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White Coat Investor Scholarship 2024 Applications are Open

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Each year the White Coat Investor (WCI) offers a scholarship opportunity to students enrolled in full-time US professional schools for the 2024-5 year. Students must be in good academic standing in eligible professional schools, including medical, dental, law, podiatry, pharmacy, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, and veterinarian, among others. The stated goal of the scholarship is to reduce winning students’ indebtedness and to promote financial literacy in professional schools.

The lion’s share of the application is an 800 to 1200 word essay in one of two topics: Inspiring Stories or Financial. The deadline is August 31.

For more information please check out this web page.

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Highly Recommended Paid Summer Opportunity

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I was an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mass Media Science Fellow in 1995 (during medical school). The program was truly fantastic and life-altering.

Applications for this year’s AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship just opened on October 1 and will remain available through January 2, 2023. The scholarship is a 10-week summer program that places science, engineering, and math undergraduate and graduate students at media organizations across the nation – outlets like NPR, the Los Angeles Times, and WIRED. I worked at the Oregonian in Portland and had a tremendous time, learning how to write effectively and edit. I also gained an appreciation for the amazing public health influence journalists can have. It’s really an amazing program. 

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Awesome Paid Summer Opportunity

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I was an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mass Media Science Fellow in 1995. The program was truly fantastic and life-altering.

Applications for this year’s AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship just opened on October 1 and will remain available through January 1, 2021. This cycle’s fellowship dates are June 2 through August 17, 2021. Here’s the link to application information. The scholarship is a 10-week summer program that places science, engineering, and math undergraduate and graduate students at media organizations across the nation – outlets like NPR, the Los Angeles Times, and WIRED. I worked at the Oregonian in Portland and had a tremendous time, learning how to write effectively and edit. I also gained an appreciation for the amazing public health opportunities journalists have.

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White Coat Investor Scholarship Winners Announced

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For the past few years, the White Coat Investor has funded a scholarship for full-time professional students, including those in medical, osteopathic, dental, law, pharmacy, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, optometry, and podiatry schools. The goal is to both reduce the winning students’ debt burden and spread “an important message of financial literacy throughout medical, dental, and other professional schools.”

This year’s first place winner’s essay is here. It’s great and worth a read. Second through fifth places can be found here. Keep your eye out for next year’s contest. The financial support is significant.

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Race to the Bottom (In a Good Way)

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Thanks to NYU’s announcement that it will be eliminating tuition at its medical school, other institutions are reassessing their costs and graduates’ educational debt, as some experts predicted. Recently, Kaiser followed suit with a free tuition plan for their new medical school in Pasadena. Now, Yale is making overtures as well, lowering the financial burden for needy students by covering more costs with scholarships, instead of loans. Keep your eye out for what will likely be a revolution as more and more medical schools note that to compete for strong applicants, they must offer robust financial support.

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About Dr. Michelle Finkel

Dr. Michelle Finkel

Dr. Finkel is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. On completing her residency at Harvard, she was asked to
stay on as faculty at Harvard Medical School and spent five years teaching at the world-renowned Massachusetts General Hospital.
She was appointed to the Assistant Residency Director position for the Harvard Affiliated
Emergency Medicine Residency where she reviewed countless applications, personal statements and resumes. Read more

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