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 Matthew L. Edwards, M.D., Senior Deputy Editor (
[email protected]).
Geriatric Mental Health Foundation’s Honors Scholarships
Organization: American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP)
Deadline: October 1, 2019
Brief Description: Provides residents with a 1-year membership with AAGP, registration and travel costs to attend the AAGP Annual Meeting, and an opportunity to participate in an academic project related to geriatric psychiatry under the supervision of an assigned mentor.
Eligibility: PGY-1, 2, or 3 in an accredited psychiatry residency program.
American Psychosomatic Society (APS) Scholar Awards
Organization: APS
Deadline: October 15, 2019
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: Applicants must be the first author on an abstract accepted for presentation at the APS Annual Meeting. Applicants must be students or trainees enrolled in medical, graduate, or undergraduate school or in a residency, internship, or postdoctoral fellowship program. Applicants must be a member of APS or in the process of applying for membership (for a membership application, please visit the membership section on the APS website).
Alonso Award for Excellence in Psychodynamic Group Theory
Organization: American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA)
Deadline: November 1, 2019
Brief Description: This award recognizes original work in the field of psychodynamic group theory. Suitable entries include doctoral dissertations, videos, published papers, and other creative research. An annual cash prize of $500 is presented.
Eligibility: Varies
Scott Schwartz (AAPDP) Award
Organization: AAPDP
Deadline: November 1, 2019
Brief Description: The Scott Schwartz Award recognizes the best original, unpublished paper on psychoanalytic or psychodynamic psychiatry, written (and first-authored) by a psychiatric resident or medical student.
Eligibility: Psychiatry residents and medical students are eligible.
Karl Jaspers Award
Organization: Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Deadline: December 15, 2019
Brief Description: Each year, the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry offers the Karl Jaspers Award for a paper authored by a student, trainee, or early-career academics or practitioners. This award is given for the best paper related to the subject of philosophy and psychiatry and carries a cash prize.
Eligibility: Eligibility includes medical students, graduate students in philosophy, psychology, and related fields, residents in psychiatry, and those who have completed such education and training no more than 3 years prior to the end of the academic year in which the award is to be conferred.
