2022 WCI Scholarship Winners — Inspirational - The White Coat Investor

By Dr. James M. Dahle, WCI Founder

Today and tomorrow, we'll beryllium introducing you to this year's WCI Scholarship recipients. We person been moving the WCI Scholarship for medical/professional students since 2015, giving distant hundreds of thousands of dollars successful currency to students to straight trim the indebtedness they look upon graduating from school.

The assistance besides serves arsenic an accidental to beforehand fiscal literacy among students and their module portion providing america an accidental to springiness backmost to the assemblage that has fixed america truthful much.

As a reminder, this year's assistance is divided betwixt 5 winners successful the “Inspirational” class and 5 winners successful the “Financial” category, depending connected the taxable of their submitted essay.

This year's contention saw 701 submissions—509 successful the inspirational class and 192 successful the fiscal category. In today's post, we'll spell implicit the winners successful the inspirational category. Tomorrow, we'll screen the fiscal category. All 10 of these individuals are expansive prize winners and divided the cookware of $78,410 evenly. Each victor takes location $7,841. Yes, we already person verified each victor is simply a pupil successful bully lasting astatine their institution.

We besides privation to widen a peculiar convey you to the dozens of unpaid judges, nary of whom are portion of the WCI staff.  The winners successful this contention are chosen earlier I ever work immoderate of the essays.

Also, here's a convey you to the sponsors who supported the program. Although WCI donates to the assistance from its profits, the winners would person overmuch little wealth without the sponsors. Thank you for supporting those who enactment specified a bully cause.

Platinum Level Contributors ($8,000 oregon more)

The White Coat Investor, LLC
Larry Keller (Physician Financial Services) – Disability and Life Insurance
Bob Bhayani (Dr Disability Quotes) – Disability and Life Insurance
Laurel Road – Student Loan Refinancing
Paul Sundin (Emparion) – Workplace Retirement Plans
Dr. Stephanie Pearson (PearsonRavitz) – Disability and Life Insurance

Gold Level Contributors ($1,500 oregon more)

Jon Appino (Contract Diagnostics) – Contract Review/Negotiation
Chad Chubb (WealthKeel LLC) – Financial Advising
Robert Kaplan (Kaplan Financial) – Disability and Life Insurance
Pattern – Disability and Life Insurance
Michael Relvas (MR Insurance) – Disability and Life Insurance
Dr. Robinson (Doctors Support Doctors, LLC) – Contract Review/Career Advice
Josh Mettle (Neo Home Loans) – Physician Mortgage Loans
Johanna Turner (Fox and Company Wealth Management) – Financial Advising

Silver Level Contributors 

Sandi Frith (Huntington Bank) – Physician Mortgage Loans
Thomas Hackett (NW Legacy Law) – Estate Planning

Bronze Level Contributors

Joseph Hinton
Miracle Uzoekwe

For each assistance winner, and successful nary peculiar order, we person included an excerpt from their effort and a nexus to the afloat station published elsewhere connected the site. Here are the winners successful the Inspirational category.

Treating Addiction Patients successful Their Own Language — Lily Nguyen

Our first winner is Lily Nguyen, a aesculapian pupil astatine the University of Arizona, an instauration adjacent and beloved to my heart. She writes an effort astir however experiences with her begetter and different addicted patients person inspired her to grow rehabilitation programs for non-English speakers. Here's an excerpt:

“On 1 horrible nighttime erstwhile his overconsumption drove my parent to telephone the police, she and my sister jumped from our 2nd communicative balcony to flight to the neighbors. My parent made the hard determination to not instrumentality maine with her and my begetter chose to tally from the police. She ever told maine it was due to the fact that she knew helium would ne'er wounded me. He grabbed maine and we scaled a cinderblock wall, ran crossed a acheronian parking lot, and hid down a large, brownish dumpster. I retrieve the large constabulary chopper overhead. After it disappeared, helium enactment maine connected his shoulders, and we walked successful the darkness.”

You tin work the remainder of the effort here.

The Promise of Radical Humility — Nina Fukuma

Our next winner is Nina Fukuma, a aesculapian pupil astatine USC who wrote astir a diligent she met successful the ED and befriended connected the wards. Here's an excerpt:

“Her archetypal admittance dated backmost to erstwhile she was a teen, coming to the ED with postpartum endometritis aft giving commencement to a child, unknowing of her HIV diagnosis. Her communicative was sickening and often near maine feeling existential, uncomfortable by the world that specified horrors existed. She had fallen done the cracks of our systems and seemed present to beryllium immune to the attempts we made to attraction for her with enactment aft enactment describing her past of noncompliance, assertive behavior, and AMAs.

For arsenic frail and sick, young and child-like, arsenic she appeared, weighing nary much than 70 pounds, her vitriol was explosive with anger. Violent curse words rattled the bladed walls of her room, stunning maine into soundlessness connected much than 1 occasion. It was exhausting to consciousness similar the punching container for her anger, and yet I recovered solace successful the committedness of extremist humility. I sought to the champion of my ability—despite the comfortableness and luxury of my ain privileged upbringing—to prosecute successful her suffering, to marque country for it and recognize it. The satellite had been horrible to her, handing her a beingness filled with unimaginable suffering.”

You tin work the remainder of the effort here.

Being There connected the Worst Day of Someone's Life — Emma Sand

Emma Sand, a aesculapian pupil astatine Western Michigan, wrote astir the mishap she had portion applying to aesculapian schoolhouse and however it has affected her desired vocation path. I enjoyed the effort due to the fact that 1 of the things I similar champion astir EM is being determination for radical connected 1 of the worst days of their lives. Here's an excerpt:

“The car connected with my body, sending maine 30 feet done the air. My recollection of the adjacent week successful the ICU is conscionable arsenic absent arsenic the mishap itself. My illustration read: subarachnoid hemorrhage, subdural hemorrhage, liver laceration, traumatic encephalon injury, fractured transverse process, capitate, and hamate, among different injuries . . . I started aesculapian schoolhouse 9 months aboriginal . . . Patients and their families travel into the infirmary and interact with the captious attraction squad connected what whitethorn perchance beryllium the worst time of their life; I cognize it was mine. To beryllium that idiosyncratic for idiosyncratic else, the doc who is moving their implicit hardest to support their diligent alive, would marque each of the different challenges worthy it. What an implicit privilege to beryllium the doc who gets to bash this. This is what I privation my vocation to be.”

You tin work the remainder of the effort here.

Radical Acceptance arsenic a Secret Weapon — Omar Alzayat

Omar Alzayat is simply a aesculapian pupil astatine UC Davis and wrote astir his experience being stateless arsenic an undergraduate student. Here's an excerpt:

“I was expected to beryllium receiving fiscal assistance from the section assemblage assemblage arsenic a freshman but was denied due to the fact that my begetter falsely claimed maine arsenic a babelike connected his taxes the aforesaid twelvemonth helium decided to spell backmost to his homeland of Syria. I wasn’t wholly upset with him, if I’m being honest. He worked a bid of unusual jobs passim the people of my childhood, including an extended stint arsenic an crystal pick motortruck driver, truthful helium wasn’t precisely flush with cash. I was much perplexed that I couldn’t person backing for surviving expenses and tuition owed to the information that my begetter seemingly made conscionable capable wealth handing retired SpongeBob popsicles from a motortruck helium did not own.

Nevertheless, I recovered myself stateless portion attempting to juggle 4 classes and a full-time occupation arsenic a waiter, portion simultaneously uncovering periods successful betwixt to ablution astatine the gym and lavation my apparel astatine a laundromat that was unfastened astatine sporadic and unpredictable hours. It was my predicament to own, truthful I decided to enarthrosis it to the fullest extent. At the time, I was each excessively acquainted with the conception of disallowing a dire condition to go interchangeable and synonymous with one’s identity. In my ain twisted way, I was determined to clasp the other attack of ensuring that my struggles would go an inseparable portion of my existence. Radical acceptance was my concealed weapon, and I ensured that it would go the instauration of my quality to flooded failure.”

You tin work the remainder of the effort here.

A New Stillness successful the House — Anima Shrestha

Our final winner successful the inspirational class is Anima Shrestha, a aesculapian pupil astatine the University of Colorado who wrote astir her sister's disablement and untimely decease and however it inspired her to enactment with the disabled and prosecute a vocation successful pediatric neurology. Here's an excerpt:

“. . . Sisterhood wasn’t astatine each what I expected. My small sister was calved with autism and respective developmental disabilities, galore of which went undiagnosed for years. Our puerility was marked by medications and confusion. Watching my sister conflict to walk, talk, and unrecorded the carefree beingness of children her age, each I wanted to bash was alleviate her pain. As I accompanied my sister to her doctor's appointments, I began to make an involvement successful medicine. The archetypal clip we visited her neurologist, helium ordered an MRI, and erstwhile I saw the scan of her encephalon with agleam bluish and orangish splotches, I was hooked. I decided to prosecute a vocation successful medicine to give myself to helping my sister . . . Then, unexpectedly, my sister passed away, and my satellite was plunged into achromatic and achromatic . . . I flew backmost to college, partially to flight the caller stillness successful the location we grew up successful and partially due to the fact that my parents insisted I implicit my past 2 years of assemblage connected time. But arsenic I tried to compression myself backmost into the mold of a bully pre-med student, I realized I had mislaid show of the future. How could I ideate a aboriginal without her successful it? It felt similar betrayal.”

You tin work the remainder of the effort here.

Congratulations to each 5 of the winners successful the inspirational category. May this wealth assistance you to scope your dreams without rather truthful overmuch fiscal interest holding you back.

And marque definite to cheque backmost time erstwhile we'll people the 5 winners successful the Financial category.