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Madeline Goosmann, College of Medicine student

Student Madeline Goosmann Awarded American Medical Association Scholarship

Every year, the American Medical Association grants a limited number of scholarships to medical students entering their final year of medical school.

In November, Madeline Goosmann, a fourth-year College of Medicine student at Northeast Ohio Medical University, was named as the recipient of this year’s AMA Ohio Physicians of Tomorrow Scholarship, sponsored by the Ohio Honor Fund.

Goosmann was nominated for the award by NEOMED’s College of Medicine.

“I’m grateful and honored that the administration of the school thought I was a worthy applicant for the scholarship,” says Goosmann.

To be nominated for the scholarship, students must attend medical school in the state of Ohio and be actively involved in, or willing to become involved in, organized medicine.

Serving others

Over the past four years, Goosmann has served NEOMED’s SOAR Student-Run Free Clinic in a number of different capacities.

The clinic is run by medicine and pharmacy students at Northeast Ohio Medical University, who are dedicated to providing high-quality, non-emergent, no-cost health care to the medically underserved residents of Northeast Ohio.

This year, Goosmann serves as one of the Clinic’s Chief Medical Officers. She will also serve as the SOAR Clinic Chief for her fourth-year outpatient rotation in February.

“The SOAR Clinic Chief rotation is available to any fourth-year NEOMED medicine student. During that time, you are in charge of scheduling patients, reviewing charts and doing quality improvement for the clinic,” explains Goosmann.

A career coming soon

In addition to her rotation at the SOAR Student-Run Free Clinic, Goosmann will complete an intensive care rotation at Trumbull Regional Medical Center in Warren, Ohio this spring as she prepares for a future career in otolaryngology — that is, head and neck surgery.

“Otolaryngology encompasses ear, nose, and throat,” says Goosmann. “It is a surgical subspecialty encompassing facial plastics, head and neck, otology, rhinology, laryngology, skull base and sleep medicine.”

As she looks to the future, Goosmann reflects on what prompted her to apply for the otolaryngology-head and neck surgery specialty.

“The balance of clinic and surgery was really appealing. It allows continuity of care as well as concrete, hands-on treatment through surgery.”