Scholarships
NMA Emerging Scholars Awards
Established in 2004, this award provides $5,000 to two African American, first-year, second-year, or third-year medical students who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, leadership, financial need and potential for distinguished contributions to medicine. These awards are the highest honors presented to students by the National Medical Association NMA). The two award recipients are required to attend, and will be presented with the scholarship at the NMA Convention Scientific Assembly. The registration fee to attend the conference will be waived for each scholar.
Applications for 2021 are now closed and will not reopen until 2022.