Ed and Melissa Loniewski Medically Underserved Scholarship
Sponsored by Dr. and Mrs. Loniewski
One Osteopathic Medical student will receive a scholarship of up to $3,000 donated by Dr. and Mrs. Loniewski for completing a medically underserved experience nationally or internationally in the field of primary care or a specialty or subspecialty.
Requirements for consideration:
- Student Osteopathic Medical Association active membership.
- Demonstrate, through extracurricular activities and/or community service, an interest in practicing medicine in an underserved area.
- any experience in an underserved area, whether in the United States or abroad.
- The experience can be any time length and can be completed in any area of medicine, including primary health care as well as specialties and sub-specialties.
- Once chosen for the scholarship, the training site may not be changed without verbal and/or written consent of the Public Health Director.
Requirements for consideration:
- Student Osteopathic Medical Association active membership.
- Demonstrate, through extracurricular activities and/or community service, an interest in practicing medicine in an underserved area.
- any experience in an underserved area, whether in the United States or abroad.
- The experience can be any time length and can be completed in any area of medicine, including primary health care as well as specialties and sub-specialties.
- Once chosen for the scholarship, the training site may not be changed without verbal and/or written consent of the Public Health Director.
Fall 2020 Recipient
Joanna Sajdlowska, OMS III at
University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
It is with deepest gratitude that I extend a ‘thank you’ to you and the SOMA Foundation in receipt of the Medically Underserved Scholarship. It is through my upbringing as a first generation Polish-American, a year of AmeriCorps service, health disparities research and community outreach initiatives that I have developed a sincere passion for serving underserved and marginalized communities. It is with certainty that I plan on continuing the mission of this scholarship during a year of primary care immersion in rural Maine, through the elective Longitudinal Immersion Clerkship (LIC) program. Participating in the LIC allows for integration into one primary care office, and the opportunity to identify barriers to care, to conduct research that addresses and bridges gaps in the local care delivered, and to become an advocate to patients that I develop longitudinal relationships with. Receiving this scholarship is an honor, and a cherished reminder to continue this advocacy work as a future osteopathic physician, which I intend to do. Thank you!