About
The Shi Wen-Ling Scholarship is run by the Andrew T. Huang Medical Education Promotion Fund. It supports recent Taiwan medical school graduates pursuing graduate study at Stanford or Duke, with the goal of preparing a generation of Taiwanese physician leaders ready to take on the most complex challenges facing Taiwan's healthcare system.
The scholarship was established through a gift from Mr. Wu (吳志偉) and his family in memory of Mrs. Shi Wen-Ling (石文姈). The first cohort under the Shi Wen-Ling name began in 2024.
How it started
The Shi Scholarship draws on lessons learned from an earlier program called The New School, a Taiwanese leadership training program for mid-career healthcare professionals that has been running from 2018 to 2023. The New School operated in partnership with National ChengChi University's College of Commerce and awarded an EMBA after two years of coursework.
In 2022, the Andrew T. Huang Fund began laying the groundwork for an analogous program aimed at early-career physicians, applying what The New School had learned about leadership development to a younger cohort just out of medical school. That work became the Shi Wen-Ling Scholarship.
Mission
To develop the most exceptional post-graduate medical trainees in Taiwan and realize their enormous potential in solving the most complex healthcare challenges of our time.
Motivation
Taiwan's health system faces real challenges. Suppressed reimbursement rates, high patient volumes, and gaps in care coordination are testing the system in ways that will require a new generation of physician leaders to address.
The scholarship focuses on the leadership skills that aren't taught in medical school: systems thinking, quality improvement, communication, and the ability to work across disciplines on hard problems. We send our scholars to Stanford and Duke to learn those skills at depth, and we work to ensure they bring what they learn back to Taiwan.
