Select one of the items below to discover more about CMDA Scholarships and Grant Opportunities
Please see the chart at the bottom of this page to determine which scholarships you qualify for. You can find further descriptions and links to various scholarships below.
Note that if you are applying for Westra, Owen, Johnson, Minority, Hood, or Domestic, you only need to fill out ONE application in order to be considered for ALL of these awards. All other scholarships you must contact directly yourself. Also, some scholarships require applications to be submitted at least 3 months prior to your departure date. It’s to your advantage to apply well in advance of your trip, so you can budget according to whether or not you receive an award. A letter of recommendation is required for these scholarships.
Additionally, CMDA Scholarship applicants who are planning a 1 month or longer healthcare missions elective that provides credit through their school or training program may also be eligible to receive the MAP International Global Health Mission Scholar Award. This may provide up to $3,000 in addition to the CMDA administrated scholarships described on this page. MAP has additional requirements and you must fill our their application at: https://www.map.org/map-health-fellowship-program/ If you are approved for a CMDA scholarship, then on your application you will mark referring organization as CMDA.
Scholarship | Westra Short Term Missions
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.
Scholarship | James P. Owen Mission
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.
Scholarship | Johnson Short-Term Mission
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.
Scholarship | Tami Fisk Mission Travel Grant
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.
Scholarship | Naomi Kim Medical Missions
The Naomi Kim Scholarship assists selected healthcare students in participating in their first Global Health Outreach trip, enabling them to become familiar with the cultural, social, spiritual, medical and dental problems in developing countries while allowing them to serve the underserved.
Scholarship | FCPA Mission Matching Grant
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.
Scholarship | WPDC Mission Trips
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.
Dietz Scholarship
Margaret J. Dietz Scholarship – Provides financial assistance to support the Christian and professional leadership development of physicians and dentists in low and low-middle income countries and regions of the world.
Schindler Scholarship
Dr. Robert and Marian Schindler Scholarship - Provides $1200 to help fund senior medical students, residents and/or fellows to teach on a short term mission trip with CMDA’s Medical Education International mission arm.
Scholarship | Minority Short Term Mission Scholarship
This scholarship seeks to encourage and enable non-white students and trainees to participate in mission rotations outside the United States.
Scholarship | Domestic Short Term Mission Scholarship
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.
Scholarship | Dale Willis Memorial GHO Scholarship
To assist selected dentists 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.
Scholarship | Hood Medical Mission Scholarship
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.
Scholarship | Good Samaritan Scholarship
To introduce diverse health care students to Christian medical missions allowing them to not only become familiar with the cultural, social, spiritual, medical and dental problems in developing countries, but also to obtain the skills to participate, in training and mentoring the next generation of missionaries in the name of Jesus.
Other Scholarships and Grant Opportunities
Scholarship | Baptist Medical Dental Fellowship
Providing assistance to students who are going on mission both domestically and internationally to serve the healthcare needs of unserved or underserved people of the world with the intent to share the love of Christ.
Scholarship | Project MedSend Grant
MedSend awards grants to repay student loans owed by healthcare professionals while they serve as healthcare missionaries in medically underserved areas of the world. Three times each year, the MedSend board reviews completed applications for healthcare professionals headed for career missionary service.
Scholarship | Project Hope Northwest Trip Grant
This fund is for the support of individuals who are exploring a commitment to the medical mission field or those already medical missionaries. Typical grantees include premedical or predental students who have made a commitment to the healing professions, medical or dental students who have a committed Christian faith or physicians in residency who are exploring the possibility of a short term or long term commitment to mission work.
Scholarship | Southwestern Medical Clinic Foundation Medical Students & Resident Program
Do you have a passion for medicine and a calling to help those in need? Southwestern Medical Clinic Foundation offers scholarships to qualified medical students and residents who have a strong interest in gaining valuable clinical experience while serving on an international or domestic Christian medical mission trip.
Scholarship | MAP International Health Fellowship
CMDA Scholarship applicants who are planning a healthcare missions elective that provides credit through their school or training program and is at least four weeks in duration will also be eligible to receive the CMDA-MAP International Global Health Mission Scholar Award. This will provide up to $3,000 in addition to the CMDA Scholarship. CMDA scholarship applicants who also qualify for consideration for the MAP award will be notified after their application is reviewed.
Eligibility for Scholarships
Please download your W-9 form here:
Complete the form, saving it to your computer. Then email Amber Clark at [email protected] with a copy to Misty Carter at [email protected] and attach your completed W-9.
