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Call for Applications: American Academy of Family Physicians National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students Scholarships

July 26 – 28, 2012 Kansas City, Missouri

Community Outreach Award -- As a resident or student, have you taken a key leadership role in a community service or advocacy project? Tell us about your project and its impact on the community.

Family Medicine Interest Group (FMIG) Leadership Award -- Are you creative and innovative when it comes to planning FMIG activities? This is the scholarship for you. (This award is not limited to FMIG officers.)

First-Time Student Attendee Award -- Want to see what all the talk is about? Let us know the reasons you want to attend National Conference.

Minority Scholarship Program for Residents and Students -- What challenges and opportunities do you see for family medicine's future? Your answer could win you a scholarship to National Conference.

Tomorrow’s Leader Award -- Do you possess the skills of a leader? Explain how you will lead the change to address the challenges and opportunities facing family physicians, and you could be one of the resident or medical student award recipients.

Rules and Information
You must be a member of the AAFP to apply.

 You may only apply for one scholarship annually.

If you are a previous National Conference scholarship recipient, you may not apply for the same scholarship.

The number of scholarships in each category varies from year to year, depending on the number of applicants.

Scholarship recipients are selected by a panel of judges.

The $500 scholarship is intended to help reduce out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., registration, travel, lodging, meals) to attend National Conference.

All scholarships are awarded at National Conference. If you are unable to attend the conference, your scholarship will be forfeited.

Deadline
Scholarship applications (with any required signatures and documentation) must be received via fax, email, or mail postmarked no later than May 1, 2012.

Winners will be notified on May 31, 2012.

Contact Us
Questions? Contact Ashley Jungles at ajungles@aafp.org or (800) 274-2237, ext. 6726.

American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians 2012 Scholarship

Deadline for application is February 15, 2012

The ACOFP Scholarship Committee will award the following scholarships to qualified osteopathic medical students.

Four $2,500 Scholarships • Twenty $1,000 Scholarships

Applicants must meet the following criteria:

-- Currently enrolled at an accredited osteopathic medical school – OMS II, OMS III, OMS IV
-- Student member of ACOFP and active with an ACOFP Student Chapter for at least one year
-- List all Chapter, State and National ACOFP activities
-- Intend to enter an AOA approved family medicine residency program
-- A personal letter explaining why you want to be an osteopathic family physician
-- Must submit letters of recommendation from:

1. An AOBFP certified family medicine osteopathic physician
2. ACOFP Student Chapter Faculty Advisor

Scholarships will be distributed in May 2012. Awards will go directly to the student.

Center for the History of Family Medicine Fellowship in the History of Family Medicine

The Center for the History of Family Medicine (CHFM) is proud to announce its second annual Fellowship in the History of Family Medicine. Interested family physicians, other health professionals, historians, scholars, educators, scientists and others are invited to apply.

The successful applicant will be awarded a fellowship grant in an amount of up to $1,500 to support travel, lodging and incidental expenses relating to conducting research on a project of their choosing dealing with any aspect on the history of General Practice, Family Practice, or Family Medicine in the United States. The fellowship will be awarded directly to the individual applicant and not to the institution where he or she may be employed.

The deadline to apply is Friday, March 30, 2012. All applications will be reviewed in April, with the Fellowship award announced by May 31, 2012.

Complete fellowship rules, application forms and instructions are available online through the Center’s website at the following link:

http://www.aafpfoundation.org/online/foundation/home/programs/center-history/fellowship.html

Or, for more information, please contact:

Don Ivey, MPA
Manager
Center for the History of Family Medicine
11400 Tomahawk Creek Parkway
Leawood, KS 66211
Telephone: (800) 274-2237, ext. 4420
Fax: (913) 906-6095
E-mail: chfm@aafp.org

The CHFM serves as the principal resource center for the collection, conservation, exhibition and study of materials relating to the history of Family Medicine in the United States. The Center is located at the national headquarters of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) in Leawood, Kansas and is part of the non-profit AAFP Foundation. For more information on the Center, contact Center staff via telephone at 1-800-274-2237 (ext. 4420 or 4422), via fax at (913) 906-6095, or via e-mail at chfm@aafp.org or visit us on the web at www.aafpfoundation.org/chfm