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 Matthew L. Edwards, M.D., Deputy Editor ([email protected]).
July Deadlines
Fellowship/Award
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Educational Outreach Program for General Psychiatry Residents
Organization: AACAP
Deadline: July 13, 2018
Brief Description: The former Travel Grant Program provides the opportunity for general psychiatry residents to receive a formal overview of the field of child and adolescent psychiatry, establish child and adolescent psychiatrists as mentors, and experience the AACAP Annual Meeting in Seattle, October 22–October 27, 2018.
Eligibility: General psychiatry residents who are AACAP members or have pending AACAP membership.
Contact and Website:
E-mail: [email protected]
Fellowship/Award
AACAP Educational Outreach Program for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Residents (former Travel Grant Program)
Organization: AACAP
Deadline: July 13, 2018
Brief Description: The former Travel Grant Program provides the opportunity for CAP residents to receive a formal overview of the field of child and adolescent psychiatry, establish child and adolescent psychiatrists as mentors, and experience the AACAP Annual Meeting in Seattle, October 22–October 27, 2018.
Eligibility: Child and adolescent psychiatry fellows who are AACAP members or have pending AACAP membership.
Contact and Website:
E-mail: [email protected]
Fellowship/Award
American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP) Medical Student Resident Fellow Travel Award
Organization: AAAP
Deadline: July 23, 2018
Brief Description: AAAP has four travel awards available for medical students, residents, fellows, and early-career psychiatrists. All awards help defray the costs of travel, lodging, and meeting registration fees.
Eligibility: Medical students and residents (includes general psychiatry residents and fellows in specialty training other than addiction psychiatry); addiction psychiatry fellows must be enrolled in an ACGME-accredited addiction psychiatry subspecialty program.
Contact and Website:
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.aaap.org/annual-meeting/travel-awards
August Deadline
Fellowship/Award
The Laughlin Fellowship Program
Organization: The American College of Psychiatrists (ACP)
Deadline: August 15, 2018
Brief Description: Each year, The College selects 12 third-, fourth-, and fifth-year residents from the United States and Canada and pays for them to attend the ACP Annual Meeting. The Laughlin Fellows are chosen from an elite pool of applicants deemed likely to make a significant contribution to the field of psychiatry.
Eligibility: The nominee must be a current PGY-3, PGY-4, or PGY-5 resident in general psychiatry or fellow in child, addiction, geriatric, or psychosomatic psychiatry. Psychiatry trainees in other fellowship programs may also apply.
Contact and Website:
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: http:// www.acpsych.org/resident-fellowships/the-laughlin-fellowship-program
