Scholarships Make Dreams of Medical School Come True

Описание: Students who dream of becoming doctors face tremendous hurdles. Being accepted by a medical school is one challenge. Often the bigger hurdle is cost. Tuition, board, and fees over the four years of medical school can easily total $200,000. New MD's walk away with their degree, and in many cases, the smothering burden of debt.

Debt can force young doctors to choose medical specialties based on projected income rather than their true passion. It can also force them to postpone things like marriage and children.

Leaders of the University of South Carolina (USC) School of Medicine Greenville recognize that the burden of cost must be removed for as many medical students as possible. The USC School of Medicine Greenville is committed to raising an endowment of $50 million for the purpose of providing scholarships to deserving students.

In this Discussion with Dean Jerry Youkey, he explains that an investment in the USC School of Medicine Greenville's $50 million scholarship endowment is a powerful investment not just in individual medical students, but also in the Upstate community. Data shows that young doctors often choose to practice in the community where they attended medical school.

"Growing its own" doctors with the help of scholarships and in the diverse clinical environment of GHS, is a way the USC School of Medicine Greenville can help ensure that residents of the Upstate have access to quality doctors in the future. This is critical at a time when communities across the country are experiencing a shortage of doctors.

The scholarship endowment also allows the USC School of Medicine Greenville to recruit the best and brightest students, who often choose which medical school to attend based on the scholarship money they receive. It will support the recruitment of a diverse class of students who represent the state and nation's increasingly diverse population. As the USC School of Medicine Greenville expands its student population -- from 50 first-year students today to 100 first-year students by 2015 -- it can award more scholarships. Finally, it eliminates the need to keep going back to the community for donations.

In this compelling video, Dean Youkey adds that anything we can do to remove the financial barriers to attending the USC School of Medicine Greenville for promising young people who dream of becoming doctors is money well spent.