Resident Scholarship Award

Overview: The need for capacity building in family medicine research is well recognized. One strategy for accomplishing this goal is to mentor and recognize residents for their accomplishments in scholarly activities. The Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD), the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) and the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) have developed this award to both recognize resident scholarly activity and, by doing so, promote increased family medicine research and scholarly activity.

Purpose: To recognize outstanding family medicine scholarship performed by residents.

Designation of the Award: One award may be made by each family medicine residency program annually. The AFMRD / NAPCRG / CFPC Boards suggest that each program create a committee to review resident scholarly activity applications and make the award recommendation to the program director. AFMRD / NAPCRG / CFPC does not select the honorees; departments or programs will inform the organizations who should be honored from their program. AFMRD / NAPCRG / CFPC will supply the certificate that will be presented to the resident receiving the award to the program (the certificate may be framed by the program if it elects to do so).   

 Restrictions

• No resident may win the award more than once.
• Only one award per program will be awarded annually.
• The scholarly activity for consideration must have been completed while the resident was in residency training.
• The nature of the scholarly activity and whether it “qualifies” is at the discretion of the program’s award committee.
• Jointly done scholarly activity between two or more residents may be eligible for a joint award. In this instance only, multiple certificates may be requested.  A minimal handling cost of $4 will be assessed.

• Scholarly activity must be in large measure performed by the resident. This activity includes most, but not necessarily all, of the following: the inception of the idea, development of the project, gathering data, presenting the results, or writing a report or publication.

 You may make your request online. Names must be submitted exactly as they are to appear on the certificate. The deadline for submitting your request is May 7, 2010 (extended from April 16). For additional questions, contact Susan Quigg at (800) 274-2237, extension 6705.

Programs should present these certificates at graduation or similar ceremonies in the spring or summer.