Scholarships
Applicants to the MD program at the Feinberg School of Medicine may be eligible for merit scholarships through the Admissions Office. All students admitted to the MD program are automatically considered for merit scholarships; no application is required. The Office of Admissions will send out notifications of merit scholarships in mid-to-late March.
Outside Scholarships Opportunities
Find out how scholarships will be applied to your account.
As you consider applying for these opportunities, please refer to the sample CV and checklist in the Residency Application Guide updated for 2022-23.
Students may contact the Northwestern Writing Place which can help you at any stage of the writing process, from talking about ideas, to developing a plan, to revising and editing a draft.
- AAUW Educational Foundation (deadline Jan. 10)
- Abbott & Fenner Business Consultant Scholarship (deadline June 10)
- Air Force Health Professions Scholarship
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (deadline August 15)
- American Medical Association Excellence in Medicine Award (deadline March 4)
- American Medical Association Underrepresented in Medicine Award (deadline Feb. 28)
- American Society of Hematology Minority Medical Student Award Program (deadline Jan. 11)
- Army Health Professions Scholarship
- Auxiliary of Good Shepherd Hospital Scholarship (deadline April 17)
- Blair County Medical Society Scholarship (deadline Sept. 30)
- Chinese American Physicians Society (deadline April 1)
- Dr. Charles E. Gavin Memorial Foundation Scholarship (deadline April 28)
c/o Elmer L. Washington, PhD
Chair, Scholarship Committee
P.O. Box 368
Park Forest, IL 60466 - The DuPage Medical Society Foundation (deadline April 30)
- Dr. U. R. Plante Medical Scholarship (deadline April 15)
- The Foundation of the Pennsylvania Medical Society
- Herbert W. Nickens Award (deadline April 7)
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund (deadline April 26)
- Howard Lapsley Memorial Scholarship Fund for Medical Education (deadline May 1)
- Indian Health Service Scholarship Program (deadline March 28)
- Jackson County Medical Society
c/o Kim Balsano
115 Steven Dr.
Murphysboro, IL 62966
618-457-0404, ext. 231 - Japanese Medical Society Scholarship (deadline July 8)
- Jewish Vocational Service (deadline Feb. 1)
- Joanna F. Reed Medical Scholarship Trust
c/o South Alabama Trust Company Inc.
Ms. Elaine Catoe
P.O. Box 469
Brewton, AL 36427-0469 - Kaiser Permanente Northern California Medical Student Scholarship (deadline March 1)
- Kaiser Permanente Oliver Goldsmith MD, Scholarship (deadline Feb. 5)
- Korean American Scholarship Foundation (deadline July 8)
- LaPorte Hospital Foundation (deadline March 19)
- LaSalle County Medical Society Special Education Fund
Janet Beck Jakupcak
151 Washington St.
Marseilles, IL 61341
815-795-2171
docbeck523@hotmail.com - League of Unite Latin American Citizens (LULAC) National Scholarship Fund
- National Medical Fellowships
- Morris Hospital Foundation-Hugo Avalos Endowed Scholarship (deadline April 4)
- National Health Service Corps
- National Medical Fellowships
- National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (deadline Feb. 10)
- Navajo Nation Scholarship and Financial Assistance Program (deadline June 25)
- Navy Health Professions Scholarship
- NIH Medical Research Scholar's Program (deadline Jan. 11)
- Nesbitt Medical Student Foundation (deadline June 1)
- Oliver Goldsmith, M.D. Scholarship (deadline Jan. 20)
- Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans (deadline Nov. 1)
- Peter V. Westhaysen Medical Education Trust (deadline June 15)
First Midwest Bank Trust Division
10322 Indianapolis Blvd.
Highland, IN 46322
219-853-3534 - Pisacano Leadership Foundation (deadline March 1)
- Polish-American Medical Society (deadline Feb. 28)
- Association of Black Cardiologists Scholarships (deadline Aug. 15)
- Rotary Club of Miami (deadline Jan. 25)
- Ruth G. White Scholarship Fund and the Dorothy C. Wisner Scholarship Fund
5332 Brookside Court
Pleasanton, CA 94588
925-462-4720
daisybaer@aol.com - Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara (deadline Jan. 31)
- The Dr. Max Thorek Student Loan Fund
- Turkish American Doctors Association of Midwest (deadline Feb. 29)
- TYLENOL Future Care Scholarship (deadline June 30)
- Vietnamese American Medical Association VAMA Scholarship Program (deadline Sept. 15)
- Wellsford and Mildred Clark Memorial Scholarship (deadline April 30)
- Worchester District Medical Society (deadline July 31)