Thalamus.Org offers scholarships, grants and programs to strengthen the U.S. physician workforce
We are connectors–developing the physician educational pathway and building community programs to unite medical trainees, physicians, health systems and patients. Our goal is to expand and support the broader U.S. physician workforce by removing financial barriers through medical education and the transition to practice. We provide scholarships to medical students applying to residency, ensuring the process is affordable and accessible.
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Thalamus.Org provides funding to increase access to residency training, away and audition rotations, attendance at medical conferences, and professional leadership experiences.
Medical students–we are here to support you! Are you limiting your residency selection based on application fees and travel costs? Are you pursuing a primary care residency in a rural community? Are you planning to interview in an underserved area? If you answered “yes” to any of the questions above you should apply today!
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Join us in our mission to strengthen the U.S. physician workforce by empowering future doctors to support our healthcare system–providing the best care for patients as we work to improve health in all communities nationwide.
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Scholarships: We are funders–providing scholarships to medical students applying to residency, ensuring the process is affordable and accessible.
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Early pipeline building: We are connectors– establishing community programs, like providing transportation (on the “Thala-Bus”) for educational programs connecting students and physicians, for early introduction to healthcare and to develop the physician educational pathway and pipeline.
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Growing the physician workforce: We are builders–strengthening access to doctors throughout the U.S., including rural and underserved communities focused on increasing access to care.
Applying to Residency: By-the-Numbers
The residency application process is expensive, time-consuming and anxiety-provoking. Many of the more sought-after specialties are extremely competitive. Medical students can incur thousands of dollars in additional debt and student loans during their last year in medical school as they apply for and interview residency programs throughout the country. A lot is at stake as these students have worked their entire lives to become physicians. Given these costs, having available funds to pay to apply to residency is key. Thalamus.Org exists to provide equality of opportunity to all applicants regardless of the zip code where they grew up.
$300K+
73% of medical students graduate with educational debt, averaging $200K+. Students attending private schools have an average of $20K in additional debt.
$2,214
Medical students pay a per application fee to apply to residency via the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) or the San Francisco (SF) Match. A process that costs $125M+ annually and growing.
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Applications per medical student have increased 5 - 10x over the last decade. Over 20 percent of medical students are applying to more than one specialty. The numbers are even higher for international medical graduates (IMGs)
39,205
The largest number of applicants matching to residency positions on record through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). 10,000+ applicants went unmatched.
$1B+
Medical students may take up to $25,000 in additional loans just to go through this process. In aggregate, applying to residency accounts for ~3% of all medical education debt.
38K - 124K
Burnout, COVID-19, an aging baby boomer population and other factors, will lead to a shortage in both primary care and specialty physicians. Underrepresented and underserved patient populations will be most affected, requiring interventions to ensure a representative physician workforce.
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