Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will devote $100 million to scholarships over the next 10 years, the University announced today.

The scholarships will cover full tuition for up to half of the University’s future medical students and partial tuition for many other students. Aid will also be allocated to revise the medical school’s curriculum.

The scholarship initiative aims to lessen the burden of medical school debt and will begin with the 2019-2020 incoming class.

The programs are a result of new funding from the School of Medicine’s departments and affiliated teaching hospitals, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

The funding for the revised medical school curriculums will provide support and training to faculty on the best methods to teach their medical students. The new curriculum will also provide students with an emphasis on social and economic factors influencing health and more integrated clinical experiences over their four years.

The University expects to implement the new curriculum at the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year.

This story will be updated with more information as it becomes available.