Medical ,Nursing Scholarship

WayOutWestMom
Thu, 24 Dec 2020 21:26:01 +0000

There are two service-for-scholarship programs for medical and dental school. One (HPSP) requires entering a branch of military service before starting med/dental school and completing a military residency. Scholarship recipients owe at least 4 years of military service post-residency. Choice of specialty isn’t restricted but the needs of the military come first when matching. The other (NHSC) requires recipients to enter a primary care specialty (FM, IM without subspecialization, OB/GYN, geriatrics, pediatrics) or general dentistry and work in a federally designated medically underserved area for 1 year full time for every year of scholarship received.

Admission into either program is highly competitive.

NHSC is open to advanced practice nursing students. (But not to BSN students.)

Some states offer service for scholarship programs similar to the NHSC.

Other than those 2 programs, any scholarship money offered to med or dental students comes from individual med/dental schools themselves. In general, students should expect to be full pay for health profession professional school.

Both my daughters received modest academic scholarships from their in-state public med school. ( By modest, I mean a few thousand$/year.)

The vast majority of health profession students pay for their education by taking out federal student and Grad Plus loans.

BTW, NYU’s med acceptance rate in not just in the single digits, it’s under 3%.