Scholarships

To provide financial assistance for future medical, dental and other students to participate on their first Global Health Outreach short-term medical missions experience; enabling them to become familiar with the cultural, social, spiritual, medical and dental needs in developing countries while allowing them to serve the underserved and to train and mentor the next generation of missionaries in the name of Jesus.

The Tony Hood, MD and Claudia Hood Medical Mission Scholarship seeks to inspire fourth year medical students to experience healthcare missions throughout the world. By doing so, they are hopeful recipients will be inspired to continue a lifetime of involvement in long- or short-term medical missions.

This scholarship seeks to encourage and enable students and residents to participate in mission rotations here in the United States, working with marginalized, underserved, and vulnerable populations in a Christian healthcare setting.

This scholarship seeks to encourage and enable non-white students and trainees to participate in mission rotations outside the United States.

Assisting selected healthcare students in participating in their first Global Health Outreach short-term medical missions experience, enabling them to become familiar with the cultural, social, spiritual, medical and dental problems in developing countries while allowing them to serve the underserved.

In partnership with Global Health Outreach, WPDC women are invited to go on mission trips which offer participants an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of refugees, orphans and human trafficking victims around the world.

The Fellowship of Christian Physician Assistants seeks to encourage the sending forth of laborers Matthew 9:37-38 into the fields which are white with harvest. This fund was established to offer financial and prayer support to FCPA members who are called by the Lord to medical mission work around His world.

Grants for travel expenses for healthcare students (including nursing and allied health), trainees, and professionals serving in healthcare missions who are exploring and/or beginning medical service in East Asia with preference to those working with MSI Professional Services or OMF International.

Grants for travel expenses of medically-trained individuals exploring and/or beginning medical service in East Asia with preference to those working with MSI Professional Services or OMF International.

Encouraging MD/DO residents and fellows to serve the underserved cross-culturally and in doing so to seek the Lord’s will for their lifetime involvement in medical missions.

James P. Owen had a keen interest in missionary medicine. He died in 1981 while a senior medical student at Southwestern Medical School. The James P. Owen Memorial Endowment Fund was established by his wife in loving memory of her husband. Medical students at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas are eligible to apply.

The James S. Westra Memorial Fund was established in 1981. It provides scholarships for pre-health undergraduate students, healthcare students (including nursing and allied health), trainees, and young professionals to serve in healthcare missions.