4th-year Medical Students Scholarship

The UVA Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging is proud to offer $1,500.00 travel scholarship awards to help offset the costs of travel and housing for two highly qualified medical students per year who wish to do a visiting radiology elective at our institution.  Visiting rotations are during the months of June through November. Scholarship applications are open to all 4^th year visiting students.

The purpose of these scholarships is to offset the cost of a Visiting Student Learning Opportunity (VSLO) elective. Our VSLO electives provide medical students the opportunity to experience what it is like to live and work in Charlottesville, while experiencing firsthand our department’s welcoming environment.  This elective experience will hopefully encourage students to consider a career in radiology, enhance the students’ knowledge of academic medicine and provide them with specific mentoring and networking opportunities.

Students may do the 4-week General Diagnostic or 4-week Interventional Radiology elective.  At the conclusion of the elective, they will be expected to function at the level of an advanced medical student.  Students will be expected to actively participate in morning teaching conferences and attend daytime didactic lectures, conferences and Grand Rounds with our residents and other medical students.  Becoming involved with a scholarly or teaching project will be highly encouraged.

Competitive applicants should have demonstrated academic excellence, leadership skills and a variety of extracurricular experience. Students should be strongly considering a career in Diagnostic or Interventional Radiology. The program is open to all 4th-year visiting medical students or UVA-INOVA students. Preference is given to first generation medical school students and/or economically disadvantaged students who have overcome substantial educational or economic obstacles in pursuit of their medical education.

The scholarships are sponsored by an endowment granted by the late Eduard de Lange, MD to the Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging.

In addition to your complete application and acceptance in a rotation through VSLO, please review and complete the scholarship application.

Please submit your scholarship application and your narrative to Angel DeBeer at ner7jm@uvahealth.org.