The Hearst Foundation has awarded the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University a $100,000 grant to help medical students pursue their research projects and alleviate their debt.
With the three-year grant, the medical school plans to support up to 30 students as they complete their summer research and culminating capstone projects. The funding also will be used to provide scholarships to up to 15 medical students who are pursuing careers as primary care physicians in the United States.
Primary care physicians’ average annual salary is $207,000, which is less than specialists such as rheumatologists, at $234,000, OB/GYNs, at $277,000, and emergency medicine physicians, $322,000, according to the 2016 Medscape Physician Compensation Report cited by Quinnipiac.
