Eight Boonshoft School of Medicine students receive Choose Ohio First Scholarships

Two additional Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine students were selected to receive a $30,000 Primary Care Medical Student Choose Ohio First Scholarship (PCMS-COF) for the 2015-2016 academic year, bringing the total number of Wright State students receiving this scholarship to eight.

The two new recipients are first-year medical student Jarrod Wurm, of Republic, Ohio, and fourth-year medical student Trisha Miller, of Delphos, Ohio. Both are interested in pediatrics.

The following continuing students receive continued PCMS-COF support this year: third-year medical students R.J. Sontag, of Milford and Columbus, Ohio, and Caleb Dukeman, of Beavercreek; and fourth-year medical students Cara Wolters, of Sidney, Ohio, Thao Tran, of Dayton, Eric Thuney, of Centerville, and Austin J. Williams, of Trenton, Ohio.

The PCMS-COF program was created in 2010 with the passage of Ohio HB 198, Ohio’s patient-centered medical home legislation. Acting on Gov. John Kasich’s recommendation, the Ohio General Assembly appropriated funding for the program in the current biennial budget. Under PCMS-COF, 50 medical students throughout Ohio can receive up to $120,000 in scholarship funding over their four-year medical education.

Recipients are selected from Case Western Reserve University, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Ohio University, Ohio State University, University of Toledo, University of Cincinnati and Wright State University.

Scholarship recipients must be Ohio residents. They must show a commitment to community service. They also must commit to a residency in family practice, primary care internal medicine, primary care pediatrics or combined internal medicine and pediatrics in Ohio. After completing the residency, each recipient must agree to practice full time in Ohio for at least three years in primary care (family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, medicine/pediatrics or family medicine/psychiatry). As primary care physicians, they must serve Medicaid patients.

“We’re honored that eight of our medical students were selected to receive Choose Ohio First Primary Care Scholarships,” said Gary LeRoy, M.D., associate dean for student affairs and admissions at the Boonshoft School of Medicine. “These students will help strengthen the quality of primary care in Ohio.”