Resident Awards and Grants

Criteria

• An AMWA national resident member
• Demonstrated outstanding mentorship and guidance to AMWA national student and/or resident members as judged by highest and most active ratings as determined by AMWA student evaluations

Award

Awardees will be honored during AMWA’s Annual Meeting. The individual award recipient, as well as the nominating student member, is strongly encouraged to attend the meeting.

Nomination Process

Nominations should be submitted using the form below. Please direct questions to [email protected].

In honoring the achievements of AMWA’s resident members, we honor Dr. Christiansen’s dedication to the welfare and success of all women physicians in training. Dr. Christiansen’s work and commitment to AMWA is a celebration of what women can achieve and contribute to others. As an active advocate for universal access to health care, her work and accolades speak for themselves. We are extremely proud of her accomplishments and acknowledge that without the struggle of women like her, our careers as young women physicians would not be possible.

Criteria

• An AMWA national resident member
• Demonstrated altruism by acting unselfishly as an ambassador of the healing arts and AMWA for the continued promotion and success of healthcare and AMWA
• Must be nominated by an AMWA national member

Award

Awardees will be honored during AMWA’s Annual Meeting. The individual award recipient, as well as the nominating AMWA member, is strongly encouraged to attend the meeting.

Nomination Process

Nominations should be submitted using the form below. Please direct questions to [email protected].

uThis award is given to recognize the AMWA Resident Branch that has made exceptional strides in their activities for the year including recruitment efforts, service projects, and professional activities.

Criteria

• An active AMWA resident division branch as recognized by the resident division
• Demonstrated active involvement in activities/events and initiatives that promote AMWA’s mission in supporting mentorship, leadership, and advancement of women in medicine.

Award

Awardees will be honored during AMWA’s Annual Meeting.  A branch representative from the award recipient is strongly encouraged to attend the meeting.

Nomination Process

Nominations should be submitted using the form below. Please direct questions to [email protected].

In honoring the achievements of AMWA’s resident members, we honor Dr. Ivey’s dedication to the welfare and success of all women physicians in training. Dr. Ivey’s work and commitment to AMWA is a celebration of what women can achieve and contribute to others. Dr. Ivey was the 2006 – 2007 AMWA National Physician President whose courage led AMWA through financially difficult times. Dr. Ivey has stayed on as vital mentor to AMWA students and residents. As an active advocate for women’s health issues, her work and accolades speak for themselves. We are extremely proud of her accomplishments and acknowledge that without the struggle of women like her, our careers as young women physicians would not be possible.

Criteria

• An AMWA national resident member
• Demonstrated exceptional leadership skills through vision, inspiration, innovation, and coordination of projects that further the mission of AMWA by improving women’s health and/or supporting women in medicine
• Must be nominated by an AMWA national member

Award

Awardees will be honored during AMWA’s Annual Meeting. The individual award recipient, as well as the nominating AMWA member, is strongly encouraged to attend the meeting.

Nomination Process

Nominations should be submitted using the form below. Please direct questions to [email protected].

Criteria

• An AMWA national resident member
• Demonstrated exceptional contributions to medical science, especially in women’s health, through her basic and/or clinical research, her publications and through leadership in her field.

Submission categories include: Clinical care – best practices, Clinical care – case study, Research – human subjects (clinical), Research – bench, and other.

All poster presenters are eligible for Young Women in Science Awards, which will be presented separately for the student and resident divisions.

• Abstracts and posters may NOT be duplicates of submissions from previous AMWA conferences.
• Each presenter may submit only 1 poster abstract for consideration.
• All author names and email addresses are required and ALL authors must sign off on submission for the abstract to be eligible for consideration. An email will be sent to each author for their electronic signature at the bottom of the abstract submission form.
• Submitting author must be available to present at the conference.
• Poster abstract must be 300 words or less (author names do NOT count toward word limit), and should be structured as follows:
  • For Scientific Research: Authors’ names (ex. Smith, Jane, L.), Hypothesis, Methods, Results, Conclusions
  • For Clinical Cases: Authors’ names (ex. Smith, Jane, L.), Case, Conclusions, Clinical Significance

Selection Process

Posters will be judged at the AMWA National Conference by a judging panel.

Contact [email protected] with any questions. 

The winner will receive a monetary award.

In honor of Dr. Susan Love, a prominent author for the public on women’s health, we established a writing contest in 2015 in order to offer our members recognition for their creative work.

About Dr. Susan Love

Susan Love, MD/MBA is an American female surgeon, author and advocate for preventive breast cancer research. She attended medical school at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center where she graduated with honors and completed a surgical residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Massachusetts. At the start of her career, she was one of few female surgeons. However, despite the gender-based obstacles she faced early on, she became a trailblazer for women’s health, developing new techniques for breast cancer surgery. In addition she published Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book, which the New York Times called the “bible for women with breast cancer.” She served on the National Cancer Advisory Board under President Clinton in 1998 and helped establish the National Breast Cancer Coalition which influenced the federal government to augment research funding for breast cancer from $90 to $420 million. She serves as the chief visionary officer of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation which is dedicated to identifying where and how breast cancer begins and is engaged in innovative approaches to conducting research in this field.

Contest Rules

• Authors must be active AMWA-RD members
• The topic of the piece should be about Women and Medicine
• It must be prose, and must not be illustrated
• The writing submitted must be unique and unpublished in any outlet, including personal blogs
• There is a 1000 word limit. The font and text size is up to the author’s choice
• Submit your essay

If there are any questions, please email [email protected].

2024 Winner

Laura Grace Wolfe, MD — Essay and Bio

Previous Winners

2015 Preethi Raghu, MD (First place) and Regina Toto, MD (Second place) — Essays & Bios

2023 Krystal Mills, MD — Essay and Bio

2022 Bridget Findlay, MD — Essay and Bio

2021 Ovini Rodrigo, MD, MSc — Essay & Bio

2020 Tara Shrout, MD MSc — Essay & Bio

2019 Brit Trogen, MD — Essay & Bio

2018 Elizabeth Brigham, MD

2017 Angela Jarman, MD (First place) and Chung Sang Tse, MD (Second place)

2016 Preethi Raghu, MD

The Vivian E. Shih Memorial Fund was established within the American Medical Women’s Association to support and inspire future women in medical training and the programs that nurture their professional growth.

Scholarship recipients will spend the year working on initiatives to advance women in medicine initiatives during their training years, with a particular focus on residency training and assistance in planning the GME Symposium. The scholarship stipend will help support their participation in the AMWA Annual Meeting.

Applicants must be AMWA resident members in good standing.