Grants and Awards

Each year the National Med-Peds Residents’ Association presents several grants and awards to Med-Peds Residents. See links below for more details about the individual grants and awards. Presentations/blurbs from previous winners are posted under the individual grant page.

We are proud to announce our 2019 Grant and Award Winners! Research grant winner to be announced soon in this space. Thank you all for so many excellent submissions. Keep an eye out for submissions to re-open for 2020 awards in the spring!

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 New Orleans, LA, October 26, 2019 for Clinical Case Competition, Howard Schubiner Award, and Gary Onady Award
Must be able to attend NMPRA National Meeting in 2020 for Advocacy/Community Service Grant, International Travel Grant, QI Project Grant and Research Grant in order to present activities and experiences

2018

Grant Winners – Congratulations!

International Travel Grant: Dr. Abbie Rose Goodman (ECU/Vidant Medical Center)
Advocacy/Community Service Grant: Dr. Sarah Soliman and Dr. Eric Zuniga (LAC + USC Medical Center)
Quality Improvement Grant: Dr. Rebecca Moore (Brown University)
Resident Clinical Case Competition: Dr. Ariel Nash (Albany Medical College)
Medical Student Clinical Case Competition: Prarthana Patel, MSV (UMKC School of Medicine)

Gary Onady Award: Dr. Kathryn Nagel (Yale University)
Howard Schubiner Award: Dr. Valien Kondos (Christiana Care Health System)
Medical Student Interest Group Award: Brody School of Medicine at ECU
Research Grant: To be announced!

Winners will be presenting their research/cases at the 2019 NMPRA National Meeting. Previous winners’ presentations and/or blurbs are posted under the individual award pages.