Jayme Warner, a third-year medical student at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, was born in Los Angeles but moved to Utah as a child. Following in her father’s footsteps, she attended Utah State University for undergraduate studies. Now, as the first in her family to pursue a career in medicine, Jayme is forging her path—a journey made possible through determination, scholarships, and service.  

To help finance her goal of attending medical school, Jayme joined the Utah National Guard as an undergraduate and is now in her ninth year of service. After earning her medical degree and becoming board-certified, she plans to train as a flight physician, combining her medical expertise with her commitment to service. She credits scholarships from the University of Utah, particularly The Richard H. and JoAnn O. Keller Scholarship, as pivotal support that has helped her pursue her dream.  

Jayme is passionate about patient education and empowerment. She especially appreciates the school’s Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC)—a clinical learning model that is designed to resemble the real-world practice of medicine—for providing some of her most valuable experiences. She describes the LIC as “learning to drive stick shift”—challenging at first but immensely rewarding once mastered. Through her rotations in pediatrics, internal medicine, family medicine, OB-GYN, surgery, oncology, and psychiatry, Jayme is building a strong foundation of knowledge and experience she’ll use throughout her career caring for diverse patients and communities.  

Despite the rigorous demands of medical school, Jayme cherishes the camaraderie she’s found among her classmates. One of her favorite parts of the experience is a Slack channel where students share their “oopsies” and “glimmers”—moments of joy, humor, and small victories that keep them connected and motivated on the path to becoming physicians.