Kaiser Permanente offers medical school scholarships
Students pursuing a degree in the medical field who are concerned about raising costs of education may have an opportunity to alleviate some of the burden with scholarships, such as the one offered by Kaiser Permanente of Southern California.
The provider of healthcare and not-for-profit health plans has announced it will award a total of $300,000 in financial aid in the form of the Oliver Goldsmith Scholarship for students pursuing medical degrees. The goal of the award is to help promote and advance culturally responsive care.
Qualified candidates will attend their third or fourth year of medical school, and have demonstrated commitment to diversity through community service, clinical volunteerism, leadership or research.
The deadline is February 5, but the scholarship is awarded annually, and in 2009 the winners received a total of $60,000.
“It has been [our aim for a long time] to support scholarship programs to meet the needs of students faced with the increasing expense of pursuing their academic goals,” said Dr. Benjamin Chu, the organizations’ president.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, demand for physicians and surgeons is expected to grow by 22 percent over the next eight years, and the median annual salary for physicians practicing in medical specialties was $339,738 in 2008.
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