DOH Scholarship

The DOH Medicine Scholarship Program includes all four years of medical education, including summer immersion programs prior to the second and third years of medicine, and one year of post-graduate internship.

It also encompasses covers all four years of a Bachelor of Science in Midwifery. In return, scholars will be expected to work for two years in public health for every year of schooling shouldered by the DOH.

Priority will be given to prospective students from low-income families, from geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas or from the country’s twenty poorest municipalities and cities, and from indigenous communities or the national minorities; dependent of government employees and active police and military personnel; victims of calamities; and Barangay Health Workers and traditional birth attendants.

Benefits:
Tuition, laboratory, miscellaneous, and other school fees, to be paid directly to the partner schools.

Allowance paid directly to scholars, composed of:

Living subsidy- PhP 4,500 per month
Lodging allowance- PhP 3,000 per month
Transportation allowance- PhP 800 per month
Book allowance- PhP 12,100 per semester
Uniform allowance- PhP 3,025 per semester
Miscellaneous allowance- PhP 5,500 per semester
Annual Medical Insurance- PhP2,400 per year, to be paid directly to the Philippine Health Insurance Corp