Micah Scholars
Rooted in the Biblical call to "do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God" (Micah 6:8), the Micah Scholars program invites students to explore the moral dimensions of healthcare through the lens of Christian discipleship.
Aims of Micah Scholars
The Micah Scholars program prepares pre-health students to serve with compassion by integrating Christian commitments, interdisciplinary learning, mentorship, and community engagement. The goals of the Micah Scholars program encompass four dimensions of moral development among pre-health students:
Micah Scholars explore healthcare as a calling that integrates moral reflection, holistic views of healing, and ethical practices rooted in love, humility, and justice.
Through clinical and community experiences, Micah Scholars cultivate compassion by accompanying those who suffer, grappling with complex health challenges, and recognizing the broader social and environmental factors that shape health and access to care.
Micah Scholars are equipped to challenge inadequate approaches to healthcare, envision innovative models for community well-being, and advocate for solutions that uphold dignity and allow for holistic care.
Micah Scholars’ community-based learning experiences deepen cross-cultural humility, nurture spiritual practices that sustain integrity and character, and foster shared formation through mentorship and supportive cohorts.
About Micah Scholars
Micah Scholars is a multi-year service-learning program for students preparing for vocations in healthcare. Rooted in Micah 6:8, the program invites participants to explore the moral dimensions of medicine through Christian discipleship, clinical immersion, coursework, and mentorship that nurture empathy, humility, and justice.
In partnership with Waco Family Medicine and other mission-driven organizations, students encounter the realities of patients and communities facing barriers to health. Shaped by Scripture and community, they grow in advocacy, accompaniment, and holistic care, cultivating a vision of healthcare that integrates academic excellence with compassion and service.
Learn More about Joining Micah Scholars
- All Honors College pre-health students are invited to apply. Students outside the Honors College may apply upon nomination by a faculty member. Faculty may nominate a student by emailing Erika_Abel@baylor.edu.
- Students will receive favorable consideration if they have done the work of discerning a calling toward service through healthcare and/or bring a unique perspective to the cohort based upon knowledge of barriers to healthcare.
- The work of discernment looks like devoting time to:
- Attending the Medicine as Mission and Medicine as Ministry retreats in
spring and fall - CHA 1087 Faith and the Healing Professions
- CHA 1087 Going deeper- Faith and the Healing Professions
- First-year seminars, BIC 1112 Examined Life, coursework in Medical
Humanities or other coursework that explores the multidisciplinary
nature of health - Listening to speakers on campus who address faith and the medical
profession, bioethics, health disparity, poverty - Attendance at Faith and Healing Professions – Career Conversations
hosted by faculty and current Micah Scholars. If interested in attending, please email Erika_Abel@baylor.edu. - Evidence of deliberate consideration of calling to serve, including seeking counsel from trusted mentors
- Consistent and thoughtful volunteerism to serve the vulnerable in society
- Reading about the intersection of faith and medicine
- Attending the Medicine as Mission and Medicine as Ministry retreats in
Due to the program’s longitudinal cohort model, only first-year pre-health students are eligible to apply.
If you are exploring a call to missional medicine and wondering whether the Micah Scholars program might be the right fit, we invite you to join the conversations hosted by Micah Scholars as a way to reflect on your vocation and navigate your next steps.
Each cohort is limited to a small number of students (maximum of 10) each year. Competitive applications will have a 3.5 GPA.
Applications to the Micah Scholars program open February 16 and close March 2 at 11:59 p.m.
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?