| Two Pacific Island Medical
School Students
Receive Pan-Pacific Surgical Association Scholarships
Brian Carino and Robert Pangilinan,
both third-year medical school students at the
University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine each received a $1,000 scholarship
from the Pan-Pacific Surgical Association.
The scholarships are from the Pan-Pacific Surgical
Association's Living Endowment Fund, which is funded by its surgeon members and
other generous individuals. The Pan-Pacific Surgical Association awards scholarships
to deserving Pacific Island medical students who plan to return home to practice
medicine.
 Brian
Carino, left
in photo, plans to return to the Republic
of Palau to practice medicine, where physicians are scarce. He was born and raised
on Guam, but also spent time on other islands in Micronesia, including Saipan,
Chuuk, and Palau. From 1993 to 1995, Carino also spent his summers as a volunteer
intern at the Belau Medical Clinic and the McDonald Memorial Hospital in the Republic
of Palau, experiences which inspired him to become a physician.
Robert Pangilinan, right, was also born
and raised on Guam and lived there all of his life. He had a summer clerkship
at Guam Memorial Hospital in 1989, and has been involved in epidemiological research
of tuberculosis for Guam's Department of Public Health. He plans to become a gastroenterologist
because currently there is no one on Guam serving in that capacity and it is an
area of medicine that interests him.
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Application Form (PDF Format, 8 KB)
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