Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) 2024 Herbert W. Nickens Junior Faculty Fellowship
Institutionally Coordinated // Limit: 1
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This award recognizes an outstanding assistant-level faculty member who demonstrates leadership potential in addressing inequity in medical education and health care; demonstrates efforts in addressing educational, societal, and health care needs of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States; and is committed to a career in academic medicine.
The recipient receives a $25,000 grant to support a project performed in the United States to support racial and ethnic minorities. Recipients are required to accept the award at Learn Serve Lead 2024: The AAMC Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
A medical school may nominate one current faculty member per year for this award. A candidate must:
- Be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
- Hold the rank of full-time assistant professor in a LCME-accredited U.S. medical school department.
- Have held the assistant professor position appointment beginning no earlier than July 1, 2021.
- Have received only one appointment as assistant professor.
- Hold a MD, PhD, or have earned another doctoral degree.