Resident Scholarship to the Annual Meeting

Deadline to nominate a resident is November 2, 2009 11:59 PM.

Nominate a resident for this scholarship

Sponsors

The AAN and the AAN Foundation are the official sponsors of the resident scholarship to the AAN Annual Meeting.

Purpose

The resident scholarship is offered as an effort to recognize the importance of resident attendance at the AAN Annual Meeting. In order to receive one of the scholarships, residents need to be nominated for one by their Program Director. The $1,000 scholarship to be used to reimburse the resident for travel and registration expenses associated with attendance at the Annual Meeting. The scholarship will be given as an unrestricted educational grant to the resident’s institution and mailed to the Program Director after the Annual Meeting. If a program is located in the immediate vicinity of the Annual Meeting, the scholarship will be $500.

Objective

To recognize and reward residents who are AAN members interested in active involvement with the AAN.

Nominating Criteria

All residents nominated for a resident scholarship must meet the following nominating criteria for the scholarship.

• The resident demonstrates a commitment to neurological teaching, education, and/or community service.
• The resident must not have received one of the scholarships previously.
• The resident needs to be in neurology training (not a PGY-1 in Internal Medicine, or PGY-2 in Pediatrics on their way to Neurology) in order to be eligible.
• The resident must be an AAN member at the time that the scholarship is awarded.
• The resident MUST attend the Resident & Fellows Luncheon during the AAN Annual Meeting. If the resident does not attend the luncheon, he/she will forfeit the scholarship.
• The resident is interested in active involvement with the AAN.
• Nomination must include the resident’s curriculum vitae along with a letter of support from their program director.

The resident scholarship nomination application materials are reviewed by a panel of members from the Graduate Education Subcommittee (GES).

Additional Funding

In an effort to bring more residents to the AAN Annual Meeting, a fund was established through the AAN Foundation to provide more Resident Annual Meeting Scholarships using donated honoraria from AAN CME faculty. Depending on the amount of donated honoraria the AAN will award additional scholarships for the 2010 AAN Annual Meeting. Therefore, each program may nominate ONE ADDITIONAL resident for a possible resident scholarship. The GES will apply the existing application/nominating criteria, selection process, and deadlines to the additional pool of scholarship applications. Note: residents nominated for the second scholarship must be adult neurology residents.

Application Materials

In order for the application to be considered complete, nominating program directors must submit one complete set of the following materials:

• Completed application form
• Letter of support
• Completed tax form (W-9 for U.S. and W-8BEN for Canada) with institution information. (The tax form should include the tax information for the institution for which the check will be addressed, not the program director or resident information.)
• Nominated resident's curriculum vitae (CV)

Note: Being nominated does not guarantee receipt of the scholarship.