Minority Medical Students Invited To Apply for IPS Scholarship

APA invites minority medical students to apply for its 2004 Institute on Psychiatric Services Meeting Travel Scholarship.

The scholarship is designed to bring minority medical students interested in public psychiatry, clinical issues, and the challenges of service delivery to APA's institute, where they will participate in a wide variety of resident and fellow activities at the meeting. It will provide participants with an unparalleled opportunity to meet and network with faculty, psychiatry residents, and each other. It is open to currently enrolled U.S. minority medical students. Selected students who are not APA members will automatically receive membership.

The scholarship supports travel and related costs for approximately 10 medical students to attend the institute, to be held October 6 to 10 in Atlanta.

This scholarship is a part of the APA Minority Fellowships Program and is supported by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Applicants must submit an application form (available online), a brief statement of interest not to exceed one typewritten page, a letter from the dean's office indicating that the applicant is a student in good standing, and the applicant's curriculum vitae.

Applications are due by August 30.

Applications and more information are available by contacting Marilyn King by phone at (703) 907-8653 or by e-mail at [email protected]; or visiting the Web<www.psych.org/edu/other_res/apa_fellowship/medstudtravel_IPS2004.pdf>.▪