ST. LOUIS and HINTON, West Virginia, Dec. 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — PracticeLink, the nation’s most trusted physician recruitment resource and home of the leading online physician job board, announced today the recipients of its Fall 2025 First Practice Fund scholarship. The biannual program, which launched with its inaugural Spring 2025 cycle, supports medical students, residents and advanced practice providers as they prepare to enter their first practice.
For many healthcare trainees, the pursuit of medicine is driven by perseverance and purpose, but often accompanied by financial, systemic and personal challenges. The First Practice Fund was created to help ease those burdens while recognizing individuals committed to patient-centered care and health equity.
Following the overwhelming response to the Spring 2025 launch, the Fall 2025 cycle drew hundreds of applicants from across the country who shared their stories and professional aspirations. Supported by the generous sponsorship of Premier Health, PracticeLink awarded $2,500 scholarships to nine recipients representing a range of specialties and care settings.
Fall 2025 First Practice Fund Recipients:
- Jai Kafle – Medical Student
- Christine Lin – Specialty
- Shane Thomas – Specialty
- Karen Bishop – Advanced Practice Provider
- Jahid Ross – Advanced Practice Provider
- Latisha Carswell – Outpatient
- Mohamed Hashem – Outpatient
- Olga Pudovka Gross – Rural Medicine
- Patrick Loehr – Hospital-Based Medicine
Each recipient demonstrated a strong commitment to serving underserved communities and improving access to care through community health centers, rural clinics, hospital-based environments and specialty practices. PracticeLink will feature individual profiles of the Fall 2025 recipients in its online Resource Center in the coming weeks.
PracticeLink continues to offer its renowned PracticeLink Job Board, which is free for physicians to search and respond to job opportunities from 8,000 hospitals, medical groups and private practices listing more than 40,000 physician job opportunities. For recruiters, PracticeLink offers PracticeLink Recruitment Management System, which provides the ultimate suite of physician recruitment tools for in-house recruiters. PracticeLink also offers PracticeLink Magazine, the free, award-winning career advancement publication for physicians that reaches 95,000 residents through quarterly themed issues. Click here to request your free subscription.
About PracticeLink
Established in 1994, PracticeLink connects job-seeking physicians and advanced practitioners in all specialties with opportunities at more than 8,000 health systems, hospitals, medical groups and private practices. PracticeLink helps heal and save lives by improving the physician recruitment process through people, technology and education—and by getting physicians to the communities where they’re needed most.
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