{"id":76128,"date":"2019-10-25T10:42:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T14:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=76128"},"modified":"2019-10-28T08:58:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T12:58:39","slug":"fourth-year-students-awarded-ama-foundation-physicians-of-tomorrow-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2019\/10\/25\/fourth-year-students-awarded-ama-foundation-physicians-of-tomorrow-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth-year Students Awarded AMA Foundation Physicians of Tomorrow Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_76149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76149\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2019\/10\/Randolph_Vais-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76149 size-full\" width=\"460\" height=\"322\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simone Vais (l) and Martine Randolph (r)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\nSimone Vais and Martine Randolph, fourth-year medical students from BUSM, have received a Physicians of Tomorrow Scholarship from the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation. The $10,000 award will help defray the costs of their medical education.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Vais is currently applying for residencies in family medicine. Her clinical interests include adult inpatient medicine, addiction and women\u2019s health.\u00a0Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she completed her undergraduate education at Barnard College in New York City. After\u00a0graduating college, she spent a year teaching high school biology and STEM in New York before moving to Boston for medical school.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Vais is interested in health care quality improvement, with a\u00a0focus on improving access to care for underserved populations. She is\u00a0working on expanding the use of Uber Health\u2014a health care branch of the Uber platform that enables providers to\u00a0schedule and pay for rides\u00a0on behalf of\u00a0their patients. Ms. Vais was honored for this work with a Lancet Global Health Award for Best Student Poster.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Randolph received the Underrepresented in Medicine (formerly the Minority Scholars) Award. This award is given to African American, Latino\/Hispanic, or Native Americans\/Native Hawaiians\/Alaska Natives scholars who demonstrate a dedication to serving vulnerable or underserved populations.<\/p>\n<p>Raised in Nairobi, Kenya, Ms. Randolph graduated from Georgetown University and was headed for a career in international development, but after serving in the Peace Corps in Indonesia, decided her calling was medicine.\u00a0She is involved in various diversity programs and is currently applying for residencies in family medicine.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the average median debt burden for medical school graduates was $190,000. The Physicians of Tomorrow Awards provide financial assistance to medical students facing medical school debt. Since 1950, the Foundation has provided more than $60 million in financial aid to exceptional medical students across the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $10,000 award will help defray the costs of medical education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89,91,156],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76128"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76151,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76128\/revisions\/76151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}