The Visiting Scholar Award program is consonant with the Society's mission to promote research and education in psychosomatic medicine. Scholars from APS have visited with many medical schools over the years presenting at grand rounds, leading workshops, and meeting with individual faculty. These visits have been very well received. We have been told that many of our scholars have made lasting contributions to institutional teaching and research programs.
Applications are now open to medical schools outside North America.
The granting of a Visiting Scholar Award is based on competitive applications. In providing this award, the Society's aims are to impart an awareness of the exciting advances in psychosomatic medicine, and to stimulate interest, education and research in this area. The Society reserves the right, however, to substitute a different individual as Visiting Scholar. The application consists of a letter which describes how the Visiting Scholar will be utilized. The letter must include specific proposals, but need not be longer than 2 or 3 pages.