Pre-licensure healthcare professionals who have demonstrated excellent progress on initial stages of healthcare licensing examination and who can demonstrate a financial need in order to continue the process of preparing for and meeting US healthcare licensing requirements can apply for financial assistance for:

• The cost of approved examination preparation courses and resources;
• The cost of healthcare licensing examination / testing fees;
• The cost of applying to graduate-level training programs through an organized common application system or service (such as, but not limited to, ERAS (the system used by physicians to seek placement in accredited medical residency and fellowship programs)); and/or,
• Any combination of the above.

Such financial assistance, if awarded, will be in the form of a grant/scholarship.
DRN Foundation financial awards are not loans.

Eligibility is open to any student or pre-US-licensure graduate who is actively pursuing a professional career in healthcare in the United States and…

• Who is required to pass standardized examinations in order to be licensed and/or to pass from one pre-licensure stage to another; and/or,
• Who is required to seek placement in post-graduation-level training programs through an organized common application system or service (such as, but not limited to, that used by physicians to seek placement in accredited medical residency and fellowship programs).

 
Note: Family members of any Director, Officer, or Advisor of the DRN Foundation, Inc, are not eligible for scholarships, grants, or any other financial assistance awards from the organization.

International healthcare professionals and/or students pursuing training and/or careers in US healthcare are eligible and are actively encouraged to apply.

Awardees will be required to provide proof that the scholarship was used exclusively for the awarded purpose and will be required to provide proof that they used the course or took the exam or used the service for which the scholarship paid.  Scholarships which are not used or utilized for the purpose(s) for which the scholarship was made must be repaid.

Awardees will be required to provide documentation of the results obtained; but, there is no requirement that a certain result/outcome must be attained.
 

Awardees will be provided with full details and provisions upon selection; and, acceptance of the same is required for award issuance.  Awardees who do not accept such terms in a timely manner will forfeit their award.

Applications are evaluated and awardees are determined on a quarterly basis.

Applicants should submit complete applications at-least six (6) months prior to the anticipated need or expense disbursement date.

Minimum Grant/Scholarship Size:   $ 100.00

Maximum Grant/Scholarship Size:   $ 5,000.00

 
The amount requested in an application amount should not exceed the actual cost of the need for which financial assistance is being sought.

 
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