UAB School of Medicine Underrepresented in Medicine Senior Scholarship Program for Pediatrics
The Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is eager to announce that applications are being accepted for the Underrepresented in Medicine Senior Scholarship Program for Pediatrics. The DOP feels strongly that promotion of cultural diversity and equal opportunity enhances learning opportunities and leads to improved patient care. The Underrepresented in Medicine Senior Scholarship Program provides funding for visiting medical students to participate in four-week clinical rotations at Children’s of Alabama. Our goal is to improve awareness of and accessibility to training opportunities in Pediatrics at UAB amongst medical students of diverse cultural, socioeconomic, and ethnic backgrounds. Scholarship recipients will select their clinical rotation on a space-available basis. Recipients will be assigned a faculty member who will serve as a liaison throughout the rotation with opportunity to foster a long-standing mentor relationship. Applications for the current year will be accepted through May 1, 2019 and a recipient will be notified by May 15, 2019.
Scholarship Features:
- Four-week rotation as either an acting intern or elective student (view course listings)
- $2000 stipend to offset travel, housing, and living expenses
- Access to UAB’s medical library, Lister Hill Library
- Orientation to UAB’s Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs