Residents’ Resources
Here we highlight upcoming national opportunities for medical students and trainees to be recognized for their hard work, dedication, and scholarship.
To contribute to the Residents’ Resources feature, contact Anna Kim, M.D., Deputy Editor ([email protected]).
November Deadlines
Fellowship/Award
American Psychosomatic Society (APS) Scholar Awards
Organization: American Psychosomatic Society (APS)
Deadline: November 1, 2017
Brief Description: Between 10 and 24 APS Scholar Awards are presented to outstanding abstract submissions in which the first author of an accepted abstract is either a student, resident, or fellow. Each award provides monetary assistance for the APS conference fees, travel, and hotel accommodations.
Eligibility: APS member or in the process of applying for membership; first author of an abstract accepted for presentation at the APS Annual Meeting; student or trainee enrolled in medical, graduate, or undergraduate school or in residency, internship, or postdoctoral fellow.
Contact and Website:
E-mail: [email protected]; Phone: 703-556-9222; Fax: 703-556-8729
https://psychosomatic.org/awards/index.cfm
Fellowship/Award
APS Medical Student/Resident/Fellow Travel Scholarships
Organization: American Psychosomatic Society (APS)
Deadline: November 1, 2017
Brief Description: Scholarships are intended to assist with travel, hotel accommodations, and meeting registration fees to the APS Annual Meeting. Each scholarship will include $500 travel funds, a complimentary registration to the 3-day meeting, and a complimentary 1-year membership.
Eligibility: Applicant must be a medical student, resident, or fellow.
Contact and Website:
E-mail: [email protected]; Phone: 703-556-9222; Fax: 703-556-8729
https://psychosomatic.org/awards/index.cfm
Fellowship/Award
APS Minority Initiative Award
Organization: American Psychosomatic Society (APS)
Deadline: November 1, 2017
Brief Description: Each scholarship will include travel funds and a complimentary registration.
Eligibility: Applicant must be an underrepresented minority as defined by the NIH to be African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans and Alaska Natives, and Pacific Islanders.
Contact and Website:
E-mail: [email protected]; Phone: 703-556-9222; Fax:703-556-8729
https://psychosomatic.org/awards/index.cfm
Fellowship/Award
Alonso Award for Excellence in Psychodynamic Group Theory
Organization: American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA)
Deadline: November 1, 2017
Brief Description: Suitable entries include doctoral dissertations, videos, published papers, and other creative research. Submissions of entries should be e-mailed or mailed to the Group Foundation office by November 1st of each year for consideration. An annual cash prize of $500 is presented.
Eligibility: Qualification varies.
Contact and Website:
E-mail: [email protected]; Phone: 212-477-2677
http://www.agpa.org/Foundation/awards#Alonso
Fellowship/Award
Scott Schwartz (AAPDP) Award
Organization: American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry (AAPDP)
Deadline: November 1, 2017
Brief Description: Offering an award for the best original, unpublished paper on psychoanalytic or psychodynamic psychiatry, written (and first-authored).
Eligibility: Psychiatric resident or medical student.
Contact and Website:
E-mail: [email protected]
http://aapdp.org/index.php/education/scott-schwartz-aapdp-award
December Deadlines
Fellowship/Award
Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (AAPP) Karl Jaspers Award
Organization: Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (AAPP)
Deadline: December 15, 2017
Brief Description: This award is given for the best solely authored, unpublished paper related to the subject of philosophy and psychiatry. Appropriate topics for the essay include, among others, the mind-body problem, psychiatric methodology, nosology and diagnostic issues, epistemology, biopsychosocial integration, the philosophy of science, philosophical aspects of the history of psychiatry, psychodynamic, hermeneutic and phenomenological approaches, and psychiatric ethics.
Eligibility: Resident or fellow in psychiatry, graduate students and postdoctoral students in philosophy, psychology, or related fields.
Contact and Website:
E-mail: [email protected]
