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Two Opportunities for Access:
Your commitment to expanding educational Morehouse School of Medicine students tend
opportunities for underrepresented students, and the to come from households with an average
championing of Morehouse School of Medicine’s income of $70,000.
mission is the reason we look to you for partnership.
While Morehouse School of Medicine tuition
The Anthony and Beatrice Welters Regional has been kept lower than average, the average
Medical Campus debt load for our graduating students exceeds
the national average. Debt load not only
The The Anthony and Beatrice Welters Regional prohibits students from choosing to pursue
Medical Campus will serve undergraduate service in underrepresented communities and
medical students in their third and fourth years of needed specialties like primary care, it can
medical school within CommonSpirit’s vast prohibit students from the pursuit of medical
national health network of diverse patient school entirely.
populations and the signature, culturally
competent curriculum of Morehouse School of The Anthony and Beatrice Welters Equal
Medicine. Access Endowed Scholarship will ease the
financial burden of tuition and empower the
The endowment will fund additional, critical next generation of healthcare leaders as they
infrastructure and housing required to expand train in family medicine, internal medicine,
enrollment at one of three regional sites where pediatrics, geriatrics and surgery. Educational
students will complete their clinical rotations and access for our medical students means low-
care for diverse, underserved communities. Your income communities and communities of
generous investment may be designated to color will see themselves reflected in the
support any one of the three Regional Medical clinicians committed to their care.
Campuses and will be recognized with campus
naming. In its truest meaning, scholarship includes
advancing knowledge and furthering a
The Anthony and Beatrice Welters Equal Access professional body of knowledge. In addition to
Endowed Scholarship supporting a portion of students’ tuition and
fees, this investment will be used to continually
modernize the curriculum and embed best
Financial concerns can be significant for practices through problem based learning,
Morehouse School of Medicine students. Though quality assessment and performance
the average household income of students improvement and cultural competency.
entering medical school is $175,000,
