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Medical Association of Atlanta Scholarship Impact

Making Student Dreams A Reality

Monique Merritt-Atkins, M.D. medical school, we are not

2016 MSM graduate able to work and most of
the funding either comes
2016 Medical Association of Atlanta Scholarship from scholarships or loans.
2017-19 Morehouse Healthcare Resident The scholarship support

• What kind of impact did a scholarship have on you? I received allowed some-
Receiving a scholarship meant that someone believed one like me to fulfill her
in me, just as much as I believed in myself. It let me dreams.
know that someone else sees something in me as much • What would you like to
as I see something in myself. And that’s a sense of say to the Medical Asso-
hope. ciation of Atlanta who
• What have you accomplished that you are most provided you scholarship
proud of? I am so proud of making it through this support? Thank you for the impact you have had on
journey and graduating from medical school, and my life. Serving the less fortunate is a passion for me
I can’t thank my friends and family enough. I was because I come from similar circumstances. MSM has
raised by a single mother. My father was an alcoholic inspired me to be a community leader, in addition to
and my mom pretty much did everything for me. In being a physician.

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