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Student Financial Services

The physicians who support the Student Financial Services program of the Foundation of the Pennsylvania Medical Society are committed to providing financial aid to future physicians. The program receives a portion of every Medical Society member’s dues and uses these gifts to assist Pennsylvania residents who are attending a Pennsylvania medical school. Additionally, several individual physician families and physician groups have established named funds within the Foundation to provide annual scholarship awards to medical students.

During 2010 we offered the following assistance, made possible by generous physician philanthropists:

Medical Student Loans
For the year 2010, the Foundation disbursed $361,625 in loans to 76 students for their medical education. Including the prior year borrowers, Student Financial Services manages 488 active student loan accounts and maintains a current principal balance of over $4.7 million.

Since 1948, physician philanthropists have distributed over $17.3 million in aid to 4,260 students. Donate Now

Scholarships
Montgomery County Medical Society Scholarship Fund
In 2010, the Montgomery County Medical Society’s (MCMS) Scholarship Fund, housed within the Foundation, reached a funded level sufficient to support award distributions. MCMS established the fund with proceeds from repayments on its student loan program and charitable contributions from its members. The fund’s purpose is to award scholarships to deserving first-year medical students from Montgomery County. The Foundation is pleased to collaborate with MCMS in its efforts to sustain the future of medicine in Pennsylvania.

For information on establishing a scholarship fund, click here.

Awards and Winners
This past year, the Foundation provided support for eight medical student scholarships (see list below); we awarded a total of $40,500 to 19 students.

 

  Allegheny County Medical Society (ACMS) Medical Student Scholarships  
  In Memory of Gilbert A. Friday, MD, Scholarship:  

$2500 Recipient:  

Rebecca G. Pomerantz
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

  

 

$2,000 Recipients:  

Andrew H. Leuenberger
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Joy K. Ruff
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Alliance Medical Education Scholarship (AMES)  

 

 The Robert and Arlene Oyler Award of the Alliance Medical Education Scholarship:  

$3,000 Recipient:  

Kevin M. Bernstein
Drexel University College of Medicine

  

 

 The Dr. William J. West Jr., MD, Scholarship of the Alliance Medical Education Scholarship:  

$2,500 Recipient:  

Laura J. Spece
Penn State University College of Medicine


  

$2,500 Recipients:  

Deepshikha Charan
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Tobias C. Long
Penn State University College of Medicine

Matthew J. McClain
Jefferson Medical College

Christine K. Rauscher
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Joy K. Ruff
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Christopher G. Weese
Drexel University College of Medicine

Nicholas G. Zaorsky
Temple University School of Medicine

  

Endowment for South Asian Students of Indian Descent  

$2,000 Recipient:  

Umang Patel
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

  

 

 Lehigh County Medical Auxiliary's Scholarship and Education Fund, Inc. (LeCoMASE) Scholarship  

$2,500 Recipient:  

Todd A. Yezefski
Tufts University School of Medicine

  

Lycoming County Medical Society Scholarship  

$2,000 Recipient:  

Ahmareen Baten
New York University School of Medicine

  

Montgomery County Medical Society Scholarship  

$1,000 Recipients:  

Jaime R. Fineman
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Ye Tao
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

 

 Myrtle Siegfried, MD, and Michael Vigilante, MD, Scholarship  

$1,000 Recipient:  

Punit Singh
Penn State University College of Medicine

  

Scott A. Gunder, MD, DCMS Presidential Scholarship  

$1,500 Recipient:  

Laura J. Spece
Penn State University College of Medicine

  

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