The Aerospace Medical Association offers three scholarship opportunities to financially assist those pursuing Aerospace Medicine training programs. Deadlines for applying for these applications are rapidly approaching. Scholarship descriptions and application requirements are listed below and can be found here http://www.asma.org/pdf/asma-scholarships.pdf.
The Jeffrey R. Davis, M.D., Aerospace Medicine Endowed Scholarship: awards $500.00 to a recipient. AsMA /AMSRO members can use the scholarship to attend any of the aerospace medicine conferences at the University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston, TX). Students/residents currently attending UTMB can use the scholarship to attend the AsMA Annual Scientific Meeting. Apply by completing the application form (http://www.asma.org/pdf/davis_scholarship_app.pdf) and submitting it to the AsMA Headquarters (jsventek@asma.org) by January 31.
Aerospace Medical Students and Residents Organization (AMSRO) Scholarship: offers a $1,000 travel stipend to students and residents for attending an aerospace medicine meeting of their choice. Applications (http://www.asma.org/members/AsMA_scholarship_app.doc) are currently submitted to Alex Garbino at garbino@bcm.edu; electronic submissions are required. Deadline is January 31.
AsMA Fellows Scholarship: $2,000 is given annually to an AsMA member who is a student in an aerospace medicine residency program, graduate program in aerospace medicine (Masters or Ph.D.), medical certificate or aerospace diploma course, or in a full time education/training program in the allied fields such as nursing, physiology, human factors, psychology, ergonomics, engineering, etc. Selection criteria include delivering a slide or poster presentation as a first author at an AsMA Annual Scientific Meeting and then publish a manuscript as first author in the Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine journal that is based on the same topic and/or material covered in the slide or poster presentation delivered at the AsMA meeting. All AsMA members whose abstracts are accepted for presentation at the next AsMA meeting will receive detailed information on eligibility criteria and the application process (including an application form). For detailed information about this scholarship and the application form please go here http://www.asma.org/pdf/fellows-scholarship_docs.pdf. Deadline is January 31.