• Residents may be nominated by the department chair, vice-chair (education), director of residency education or a faculty member.   Preference will be given to candidates who have at least one letter from an AAP member.  Residents must be a PGY-3 or above and be in training at the time of the award.
• Current CV (resident nominee)
• Resident nominee personal statement. The statement must describe the nominee's vision for his/her career as an academic psychiatrist and how this fellowship may help him/her to achieve those goals. Statement is limited to a maximum of 500 words.
• Two or three letters of support from senior departmental members (e.g., chair, training director, senior supervisor), each approximately two pages in length commenting on:
  • The resident’s demonstrated ability as a teacher (emphasized in the fellow selection process);
  • The resident’s commitment to an academic career;
  • The department’s interest and plans for fostering the resident’s professional, academic, and personal growth, including a statement of the department’s willingness to provide partial financial support for the candidate if he/she is selected as a fellow. (Departmental support is not used as a selection criterion and is not a consideration of the Fellowship Committee when choosing recipients of the Fellowship);
  • Publications, presentations, and educational, or research projects in which the nominee has played a major role; and
  • Personal qualities that bear upon the nominee’s capacities in academic medicine and describing relevant experiences in the teaching/learning continuum.
• Electronic submission required. All materials should be included in a single .pdf submission.

Note: Nominees for AAP fellowship will be judged first and foremost on merit, based on the criteria above. If more than one nomination comes from an institutional member, the institution will be notified (since nominations could come from separate hospitals or departments). If more than one is meritorious, AAP will fund the highest rated one (other than airfare, as usual) and the institution will have the option of completely funding the other one.

DEADLINE: April 1, 2021

For further inquiries, contact Mara Pheister, MD, Fellows and Residency Training Committee chair, at mpheister@mcw.edu.