Overseas Assistance Grants

The American Women's Hospitals Service (AWHS) provides small grants, up to $1,500, for assistance with transportation costs (airfare, train fare, etc.) connected with pursuing medical studies in an off-campus setting where the medically neglected will benefit.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Criteria

• National AMWA student or resident member
• Medical students must be completing their second,third or fourth year at an accredited U.S. medical school
• Applicants should be spending a minimum of 6 weeks and no longer than one year in a sponsored program which will serve the needs of the medically underserved
• Program must be sponsored by an accredited U.S. medical school or an outside agency (If there is no sponsor, it must be a program for which your school takes responsibility and provides academic credit).

Application Process

"I am anticipating the realization
of a dream I have had for a long
time, practicing medicine in an
underserved and culturally
rich part of the world."Applicants should apply a minimum of three months prior to departure.

Download Overseas Assistance Grant Guidelines
Download Overseas Assistance Grant Application

Previous Grant Recipients

The AWHS Oversees Assistance Grant program has provided travel grants for medical students and residents working in clinics in Belize, India, Guatamala, Mali, Peru, Zimbabwe and many other nations around the world.

Of a doctor in a rural primary healthcare center in India, one student wrote us, "She is one of those rare and inspiring mentors who become like a voice in a person's conscience for the rest of their days and I know that my time with her will affect the way that I practice medicine and view healthcare for the rest of my career."

Another student commented, "Although I had heard the statistics about HIV and AIDS, the theoretical numbers did not prepare me for the reality. I knew that one out of every four people in Zimbabwe is HIV positive...{and} that in the next few decades, the average life expectancy is expected to dip down into the twenties. But it was a totally different thing to witness it firsthand. ...over 90% of our hospital inpatients were HIV positive, and that fact was often painfully obvious. Going to Zimbabwe has certainly enlarged my world view and showed me what medicine in a developing country is really like. I am so grateful that I went."

AWHS is a charitable project of AMWA.