Foundation Offers Medical Student Scholarship to Berks, Lehigh and Northampton County Residents

Date: June 30, 2011 Media Contact: Deb Monko
    The Foundation of the
Pennsylvania Medical Society
For Immediate Release   (717) 558-7854

 

(Harrisburg, PA) The Foundation of the Pennsylvania Medical Society is offering its annual $1,000 Myrtle Siegfried, MD, and Michael Vigilante, MD, Scholarship to first-year medical students who are residents of Berks, Lehigh, or Northampton counties. Requirements include full-time enrollment in an accredited U.S. medical school.

To help local medical students offset the cost of education, former Foundation trustee, Elena Pascal, and her sister, Carla Vigilante, established this scholarship in 1999 in memory of their parents who were prominent Allentown physicians.

The Foundation of the Pennsylvania Medical Society, a nonprofit affiliate of the Pennsylvania Medical Society, sustains the future of medicine in Pennsylvania by providing programs that support medical education, physician health, and excellence in practice.

For an application, call the Foundation at (717) 558-7854. The deadline is September 30.

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