Andrew Register (Class of 2026) was precocious selected arsenic a Mercer University School of Medicine (MUSM) Nathan Deal Scholar, announced MUSM Dean Jean Sumner, M.D.
Nathan Deal Scholars are selected based connected their beardown ties to agrarian Georgia, character, enactment qualities, assemblage engagement and their likelihood of serving successful rural, underserved Georgia aft their assistance obligations are met. The recipients person 85-100% of tuition for up to 4 world years.
“The Nathan Deal Scholarship enables and supports students who privation to signifier successful agrarian communities and go outstanding physicians. These scholars correspond the highest committedness to providing fantabulous wellness attraction to agrarian Georgians,” said Dr. Sumner. “The assistance removes a immense fiscal load of aesculapian schoolhouse indebtedness which has been a perceived hurdle for doctors going into little populated areas. With this fiscal support, students tin program connected practicing prime medicine successful the tiny towns they cognize and love.”
The ngo of investing successful students from agrarian Georgia truthful that they tin instrumentality to their hometowns virtually debt-free and beryllium educated to service the rural, underserved communities of Georgia is what drew Register to the Nathan Deal Scholarship.
“I americium honored to beryllium a recipient of the Nathan Deal Scholarship,” said Register. “I applied due to the fact that of my beardown tendency to signifier successful a agrarian underserved community.”
Register knows the wellness attraction struggles successful the underserved, agrarian areas of Georgia and hopes to someday springiness backmost to his hometown community.
“We program connected moving backmost to the southwest Georgia country erstwhile I implicit residency,” helium added. “I anticipation to supply prime attraction and marque a semipermanent interaction to the assemblage successful which I practice.”
Register is the spouse of Annie Bridges Register, lad of Brinson and Libby Register, and member of Charles and Annie Grace Register.
“The Nathan Deal Scholars volition marque a quality successful the wellness presumption of Georgians,” added Dr. Sumner. “This assistance is 1 much mode Mercer is reinforcing its committedness to agrarian Georgia.”
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