Weill Cornell Medicine Joins Other Schools in Cutting Student Debt

Weill Cornell Medicine is the latest medical school to take aim at eliminating educational debt for its students

New York City’s Weill Cornell Medicine said Monday that it would expand its scholarship offerings to eliminate education debt for students demonstrating financial need, an expansion that follows other similar debt-relief efforts at medical schools in the city.

The $160 million scholarship program comes as student debt is on the minds of all college deans, said Augustine M.K. Choi, the dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and provost for medical affairs at Cornell University. Debt creates financial stress that leads to burnout, or...

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