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Visiting Student Scholarship to Enhance Healthcare Workforce Diversity

The Department of Psychiatry’s Visiting Student Scholarship Program offers an opportunity for underrepresented medical students to spend four weeks in an elective in psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine.

This program immerses the participating students in clinical medicine and exposes them to clinical and research faculty, medical students and residents and Department and Residency program leadership. Moreover, the students participate in Yale and New Haven community activities and other social engagements.

For the July 2024 - June 2025 year, the Department of Psychiatry awarded 3 scholarships.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Department of Psychiatry is no longer accepting visiting student scholarship applications for 2024-2025!

The visiting student electives available for this program are listed on the Yale MD Program website; please note which electives are open to Visiting Students!


Program Benefits

  • Exact scholarship amount per student may vary year to year depending on the number of scholarships awarded. A typical award will be approximately $2,000 for reimbursement of travel and housing (funds are usually provided during the elective) and reimbursement of the $200 application fee
  • A resident and faculty member that will serve as a mentor and advisor
  • An opportunity to meet with the leadership from the residency program.
  • Students will have the opportunity to speak with current residents for advice on succeeding during their elective.

Application Process

The steps to apply for the scholarship are as follows:

  1. Submit your VSAS application
  2. Review the Visiting Student Scholarship Program: An Initiative to Enhance Healthcare Workforce Diversity webpage for more information and to confirm you are eligible
  3. Complete the Visiting Student Scholarship Program Application; please be sure you upload a CV that includes USMLE Step 1 and/or 2 completion and score and a personal statement

We accept applications on rolling basis. All students will get a confirmation email that we have received your application but we do not consider applications until 1) you’ve been accepted by Yale and 2) you’ve matched with an elective. Applications will then be reviewed by a committee using holistic criteria.

For further assistance, contact Tamara Savercool.

Psychiatry Visiting Student Scholarship Team

  • Brian Fuehrlein, MD, PhD

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Psychiatric Emergency Room, VA Connecticut Healthcare System

    Dr. Fuehrlein graduated from the M.D. Ph.D. program at the University of Florida in 2008, adult psychiatry residency program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 2012 and addiction psychiatry fellowship at Yale University in 2013.  He is currently an Associate Professor and the director of the psychiatric emergency room at the VA Connecticut. Dr. Fuehrlein has a strong interest in medical student and resident education, particularly surrounding addiction psychiatry and serves on multiple local and national committees in this role.  In 2017 he was awarded the Irma Bland award for excellency in psychiatry resident education through the APA.  In 2018 he was awarded the Clerkship Faculty Teaching Award for Outstanding Medical Student Educator and Role Model.  He is also passionate about emergency psychiatry and substance use disorders and has presented and published his work surrounding opioid use disorder in the emergency room setting.  In 2019 he was inducted into the American College of Psychiatrists, an organization that recognizes excellence in clinical practice, research, academic leadership, or teaching.
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