Nominations Invited for Minority Medical Student Scholarships and Awards

These scholarships support travel and related costs for approximately 10 minority medical students interested in psychiatry to attend either the APA annual meeting in May or the Institute on Psychiatric Services (IPS) in October. This program is a way for medical students to witness organized psychiatry at work and to learn more about the field. Not only will students attend sessions for experts and trainees alike, they will be assigned to a mentor who will help them maximize their annual meeting or IPS experience and discuss career plans and resident training programs. The deadline to apply for the annual meeting scholarship is January 26, 2008. The IPS meeting application deadline is June 30, 2008.

This program is intended to identify minority medical students who have primary interests in services related to HIV/AIDS and substance abuse and its relationship to the mental health or psychological well-being of ethnic minorities. More information is available from Carol Svoboda at (703) 907-8642 or [email protected]; or Diane Pennessi at (703) 907-8668 or [email protected]. The application deadline is March 31, 2008.

This program is intended to identify ethnic minority medical students who have an interest in psychiatric issues and expose students to a setting in which they can work closely with a psychiatrist mentor for one month. The deadline to apply is February 28, 2008.