It all starts with scholarships
When you support scholarships for medical students in Phoenix, you help us form a new generation of physicians ready to serve a region direly in need of health care professionals.
Creighton’s 183,000-square-foot, $100 million health sciences campus — opened in 2021 at Park Central in midtown Phoenix — serves as a four-year medical school for hundreds of students in multiple health care professions.
As Creighton prepares students for a workforce that demands innovative care and service amid a rapidly changing world, scholarships are the key to everything.
Health care shortage
According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, for active practitioners per state, Arizona ranks —
in national averages for active practitioners per state
for active primary care physicians
for active general surgeons
Meeting a need
Creighton is an academic mainstay in Phoenix, sending medical students to Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center for rotations for more than a decade.
Your support of scholarships will continue to bring the best and brightest students to Phoenix and infuse the area with some of the most practice-ready physicians in the nation.
Scholarship support weighs significantly in students' decision to come to Creighton. Tuition alone doesn’t fully cover what it costs to educate our students. In fact, it only covers about two-thirds of it.
Most of our students receive financial aid or scholarships. Last year alone, Creighton awarded nearly 1,900 scholarships to students across all schools and colleges.
When you make a gift to scholarships, you help our students manage costs and make ends meet. But more than that, you give them a transformative sense of belonging, purpose and personal growth.
Make a difference today!
Contact a Director of Development
Katrina Spiess
Senior Director of Development, Heider College of Business and School of Medicine
Kspiess@creighton.edu
402.280.5286
Michael Zirulnik, PhD
Assistant Vice President for Phoenix Development
michaelzirulnik@creighton.edu
602.812.3123
Creighton physicians in Phoenix
Some of the best physicians in the nation, meeting an urgent need in the Southwest.
and counting
Creighton-educated physicians have stayed in Arizona for residency programs
faculty members
residents and fellows
in 17 programs
A new scholarship is bringing more physicians and physician assistants to Phoenix
The new scholarship will boost the number of physicians and physician assistants in Maricopa County and the state at large, both of which are facing a significant shortage of healthcare providers.
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Your gift changes lives
"When you support scholarships, you’re not just changing my life. You’re changing my family’s, too. I'm tearing up just thinking about how much it means to my mother that I'm getting a great education and studying to become a physician. Thank you for helping me come to Creighton. Thank you for helping me make my parents proud."
— Stephanie Miljkovic, School of Medicine
Creighton’s health sciences campus in Phoenix
The cutting-edge facility is enriching Creighton’s Jesuit education and transforming health care in the Southwest.
The physician I want to be
“I’m now doing rotations, and sometimes, as I watch the physicians at work, I’m moved to tears. In many cases, they’re caring for people having some of the worst days of their lives. But after years, even decades working with patients, Creighton physicians still bring that same level of compassion and curiosity to every encounter. The values of this education last for life.
“That’s the kind of physician I want to be. That’s the kind of physician Creighton is preparing me to become."
— Pooja Varman, School of Medicine
Better care for more children and families in Phoenix
A new endowed chair in Creighton University’s School of Medicine will expand the partnership between Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, St. Vincent de Paul and Creighton, providing better, more affordable healthcare to a greater number of children and families in the Valley.
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