The cycle to apply for the 2024 CCPA Medical Student Scholarship is open NOW!
Apply here.
Underrepresented in medicine* first, second, third and fourth-year medical students are eligible and encouraged to apply.
PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO APPLY.
The following four (4) required documents must be typed and uploaded via the application. HANDWRITTEN APPLICATIONS WILLL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
1) The completed application of students from Illinois medical schools. (completed via the link)
2) An official statement of need from your medical school’s Financial Aid Office.
3) A NON-PDF application essay or personal statement of 500 words or less.
APPLICATIONS EXCEEDING 500 WORDS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
4) Resumé or Curriculum Vitae (CV). Describe your proven leadership skills, your
extracurricular commitment to social justice and demonstrated promotion of
health in the African-American community.
The deadline for submission of all applications/materials is 11:59 PM CST March 8, 2024
The scholarship recipients will be notified Wednesday March 22, 2024.
About CCPA: CCPA of metropolitan Chicagoland is the local chapter of the National Medical Association (NMA). The NMA is the nation’s oldest and largest organization representing African-American physicians and health professionals in the United States. It is the collective voice of more than 30,000 African-American physicians and the patients they serve.
The NMA was founded in 1895, during an era in US history when the majority of African Americans were disenfranchised. The segregated policy of “separate but equal” dictated virtually every aspect of society. Racially exclusive “Jim Crow” laws dominated employment, housing, transportation, recreation, education, and medicine. Black Americans were subjected to all of the injustices inherent in a dual medical care system.
The NMA promotes the collective interests of physicians and patients of African descent. We perform this mission by serving as the collective voice of physicians of African descent and a leading force for parity in medicine, elimination of health disparities and promotion of optimal health.
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Underrepresented in medicine (URM) means those racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the
medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population [Adopted by the American Association of
Medical Colleges (AAMC) Executive Committee, March 19, 2004] URM can be defined as African American/Black,
Latina/Latino, Alaskan/Hawaiian Native, Hispanic American and Native American.