Student notes

Diana Bojorquez, a third-year medical student, received the Herbert W. Nickens, M.D., Minority Medical Student Scholarship for 2000, which was announced in the fall by the Association of American Medical Colleges. The scholarships honor the work of Nickens in promoting justice in medical education and health care and are given to outstanding minority medical students who have demonstrated leadership in eliminating inequities in those areas.

Corey Martin, a third-year medical student, was one of six scholars selected from applicants representing 55 U.S. medical schools to receive a 2000 scholarship from the Piscano Leadership Foundation Inc., the philanthropic foundation of the American Board of Family Practice Inc. The scholarships, valued at up to $50,000 each, provide educational programs, leadership training, and funding for outstanding third- and fourth-year medical students who have been identified as future leaders in the field of family practice. Martin is helping to establish a Tar Wars Program at Yale to discourage children from smoking, implementing a long-term family physician shadowing program for interested medical students, and was a delegate to the Connecticut Academy of Family Physicians.

—Claire Bessinger

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