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What are some key steps to ensure that there’s equitable access to high quality health care for everyone? 🤔 NMF identifies and supports tomorrow’s diverse health care leaders who will have the knowledge, skills, cultural humility, and commitment to achieve health equity. However, the burden of medical school debt is a significant challenge for aspiring doctors, especially those from chronically underrepresented communities. The current racial wealth gap adds a layer of adversity. For example, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, on average, for every $1 of white family wealth, Black and Hispanic families have only 24 cents of wealth. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the average medical student debt reached a staggering $200,000+ in 2021, a sum that doesn’t include undergraduate debt. This financial strain often discourages brilliant students from pursuing their dream of becoming doctors, impacting the diversity within the medical field. By supporting organizations like National Medical Fellowships, Inc., YOU can help alleviate this burden. Invest in NMF for GivingTuesday at notyourtypicaltuesday.org and be a part of the change. NMF provides scholarships, mentorship, and leadership development opportunities to diverse medical students, ensuring that talented individuals can pursue their passion for medicine without being held back by financial constraints. Your contribution can empower the next generation of doctors, nurses, and health care leaders, making health care more inclusive and accessible for everyone. #DiversityInMedicine #MedicalStudent #GivingTuesday #HealthCare #NationalPhilanthropyDay

A $1 billion gift to Johns Hopkins University from billionaire Mike Bloomberg will make medical school free for most students and increase financial aid for those enrolled in nursing, public health, and other graduate programs. In a Monday letter in the Bloomberg Philanthropies annual report, Bloomberg addressed the dual challenges of declining health and education. The gift marks an emphatic endorsement of the value of higher learning at a time when academia increasingly has been under political attack. “As the U.S. struggles to recover from a disturbing decline in life expectancy, our country faces a serious shortage of doctors, nurses, and public health professionals — and yet, the high cost of medical, nursing, and graduate school too often bars students from enrolling,” wrote Bloomberg, a 1964 graduate of Johns Hopkins and the founder of the Bloomberg business and financial data news company. “By reducing the financial barriers to these essential fields, we can free more students to pursue careers they’re passionate about — and enable them to serve more of the families and communities who need them the most.” https://lnkd.in/erBza-RS

🎓 𝙀𝙭𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙀𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣!🩺 The Albert Einstein College of Medicine has set a groundbreaking precedent by offering tuition-free education to all its students, thanks to a monumental $1 billion donation. This transformative initiative promises to reshape the future of healthcare education and accessibility. 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: The initiative underscores a crucial shift in how medical education can be approached, prioritizing accessibility to cultivate excellence. It challenges the traditional norms of medical school financing and could set a precedent for other institutions to follow. 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴-𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲:This model could lead to a more diverse and debt-free new generation of healthcare professionals, potentially impacting areas like primary care, where there is a significant need but often less financial incentive compared to specialized fields. 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗽𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: The donation highlights the significant impact philanthropy can have on education, particularly in fields where the cost of training is a major barrier to entry. It raises questions about the sustainability of such models and the potential for replication by other institutions. The Albert Einstein College of Medicine's move to tuition-free education represents a significant milestone in higher education, particularly in the medical field, where the cost of education can be prohibitively expensive. This initiative not only broadens access to medical education but also serves as a model for how philanthropy can facilitate significant changes in the landscape of higher education, promoting diversity, equity, and excellence in the medical profession. We #SoDRM look to follow this model in near future!💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿 What is your costs of intelligence? #MedicalEducation #DiversityInMedicine #HealthcareInnovation #Philanthropy #FutureOfHealthcare

A new medical school by Northern Arizona University will be part of an effort by the state's public university system to fill gaps in Arizona's health care workforce. The College of Community Medicine will offer: 🚑 An accelerated, six-year program from a bachelor's to a medical degree. 💵 A low or debt-free option for in-state students, with tuition assistance programs aimed at keeping graduates in Arizona for primary care practice. Programs like this help our state towards the #Achieve60AZ goal, proving that Arizona has #EverythingToGain when we invest in education programs across the state. https://lnkd.in/gcC5yXjS

Increasing diverse representation among med students is an objective that can and should be accomplished with a variety of tactics, but where direct, race- or gender- specific outreach is being banned, institutions can focus their efforts on innovating the criteria sets that so often see historically excluded groups prevented entry and access. Personally, I'm inspired by the work the University of Manitoba has done to transform the admissions criteria to their critically important and highly competitive Masters of Physician Assistant program. You can read about their equitable innovations here, and be inspired to find ways to de-bias your own institution's program entry requirements. https://lnkd.in/gdvTtXs https://lnkd.in/gJVgucWt.

With a new $1 BILLION gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies, Mike Bloomberg and University President Ron Daniels continue to show bold leadership at The Johns Hopkins University. By combining vision with financing, they continue to move the university away from systems that favor legacy and wealthy students to systems that favor students with outstanding achievement and potential, regardless of their families' socioeconomic status. "Beginning in fall 2024, Hopkins will offer #freetuition for students pursuing an MD who come from families earning under $300,000, a figure that represents 95% of all Americans. Additionally, Hopkins will cover living expenses on top of tuition and fees for medical students from families that earn up to $175,000, a threshold inclusive of the vast majority of families in the U.S. Nearly two-thirds of current and entering medical students at Johns Hopkins will immediately qualify for either free tuition or free tuition plus living expenses." This new gift is on top of Bloomberg's record 2018 gift of $1.8 BILLION to undergraduate financial aid at Hopkins, which absolutely transformed the undergraduate student body. "The number of undergraduate students entering Hopkins from low-income backgrounds and/or who are the first in their families to attend college (FLI) has grown by 43% since the Bloomberg gift went into effect. Today, FLI students make up nearly a third of the Hopkins undergraduate population, surpassing most other #IvyLeague and Ivy League–adjacent institutions." I'm so proud of my alma mater ❤️ for its vision and grateful to Mike Bloomberg for choosing to reinvest so much of his wealth into issues of systemic unfairness in elite higher education, which has such a profound impact on society at large. #studentaid #financialaid #graduatestudents #leadership #socialjustice #firstgen #highereducation #philanthropy #ESG #gratitude #corporateculture #organizationalculture

As I’ve said before, tuition free medical school does NOT change what physicians do as a career and is NOT an effective way to enhance primary care. Kudos to Bloomberg for putting income restrictions on his historic gift to The Johns Hopkins University covering tuition for students by restricting the tuition assistance to families who earn less than $300K/year. But when it comes to incentivizing med school students to go into under-staffed specialties like primary care, we have learned that free tuition is not the solution. What's more, at this point, it’s not clear that free med school tuition increases more minorities or other under-represented groups going into medicine. The US needs more doctors, especially from certain backgrounds and in certain specialties. Free tuition is great, but it needs to be more specifically targeted with strings attached. #healthcareonlinkedin #medicalschool #medicalschooltuition #primarycare #physicianshortage #tuitionfree

The Covid-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on the challenges of doctors, nurses and other health care professionals; the resulting stress and burnout also caused many to leave the field, and at a time when an aging population is putting more demands on health care. This week there was some good news on this front: Mike Bloomberg and the Bloomberg Philanthropies gifted The Johns Hopkins University with $1 billion to cover full tuition for medical students whose families earn less than $300,000. The gift 🎁 will also cover living expenses and fees for those making less than $175,000. As Bloomberg shared, "By reducing the financial barriers to these essential fields, we can free more students to pursue careers they’re passionate about – and enable them to serve more of the families and communities who need them the most." https://lnkd.in/gJ2dThE2

I am thrilled for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where both my father and brother earned their degrees. But I have to believe there is a better way to fund the education of medical professionals in this country. Pop Quiz: 1.      On average, which professional degree program takes the longest to complete: MBA (business)? JD (attorney/law)? MD (medical doctor)? 2.      Which professional degree program has the most expensive total tuition: MBA? JD? MD? 3.      Which professional degree has a starting salary of less than $100K annually: MBA? JD? MD To be fair, I am the parent of a medical student, so this is a real situation for our family – like every other medical family.

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