Leadership Initiatives is excited to announce their two HOSA-exclusive scholarships: the Marshall Bailly “Senior” Memorial Scholarship for the Advanced Medical & Public Health Internship and the Dr. Paul Kostecki Scholarship for the Advanced Medical Neuroscience Internship.
Both scholarships offer the opportunity for one full scholarship and fifteen partial scholarships to their medical Summer Internship Programs.
Throughout the Advanced Medical & Public Health Internship, participants learn about the four major diseases facing the developing world from doctors and medical professionals from Georgetown University. This knowledge will help interns diagnose a patient in real time using Oculus-Rift VR technology. Medical interns also develop public health campaigns to raise awareness and provide prevention methods to communities in need. These public health campaigns will be used throughout Bauchi, Nigeria, to improve the understanding of preventable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.
Additionally, interns travel to Howard University Simulation Center and have the rare opportunity to perform an upper endoscopy, an abdominal ultrasound, and learn how to draw blood using state-of-the-art simulation units. Finally, interns partner with a cadre of experts in surgery, medical research, emergency room medicine, and physical therapy to learn about future medical careers. Click here to watch our program video.
Participants in the Advanced Medical Neuroscience Internship intern for world-renowned neuroscientist and chief of Georgetown University’s neuroethics program, Dr. James Giordano. Over the course of seven days, interns participate in cutting-edge neuroscience experiments that explore the biological foundations of the brain, progressing from the cellular foundations of the neuron to an understanding of the sensory systems, and culminating with higher-order cognitive functions such as memory, emotion, and morality.
As a final project, interns design and propose an experiment related to cognitive neuroscience and neuroethics in order to focus and apply their understanding. Participants present these proposed experiments to leading neuroscientists, with the winning team writing a paper to be published on their theories. Click here to watch our program video.
You can find both scholarships and information about the application process here.
