As part of the Indiana Primary Care Advancement in Clinical Training (INPACT) grant, fourth-year IU School of Medicine students interested in primary care fields can apply for scholarship assistance (up to $15,000) toward their Spring 2025 attendance cost.
The application form must be completed no later than December 9 to determine your eligibility for this scholarship funding before the spring semester's fund distribution.
The IU School of Medicine Financial Services team will work to see how this scholarship can apply to your cost of attendance.
INPACT is part of a federal grant program focused on increasing the number of graduates who pursue training in primary care fields, with particular attention to providing care for the underserved. The grant is made possible by the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), a government agency tasked with improving the national healthcare workforce to meet the country's needs.
The INPACT grant allows the School to offer a scholarship to graduating students pursuing a primary care residency program (as defined by HRSA in the areas of pediatrics, family medicine, internal medicine, and medicine/pediatrics). To be eligible for this scholarship, IU School of Medicine students must be pursuing training in one of those four primary care disciplines—as indicated by their career preference in MSAS.
Scholarship award amounts depend on each student's total financial aid status and will be offered to cover the cost of attendance.
The scholarships aims to offset some costs faced by our graduating students as they finish up their training program and prepare to transition into a primary care field residency program.
Although we wish we had the support to create similar scholarships for IU School of Medicine graduates going into all disciplines, HRSA funding currently limits the awards to those pursuing the four areas noted above—still a large number of IU School of Medicine graduates, based on past trends. In 2023, 94 scholarships were awarded for $1.4 million.
