FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENT AWARD FOR SCHOLARSHIP

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 the AFMRD / NAPCRG / CFPC Family Medicine Resident Award for Scholarship to both recognize resident scholarly activity and, by doing so, promote increased capacity building in family medicine research and scholarly activity.

One award will be made by each family medicine residency program annually. The AFMRD / NAP-CRG / CFPC Boards have suggested 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 supply the certificate that will be presented to the resident receiving the award to the program.

As developed by the participating organizations, the following restrictions apply: 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 2 or more residents may be eligible for a joint award (each resident will receive a certificate), and 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.

The AFMRD / NAPCRG / CFPC Family Medicine Resident Award for Scholarship was first available last year to residency programs. Further information regarding deadlines for submission of nominees will be provided to program directors later this year.

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