Essay Topic:
Address this topic in a 500-word essay
Tell us how financial hardships hit you during residency — and how programs should step up to support their trainees. Winner will receive $2,000 scholarship.
You are eligible to apply for a Scholarship if you meet the following criteria:
August 20, 2025 Winner
Shelby Jain, MD, MBA, is a resident physician beginning her anesthesiology residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital after completing a preliminary year in internal medicine at Jersey Shore Medical Center. She is originally from Freehold, New Jersey, and studied biology and business administration at Drexel University before pursuing her dual MD/MBA at Georgetown University. Her clinical interests lie at the intersection of perioperative medicine, healthcare equity, and systems-level innovation. She has led medical-legal partnership initiatives focused on health justice and contributed to global oncology strategy consulting. Shelby hopes to leverage her background to bridge clinical care and management, creating patient-centered, equitable, and sustainable approaches that improve healthcare delivery and outcomes.
April 22, 2025 Winner
My name is Alvarho Guzman, and I’m so grateful to have received the Doc2Doc Match Day Scholarship. I’m an incoming PGY-1 at the San Francisco Orthopaedic Residency Program at UCSF Health St. Mary’s, and I’m really excited to complete my training back home in the community that raised me. I’m originally from Oakland, California, and have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for most of my life. I majored in economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and briefly worked in finance before switching careers and ultimately matriculating into Albany Medical College. Thank you again to Doc2Doc for this invaluable opportunity to further my financial literacy as I embark on my residency training in orthopaedic surgery.
January 1, 2025 Winner
October 31, 2024 Winner
Cyrus Buckman is an MD/MBA candidate at Stanford University. He is focused on improving financial literacy among medical students and physicians. Recognizing a gap in financial education within the medical community, he is developing a program aimed at bridging the divide between medical training and essential financial knowledge. His objective is to equip future healthcare professionals with the skills necessary to manage their finances effectively, thereby fostering better decision-making in both personal and professional contexts.