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Medicine to welcome Fullerton Scholar MUSC’s College of Medicine will include Fullerton Medical Scholarship recipient Jodi Erin Anderson of Irmo, S.C., among its incoming freshmen this fall semester.   Anderson, who completed the S.C. Honors Program at the University of South Carolina in May, will become the third Fullerton Medical Scholarship recipient the college will count among its current student body. Emmeleen Phan, a rising fourth year student from Simpsonville, S.C., and Travis Johnson, a rising sophomore student from Spartanburg, S.C., also won the scholarship prior to beginning their first year as medical students.   The Fullerton Medical Scholarship Program was established in 1985 by the directors of The Fullerton Foundation Inc. They wished to identify and encourage medical students who showed potential for growing into the kind of physicians who would excel not only as clinicians, but also as stewards of the community’s overall well being.   Competition for the award is extremely intense, due both to the generous amount of the scholarship ($20,000 for each year of medical school) and to the limited number of  three scholarships available annually.   To maximize its chances of winning the scholarship for one of its students, each medical school in North and South Carolina implements a rigorous nomination process to identify the best student-candidate for consideration by the foundation.  At MUSC, the job of identifying that begins in mid-December with a review of newly accepted applicants to the College of Medicine.  After identifying those who meet the residency and academic requirements, the students’ applications, personal statements, faculty recommendations and interview summaries are examined. A final selection is then forwarded as a recommendation to the Office of the Dean of the College of Medicine for approval.   Once the nominee has been selected, he or she is invited to meet with the college’s current Fullerton Scholars, who prepare the student for the interview process with the Fullerton Scholarship Independent Selection Committee in March.   It is the Foundation’s objective that the Fullerton Foundation Scholarship recipients will eventually return to practice primary care in either North or South Carolina.    The Fullerton Scholarship is available to eligible entering freshman at: Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine  University of South Carolina School of Medicine  Duke University Medical Center School of Medicine East Carolina University School of Medicine University of North Carolina School of Medicine Wake Forest University School of Medicine Criteria for Fullerton Scholarship Must be an entering freshmen  Must have been a resident of N.C. or S.C. for the past five preceding years  Minimum grade point average of 3.5  Minimum MCAT score of 24 (8 in each subsection and an O on the writing sample).   Must have the potential for service in the health care field, as demonstrated by leadership in high school, undergraduate school and the community, knowledge of society and the problems and opportunities of the world today, and an awareness of their own capabilities and limitations.