Each year Residency Training Program Directors and/or Department Chairs are invited to nominate one Resident from their program to receive the NIMH Outstanding Resident Award in Psychiatric Research.

The NIMH Outstanding Resident Award Program was introduced to the medical community in 1988 and has developed into a very successful annual program.  Several award recipients have become NIMH Clinical Research Fellows. Now in its 20th year, the NIMH Intramural Research Program wants to extend a sincere appreciation to the Residency Program Directors who have supported this program and nominated candidates over the years.

This award is intended to honor psychiatric residents with outstanding academic potential that have entered their PGY-III level by December 2009.  We are pleased at this time to request one nomination per school program for the NIMH Outstanding Resident Award for 2009. 

Factors that will be considered in selecting recipients of this award will be:

1. Your nomination letter of a current PGY-II psychiatric resident addressing the unique role the nominee has undertaken in psychiatric clinical care, teaching and research, and accomplishments that set her/him apart
2. The nominee’s Curriculum Vitae
3. A brief description by the nominee of his/her interest in a career in academic psychiatry and/or clinical research

The online nomination for the award must be received by the Office of Fellowship Training at NIMH by Friday, May 8, 2009.  Winners of the award will be chosen the first week of May 2009 and will be our guests at the NIH for a two-day awards program on October 8-9, 2009.

The NIMH Award includes:

• A framed commemoration honoring their selection as an NIMH Outstanding Resident Award Recipient
• An invitation to come to the NIH October 8-9, 2009 as our guests for a two-day award program to meet with NIMH Researchers and be introduced to the cutting edge research conducted at the NIMH
• An invitation to present a 10-15-minute talk about their research
• Inclusion in the presitgious company of nearly 250 residents that have received this award since the inception of this program in 1988

To facilitate the introduction of the awardees to one another and to the NIMH clinical research community, we are inviting all award recipients to present a 10-15 minute talk about their research.

Click here to view the tentative agenda for this year’s program.

We appreciate your assistance in our attempts to identify and honor future leaders of American psychiatry.  If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Margarita Valencia at 301-451-4512 or mv36t@nih.gov.