities
Tuition Assistance Program (TAP):
This grant helps eligible full-time students pay tuition at approved schools in New York State. Recipients must be New York State residents or otherwise qualify under the NYS Dream Act. An annual TAP award can be up to $5,665.
NYU Grossman School of Medicine:
All students admitted into the MD program at NYU Grossman School of Medicine automatically receive a scholarship to cover the full cost of tuition.
New York Medical College (NYMC) provides funding for scholarships and need-based grants for a limited number of qualified students. These funds are provided from NYMC funds and contributions to the school, in particular, from alumni. Eligible students must be in good academic standing and or demonstrate needThis college offers admissions scholarships that can be awarded for one or a maximum of four years.
In addition to NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Full-Tuition Scholarship, need-based Debt-Free Scholarship, and full–cost-of-attendance scholarships, you may consider applying for a number of federal or private scholarship programs to help cover the cost of attendance, listed on the above website.
Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons:
Listing of external multiple scholarship opportunities
Western New York Medical Scholarships:
Western New York Medical Scholarships at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences were initiated by local physicians and business leaders to address two key objectives — student debt and projected physician shortages.
Each scholarship recipient is required to sign a pledge to live and practice for at least five years in one of the eight Western New York counties at the conclusion of their training.
Preference will be given to applicants who complete their residency training in Western New York. Students awarded will receive up to 90 percent of tuition costs.
For a complete listing of Western New York scholarships and descriptions, please see below.
Scholarships
Catholic Health System
Medical students apply during their fourth year of medical school. Students must have a relative who currently works in the Catholic Health System. Students pledge to work in the Catholic Health System for a minimum of five years after completing their training.
Erie County Medical Center
Medical students apply during their fourth year of medical school. Priority given to students entering a primary care specialty residency at the Jacobs School.
Kaleida Health System
Medical students apply during their fourth year of medical school. Priority given to students entering a primary care specialty residency at the Jacobs School.
Jonathan D. Daniels, MD ’98, & Family Memorial Scholarship
Medical students apply during their fourth year of medical school. Priority given to underrepresented minority students living in Western New York who commit to practicing pediatrics in underserved areas of Western New York.
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center – Marrano Marc Equity
Medical students apply during their fourth year of medical school. Priority given to students entering a primary care specialty residency at the Jacobs School.
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center – West Herr Automotive Group
Medical students apply during their fourth year of medical school. Priority given to underrepresented students entering a primary care specialty residency at the Jacobs School and willing to work in underserved communities in Western New York.
John J. and Janet H. Sung Scholarship
Medical students may apply at any time. This scholarship is awarded to one student in each class based on academic merit, financial need and soundness of character.
WNY Medical Scholarship Fund
Medical students apply during their fourth year of medical school. Priority given to students entering a primary care specialty residency at the Jacobs School.
The following WNY scholarships are available to students of any year while attending medical school, traditionally distributed to incoming first-year medical students when submitting the General Scholarship Application Form. Scholarship applications are available March 1 each year.
Niagara Falls Academy of Medicine and the Medical Society of Niagara Scholarship Fund
Priority given to students from Niagara County, New York, with first preference to students from the city of Niagara Falls, the towns of Cambria, Lewiston-Porter, Niagara, Pendleton and Wheatfield, the villages of Lewiston and Youngstown and the Tuscarora Nation. Pledge commitments are only required of fourth-year medical students.
The Daniel and Gail Alexander Scholarship
Preference given to medical students who graduated from Buffalo public high schools, in particular, Hutchinson Central Technical High School.
United Hospital Fund Health Equity Fellowships
UHF’s Health Equity Fellowship (HEF) program is designed to support, catalyze, and develop the next generation of health equity changemakers in New York City.
Fellows will be leaders from diverse backgrounds who work across the health care landscape to advance equity, drive systems transformation, and foster collaborative leadership.
Regents Physician Loan Forgiveness Program (LF)
Regents Physician Loan Forgiveness Award Program is a service-obligated loan repayment program for primary care, internal medicine, emergency medicine, or psychiatric physicians who provide services in a Regents-designated shortage area or shortage facility.
Other Opportunities
Posacano Leadership Foundation:
The Pisacano Scholars Leadership Program offers many career development opportunities, as well as scholarship funding, to the future leaders of family medicine. The Pisacano Scholars participate in annual Leadership Skills Development Symposia (see summary) and are offered a multitude of educational programs and mentoring relationships with current leaders in the field of family medicine. These programs are designed to enhance the overall leadership skills of the Pisacano Scholars; to provide them with the historical context and scope of family medicine; and to allow the Scholars to network and form professional relationships within their field. Examples of these programs are:
In 2021 NMF expanded its programming to provide training and support for diverse physicians to be more actively involved in clinical trials. NMF’s goal is to identify and nurture tomorrow’s health care leader, who will have the knowledge, skills, cultural competency, and commitment to achieve health equity.
Herbert W. Nickens Medical Student Scholarships:
Accepting nominations beginning January 2, 2025. These awards consist of five scholarships given to outstanding students entering their third year of medical school who have shown leadership in efforts to eliminate inequities in medical education and health care. They also should have demonstrated leadership initiative in addressing educational, societal, and health care needs of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. Each recipient receives a $5,000 scholarship. Recipients are required to accept the award at Learn Serve Lead 2024: The AAMC Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA (travel and registration costs covered by the AAMC).
American Medical Association (AMA):
The AMA offers several fellowships and scholarships for medical students.
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- AMA Foundation Physicians of Tomorrow Scholarship: Provides $10,000 scholarships to students entering their final year of medical school.
- Medical Student Section (MSS) Fellowship: The MSS Government Relations Advocacy Fellow (GRAF) offers the opportunity to be a full-time paid member of the AMA’s federal advocacy team for 1 year.
The Education & Advocacy Fellow (EAF) is a unique position for a physician-in-training student to spend a year augmenting their formal medical training with the opportunity to delve deeply into critical issues affecting access to affordable, quality healthcare, global health equity, diversity in the healthcare workforce, and medical professionalism. The objectives of the fellowship include learning and refining the fellow’s skills in grassroots organizing, leadership development, strategic planning, and advocacy. The fellowship is for 1 year and includes a stipend of $50,000.
Research Experiences for Graduate and Medical Students (REGMS)
The Endocrine Society offers Summer Research Fellowships to encourage promising undergraduate students, first year medical students, and first-or 2nd year graduate students to pursue careers in endocrinology. The Society provides a stipend to each award recipient to participate in research projects under the guidance of a Society member for 8 to 10 weeks during the summer. After the summer fellowship, recipients are invited to attend the ENDO Conference, the Society’s Annual Meeting & Expo and will receive complimentary registration, airfare and lodging, and per diem for the duration of the meeting.
The Epidemiology Elective Program (EEP) introduces medical and veterinary students to applied epidemiology, public health, and global health through hands-on experience and mentorship by CDC subject matter experts. This program offers 6- or 8-week rotations largely based at CDC in Atlanta, Georgia. Fellows are currently enrolled in a U.S. accredited medical or veterinary school and have completed 2 years of coursework. Every effort is made to place students in an assignment that provides leadership experience that aligns with their career goals and preferred public health topic area. Most schools award course credit for participation in EEP.
Fulbright-Fogarty Awards in Public Health
Offered in partnership with the Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institute of Health, Fulbright-Fogarty fellowships grant medical students and graduate students interested in global health the opportunity to conduct research in public health and clinical research in resource-limited settings. Fellows spend nine months in one of nine countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia or South America. To participate, the applicant must be a U.S. citizen and be enrolled in graduate or medical school and have sufficient proficiency in the host language to carry out the project required. Applicants who hold a doctorate are ineligible.
RPB Medical Student Eye Research Fellowship
The Medical Student Fellowship (MSF) encourages gifted medical school students to consider careers in eye research and allows them to take one year off from their studies to participate in a research project at an RPB-supported department of ophthalmology. RPB-supported Chairs may nominate a medical student prior to his/her third or fourth year of medical school. Only MD students are eligible; MD/PhD students are not eligible to apply. The award is $30,000. Applications received with no prior nomination will not be accepted. Two nomination deadlines per year.
Stanford-ABC News Global Health and Media Fellowship
This opportunity is targeted to provide medical students, residents, fellows and/or faculty with practical training in global health reporting using a variety of media platforms including: print, television, social networking and fundamentals in journalism and communications. The Fellow will complete training programs through the Stanford University Graduate Program in Journalism and will work at the World Health Organization’s South East Regional Office (SEARO) in New Delhi, India. The Fellow receives a competitive stipend. The Fellowship starts in June of each year and lasts for 12 months.
The David E. Rogers Student Fellowship Award
This fellowship is meant to enrich the educational experiences of medical and dental students through projects that bear on medicine and dentistry as they contribute to the health of communities, and to address the human needs of underserved or disadvantaged patients or populations. The content of the Fellowship might include clinical investigation, public health/epidemiology, health policy analysis, activities linking biomedicine, the social infrastructure and human or community needs. Funding of $4,000 is provided to sponsor a 10-12 week project in the summer between the student’s 1st and 2nd years of medical/dental school.
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