Ramzy T. Nagle recently received a $2,500 scholarship from the Lehigh County Medical Auxiliary’s Scholarship and Educational Fund Inc.

LeCoMASE Medical Student Scholarships are offered through the Foundation of the Pennsylvania Medical Society.

“Throughout my medical career, I hope to provide compassionate and competent care as a physician,” Nagle said. “I hope to never lose the ‘sense of duty’ for my patients that I feel now.”

As Nagle continues through her medical training, she wants to seek out and learn from the doctors who exemplify the type of physician she would like to be.

“I am striving and will continue to strive to meet the needs of all of my patients, no matter how basic they may seem,” Nagle said. “Above all, I hope to know my patients first as people, and then shape my medical care appropriately.”

This award is possible, thanks to contributions from the Lehigh County Medical Auxiliary’s Scholarship and Educational Fund, Inc.

LeCoMASE established this fund within the foundation to assist Lehigh County residents with the cost of attending medical school.

A nonprofit corporation based in Allentown, LeCoMASE was formed in the late 1960s to help qualified members of the community meet the cost of earning a medical or nursing degree.

The foundation, a nonprofit affiliate of the Pennsylvania Medical Society, sustains the future of medicine in Pennsylvania by providing programs that support medical education, physician health, and excellence in practice.

It has been helping to finance medical education for more than 60 years.

Nagle, the daughter of Ken and Ramzy Burns of New Tripoli, is a medical student at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia.

She plans on specializing in general surgery.

For information about this scholarship, call the foundation’s Student Financial Services office at 717-558-7854, or visit foundationpamedsoc.org.