September 2000 • Volume 6 • Number 9
Academy and AAFP Foundation offer new opportunities for residents
Speakers at the Aug. 2-6 National Conference of Family Practice Residents and Medical Students in Kansas City, Mo., announced several new opportunities for family practice residents:
Resident Community Outreach Award. Modeled after the Academy's student award, this new program recognizes community service projects of family practice residents who are AAFP members. Winners will receive a $600 travel grant to attend the National Conference. Up to two awards will be presented annually. Application details will soon be available at http://www.aafp.org/residents; the deadline to apply is May 5, 2001.
Resident position on the AAFP Foundation Board of Trustees. Apply by Sept. 27 to be a full-voting member of the foundation's board. The foundation board meets twice a year -- in May and November -- and you'll also represent the foundation at the National Conference. For an application and more details, call (800) 274-2237, Ext. 4450.
Research Skills Workshop for Family Practice Residents. This new National Conference program will kick off at the 2001 meeting. Supported by a grant from Pfizer Inc., the one-day workshop will introduce medical students and residents to the field of medical research. Residents who attend the session will then be eligible for 10 AAFP Foundation grants of up to $2,000 to perform research projects, and some of those residents will receive travel grants to present scientific papers at the 2002 conference. Interested? Just register at next year's meeting.
Physicians With Heart Scholarship. Travel to Vietnam Feb. 16-25, 2001, as part of the Physicians With Heart airlift, a joint venture of the Academy, AAFP Foundation and the humanitarian organization Heart to Heart International. The foundation scholarship, supported in part by a grant from McNeil Consumer Healthcare, will cover travel expenses for a resident to join the delegation, which will deliver pharmaceutical products and medical supplies, present CME programs and participate in a nonmedical humanitarian project. Call (800) 274-2237, Ext. 4450, for an application and more information; the application deadline is Sept. 27.
Resident Reporter Program. This new AAFP Foundation program supported by Wyeth-Ayerst will select 40 family practice residents to attend the Academy's Scientific Assembly. The residents will have an opportunity to write a paper about a session they attend at the meeting for possible inclusion in a bound journal to be distributed to all residency programs. For more information, call (800) 274-2237, Ext. 4410.
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