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$5.1 M Institutional and external scholarship funding that 266 students received in 2015-2016. 62 INTERPROFESSIONAL. INTERNATIONAL. UNDERSERVED. institutional scholarship programs funded 275 scholarship awards to 199 students, totaling $2.2 million. “Everyone was really creative – using gloves as tourniquets because they didn’t have anything to use as a tourniquet otherwise… One of the things we took away from it is that further on in our careers, when we feel overworked and burnt out, we’ll look back on this experience and have that little extra motivation to keep caring for our patients.” SARA BOLDT | Class of 2019, who traveled to Botswana in June 2016 as part of an interprofessional health care team. She described the experience as “very eye-opening” as she watched Botswana health care professionals cope with chronic overcrowding, understaffing and resource scarcity. NATIONAL AWARD-WINNING EDUCATORS AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION 2015 MENTOR OF THE YEAR Katy Kropf, D.O. (’02), Heritage College assistant professor of family medicine AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC FAMILY PHYSICIANS’ 2016 EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR Bill Burke, D.O. (’88), dean of Heritage College, Dublin NUMBER OF STUDENTS ADMITTED PER CLASS 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 1976 1986 1996 2006 2016 14