CAMBRIDGE - The Dr. Edward Leitão Memorial Scholarship Fund is present accepting applications for scholarships from Portuguese-American students funny successful pursuing medicine oregon different wellness careers that supply nonstop diligent contact.
One of the fund’s goals is to fulfill the request among the assemblage for Portuguese-speaking wellness professionals.
“We are thrilled with the community’s effect to the Dr. Edward Leitão Memorial Scholarship Fund,” said Dr. Helena Santos-Martins, co-founder and seat of the fund’s advisory committee. “Their generosity has enabled america to connection these scholarships, and we are excited to enactment much aboriginal wellness professionals who volition surely marque a quality successful our community. 2022 is simply a peculiar twelvemonth arsenic we instrumentality to celebrating aft a pandemic hiatus.”
Scholarships volition beryllium offered successful the pursuing amounts: $2,500 to medical/dental students, $2,000 to planetary postgraduate MDs pursuing residency successful the United States, $1,500 to college/allied heath/grad students, and $1,000 to precocious schoolhouse students. The fig of awards volition beryllium determined by the committee based connected funds and qualified applications.
To beryllium considered for these scholarships, applicants request to beryllium Portuguese oregon Portuguese-American and survey successful New England, and beryllium attending their inferior oregon elder twelvemonth of precocious school; beryllium enrolled successful a college/allied wellness oregon postgraduate program; oregon beryllium accepted to oregon attending medical/dental school.
Another class of applicants includes physicians who person obtained their MD grade extracurricular of the US (international aesculapian graduate) and who are presently moving towards applying to a residency programme successful this country.
All applicants are required to taxable an effort up to 500 words addressed to the Dr. Edward Leitão Memorial Scholarship Fund Committee, describing their connection and taste connections to the Portuguese-American assemblage and however they envision making a quality erstwhile they decorativeness their degrees.
Since these are merit-based scholarships, the applicants besides request to taxable their transcripts and 2 letters of proposal from their professors oregon world advisors.
All exertion documents should beryllium submitted by email to Dr. Helena Santos-Martins astatine drleitaofund@gmail.com until midnight of Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022.
The money was created successful 2015 successful the sanction of the much-loved and highly respected physician, who passed distant successful February of 2015. Dr. Edward Leitão practiced astatine the Cambridge Health Alliance for respective decades arsenic an internist and aesculapian director, caring for galore patients successful the Portuguese-speaking assemblage of the Cambridge/Somerville area.
The Advisory Committee plans to denote the assistance recipients by the extremity of December and contiguous the scholarships astatine their 2023 Annual Awards Luncheon, which volition instrumentality spot connected Sunday, Jan. 29 astatine Filarmónica de Santo António successful Cambridge.
For further eligibility requirements, candidates tin sojourn the website www.DrLeitaoScholarshipFund.org and/or interaction Dr. Helena Santos-Martins by email drleitaofund@gmail.com.
All donations to the Fund are tax-deductible. Information astir sponsorship/donation levels are disposable connected the website www.DrLeitaoScholarshipFund.org.
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