Grants and Awards

ach year the National Med-Peds Residents’ Association presents several grants and awards to Med-Peds Residents. Deadline for all awards and grants will be Friday, June 29, 2018 at 11:59 PM EST, with the exception of Research Grant with a deadline of Friday, July 26, 2018 11:59 EST. See links below for more details about the individual grants and awards. Presentations/blurbs from previous winners are posted under the individual grant page.

For medical students, we are excited to announce a new award, the Outstanding Medical Student Interest Group Award, for which the winning group will receive a monetary award as well as national recognition at the yearly national meeting! See further details for the award on the separate page below.

Applications now open! See the individual grant/award pages below on how to apply.
Submit applications by email to president-elect@medpeds.org

The Gary Onady Award: Recognizing significant contributions by a Med-Peds Resident physician to NMRPA and/or Med-Peds at the regional or national level
The Howard Schubiner Award: Recognizing significant contributions by a Med-Peds Resident physicians to NMRPA and/or Med-Peds at the local or state level
Advocacy/Community Service Grants: Up to $1000 for a project to help children and adults in a local community
Clinical Case Competition Awards: Presentation awards for novel Med-Peds clinical cases to be presented at the NMPRA National Meeting
International Travel Grant: Up to $500 grant for an international clinical Internal Medicine or Pediatrics elective during residency
Research Grant: Up to $2500 in funding for a resident-driven clinical research project
Outstanding Medical Student Interest Group Award: $300 award for group that best exemplifies the values of NMPRA
Quality Improvement Project Grant: $150 award to a resident in order to fund their quality improvement project at their home institution.

Eligibility

Must be a Med-Peds Resident at the time of application (with the exception of the separate medical student case competition)
Must be a NMPRA member at the time of application
- If not already a member, please go to www.medpeds.org to find out how to join
Must be able to attend NMPRA National Meeting in Orlando, FL on November 3, 2018 for Clinical Case Competition, Howard Schubiner Award, and Gary Onady Award
Must be able to attend NMPRA National Meeting in New Orleans, LA in October 2019 for Advocacy/Community Service Grant, International Travel Grant, QI Project Grant and Research Grant in order to present activities and experiences

2017

Grant Winners – Congratulations!

Advocacy/Community Service: Dr Eric Chow (Brown University), TEACH: Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Care in Woonsocket, RI
Resident Case Competition: Dr. Michelle El-Hosni (Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University), It’s always the quiet ones: A fatal case of Lactobacillus endocarditis
Medical Student Case Competition: Selena Marie-Rodriguez, MS4 (University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine), Surpassing Genetic Odds: A case of survival in a short arm chromosome deletion
Gary Onady: Dr. Robin Felker (University of Massachusetts)
Howard Schubiner: Dr. Christopher Terry (Brown University)
International Travel Grant: Dr. David Flood (University of Minnesota), Maya Health Alliance Project on Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes and Malnutrition in Tecpán, Guatemala
Research Grant: Dr. Robin Ortiz (Johns Hopkins), Elucidating the Epigenetic Underpinnings of HPA Axis Dysfunction in Diabetes and Cardiometabolic Disease Risk, Outcomes, and Comorbidities
Medical Student Interest Group Award: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Winners will be presenting their research/cases at the 2018 NMPRA National Meeting. Previous winners’ presentations and/or blurbs are posted under the individual award pages.