Visiting Student URiM Scholarship

Albany Medical Center is committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive work environment, and the Department of Emergency Medicine is excited to announce our URiM Visiting Student Scholarship program.  This scholarship targets students who are devoted to the advancement of increasing diversity in medicine and serving underserved communities.

 

This scholarship program will provide selected applicants with a $2000 stipend while students participate in the care of patients at the busiest Level I trauma center in the state of New York.  Students will also be paired with an EM faculty mentor who will provide individual advising and assist them in navigating the road to residency.  Students may also elect to receive specific leadership training at our unique academic center where the CEO and CMO of the Hospital as well as the Associate Deans of GME are all emergency medicine faculty.  

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Who can apply for this scholarship?

• Visiting 4th year students in the US medical schools in good standing at an LCME accredited US medical school.

• Students who are traditionally underrepresented in medicine, specifically those who identify with the ethnicity of Black/African American, Latino/a, Native American/Alaska Native and Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian. Consideration may also be given to those who are nonconforming gender identification or sexual orientation and significant socioeconomic stressors.

• Student must have successfully completed their core MS3 rotations: Internal Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, OB/GYN, Family Medicine

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Please contact Dr. Furlano, furlane@amc.edu for additional information