Scholarship support for veterans enrolling in MD, JD, and MBA programs

TY - JOUR

T1 - Scholarship support for veterans enrolling in MD, JD, and MBA programs

AU - Graves, Stephen

AU - Seagle, Brandon Luke L.

AU - Kocherginsky, Masha

AU - Yang, Junhua

AU - Grace, Anne

AU - Shahabi, Shohreh

N1 - Funding Information: Military veterans may bring a distinct perspective to medicine, law, business, or other professions or occupations. The Post-9/11 GI Bill is a scholarship program that can be used for most accredited degree programs (including undergraduate and graduate programs, such as medical, law, or business school) and is available to all honorably discharged veterans who served on active duty. This program covers all tuition and fees for a veteran if attending an in-state public school. For private or out-of-state public schools, the GI Bill covers a portion of tuition and fees not to exceed the maximum allowed by law per academic year. To supplement the GI Bill’s support, an academic graduate program may elect to participate in the Yellow Ribbon scholarship program at the amount of its choosing to be matched by the Veterans Administration (VA). Total VA scholarship support is funds received from the GI Bill, the graduate program’s offered Yellow Ribbon award, and the matching VA Yellow Ribbon award. We examined VA scholarship support by MD programs, determined by participation in the Yellow Ribbon program, and compared it with juris doctorate (JD) and master of business administration (MBA) programs at the same institutions. Funding Information: Funding/Support: The research reported in this publication was supported by grant 4P30CA060553-22 from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health and by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Role of the Funder/Sponsor: The study supporters had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; or decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Additional Contributions: We thank the Association of American Medical Colleges, ABA, AACSB, and VA National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics for assistance with the primary data. We also thank the Northwestern University Chicago Campus Financial Aid Office for insights on administration of the Yellow Ribbon scholarship and Post-9/11 GI Bill within professional programs. We also thank Marianne Green, MD, Magdy Milad, MD, and Kyle Yoo, BS, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, for general advice, mentorship, and contributions to the research. All individuals named received no compensation for their contributions.

PY - 2018/9/18

Y1 - 2018/9/18

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U2 - 10.1001/jama.2018.10260

DO - 10.1001/jama.2018.10260

M3 - Letter

C2 - 30422292

AN - SCOPUS:85053506922

VL - 320

SP - 1197

EP - 1198

JO - JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

JF - JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

SN - 0098-7484

IS - 11

ER -