Medical Student Scholarships
We value training and supporting the workforce of the future. We have a generous endowment and are pleased to offer scholarships to medical students in Northwest based medical schools. Please see the link below for information about our scholarship funds and requirements.
The TFME Medical Scholars Program strives to
- Enhance professional development of student physicians
- Reduce the cost of medical education
- Promote future practice in Oregon.
The 2024 TFME Scholar program will provide six (6) medical school scholarships in the amount of $5,000.00 each. TFME Scholars are invited to participate in the TFME professional development programs including distinguished lectureships on health policy and healthcare, the Physician Well-Being Conference and other TFME programs related to professional skills enhancement and medical excellence.
Check back in August 2024 for our 2025 scholarship application process.
If you have questions about the scholarships please e-mail Dr. Singer at esinger@tfme.org.
2023 Medical Scholarship recipients gathering in May 2023
2024 TFME and TFME Northwest Permanente Scholarship Recipients
March 28, 2024. For more information, please contact the Foundation.
Walter McDonald Scholarship: Elena Paz-Munoz
Elena Paz-Munoz is a medical student at Oregon Health & Science University. Elena’s leadership in teaching and service, her passion for equity, and her support of diverse communities (especially the OHSU Hispanic student community) wowed the scholarship selection committee. Elena hopes to become a dermatologist and serve her community in clinical practice.
Warren Jones Scholarship: Tyler Yeager
Tyler Yeager is a medical student at Oregon Health & Science University. Tyler shared his moving personal story of illness and recovery during medical school. He is honored for his deep passion for improving rural healthcare delivery, his research and interest in applying AI models to healthcare, and his resilience in the face of a complex health challenge. He hopes to become a pathologist in a rural health system.
NWP/TFME Scholarship: Liana Bloom
Liana Bloom is a medical student at Washington State University. Liana is a first-generation medical student with deep caregiving and community service experience. In her “headliner essay” she reminded us to improve health care with “small steps that matter”. Liana is committed to pursuing a residency program in family medicine.
NWP/TFME Scholarship: Gabriel Alemayehu
Gabriel is honored for his deep commitment to health equity locally and internationally (in Ethiopia). Before medical school, he founded low-cost learning centers in East Africa to address educational disparities. Ultimately his path led him to medicine and he moved back to the Pacific Northwest to complete his premedical courses. In the years he spent preparing to go to medical school, he worked as both a nursing aide and Lyft driver. He is passionate about using machine learning to simplify tools for diagnostic care, as well as improving surgical care and training. We are confident he will be a leader in Orthopedic Surgery and we are excited to see where his career path leads.
Joseph Bloom Scholarship: Spencer Hills
Spencer Hills is a medical student at Oregon Health & Science University. Spencer is passionate for rural healthcare delivery, nutrition, and primary care. He has experience volunteering in clinics for Portland’s unhoused population. He enjoys clinical teaching in direct primary care, and has been described as “effervescent” by friends and colleagues. We support his “sparkle” and passion for service and teaching with this award.
John Ulwelling Scholarship: David Dommermuth
David Dommermuth is a medical student at Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences. David’s career path to entering medical school was nontraditional, and fed his deep commitment to serving patients with physical and mental differences and disabilities. He has been a regional director and is now head coach for Skagit Valley Special Olympics. David is committed to bring caring to the forefront of his career as an emergency medicine physician.