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July 26, 2017

Quinnipiac med school, foundation, endow $1M scholarship

Quinnipiac University’s medical school is matching a $500,000 gift from a West Hartford foundation to create a $1 million endowed scholarship for medical students training to become primary care physicians.

The Maximilian E. & Marion O. Hoffman Foundation Inc. awarded the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac $500,000 to create a primary care fellowship. By matching it, Quinnipiac will enable medical students to obtain a scholarship for full tuition at Netter.

Dr. Bruce Koeppen, dean of the School of Medicine, said the gift “facilitates our efforts to support students who have a passion for and commitment to the practice of primary care.”

In May, Quinnipiac graduated its first medical school class of 58 students, with nearly half beginning residency programs expected to lead to careers in primary care medicine.

Quinnipiac said foundation support is critical to its medical school, which opened in 2013 with a mission of alleviating some of the physician shortage facing the United States.

That shortage is expected to become more acute as demand for health care accelerates because of a growing, diversifying, and aging population, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. In primary care, AAMA anticipates a shortage between 14,900 and 35,600 physicians by 2025.

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