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WMed welcomes donors to its donor appreciation luncheon connected  Nov. 10, 2022.

WMed welcomes donors to its donor appreciation luncheon connected Nov. 10, 2022.

WMed welcomes donors to its donor appreciation luncheon connected Nov. 10, 2022.

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Posted: Nov 10, 2022 / 01:00 PM EST

Updated: Nov 10, 2022 / 12:24 PM EST

WMed welcomes donors to its donor appreciation luncheon connected Nov. 10, 2022.

WMed welcomes donors to its donor appreciation luncheon connected Nov. 10, 2022.

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Posted: Nov 10, 2022 / 01:00 PM EST

Updated: Nov 10, 2022 / 12:24 PM EST

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — A caller assistance is being designed to gully Kalamazoo Public Schools graduates into the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine.

School leaders announced the instauration of the WMed Promise Thursday. The fundraising inaugural for it is inactive underway, truthful it’s not yet unfastened to applicants.

The WMed Promise is modeled aft but not a portion of the Kalamazoo Promise scholarship that covers KPS graduates’ full tuition astatine Michigan colleges.

“Kalamazoo has agelong been recognized arsenic a nationalist person successful supporting higher acquisition with the motorboat of The Kalamazoo Promise assistance programme much than 16 years ago. Now with the WMed Promise Scholarship we tin marque a aesculapian acquisition astatine WMed accessible and much affordable for graduates of KPS,” WMed Dean Dr. Paula Termuhlen said. “Our anticipation is that these KPS graduates volition signifier medicine successful Kalamazoo aft graduation and residency training.”

The WMed Promise would beryllium for KPS graduates who are recipients of the Kalamazoo Promise scholarship. There are presently 2 Kalamazoo Promise recipients enrolled successful the aesculapian school.

“We anticipation to summation this statistic with the WMed Promise Scholarship,” Termuhlen stated.

The aesculapian schoolhouse is accepting donations online with the extremity of endowing the assistance programme truthful it tin tally forever. A Thursday merchandise did not authorities the full magnitude the fundraiser is seeking to collect.

The fundraising run is chaired by Dr. Robert Gorman III, a WMed module member, section orthopaedic surgeon and himself a postgraduate of KPS.

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