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The recipient must demonstrate compassion and altruism in outreach or patient care. Preference will be given to a student who shows interest in practicing Geriatrics.

The Scholarship, created by Garnett Smith, was established as a Mother’s Day memorial to three significant women in his life, including his late wife, Patsy, who was passionate about improving rural and underserved medicine. Preference will be given to students from Southwest Virginia and students who are inspired and committed to medical outreach and underserved communities.

Recipients shall be, at the time of receipt of the scholarship funds, a second, third or fourth-year Virginia-VCOM medical student in good academic standing. The scholarship is restricted to a student whose home address is from the counties of Buchanan, Dickenson, Grayson, Tazewell, Washington and Wise, Virginia, Cities of Norton and Bristol, Virginia and the city of Bristol, Tennessee, and Sullivan County, Tennessee.