Internships and Fellowships
Application deadline: Jan. 31, 2013
The AMA Government Relations Advocacy Fellowship (GRAF) offers medical students a unique opportunity to experience firsthand the intersection of organized medicine and the federal government as it relates to advocacy and policy-making. One Fellow is selected each spring to work in Washington, D.C., as a full-time, paid member of the AMA's federal advocacy team for one year.
Application deadline: Feb. 15, 2013
The AMA Government Relations Internship Program (GRIP) offers medical students a unique opportunity to increase their involvement and education in national health policy and in the national legislative activities of organized medicine. GRIP provides stipends to assist selected students completing summer health policy internships in the Washington, D.C., area. In addition to the duties of their internships, GRIP participants attend weekly educational seminars at the AMA's D.C. office.
Unfortunately, we are no longer able to offer the AMA/Discovery Channel elective rotation and an alternative is not available.
Application deadline: rolling
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), one of the foremost medical journals in the world, offers a 4-week elective in medical editing for 4th-year medical students who meet certain criteria.
Contact Robert Golub, MD, JAMA Senior Editor, for more information
Application deadline: November 2013
Virtual Mentor, the AMA's online ethics journal, offers medical students and residents the opportunity to serve as theme issue editors. Each theme issue editor is responsible for
- selecting a theme for one issue and defining the ethical and professionalism concerns inherent in that theme,
- generating case narratives that provide opportunities for examining those concerns in clinical and educational contexts,
- identifying, securing, and corresponding with contributors to the issue, and
- editing copy and reviewing page proofs before the issue goes live on the first working day of the month.
A stipend of $1,000 is provided.
Learn more and apply to serve as a Virtual Mentor theme issue editor
Application deadline: Dec. 14, 2012
AMPAC Candidate Workshop
February 15-17, 2013
Arlington, Va.
The American Medical Association Political Action Committee (AMPAC) Candidate Workshop is designed for AMA members who are considering a run for public office, and includes training on campaign strategy and media advertising, as well as hands-on sessions in public speaking and fundraising.
All costs for AMA members, except transportation to the Washington, D.C., metro area, are borne by AMPAC.
Medical student admission is limited.
Application deadline: Jan. 18, 2013
AMPAC Campaign School
April 17-21, 2013
Arlington, Va.
The American Medical Association Political Action Committee (AMPAC) Campaign School program is intended for AMA members who wish to become involved in the political process as advocates and volunteers for medicine-friendly candidates. The School is organized around a simulated congressional campaign, where participants are put on campaign "staff" teams and attend daily lectures on campaign strategy, media advertising, and political fundraising. Each team participates in nightly exercises such as creating a campaign strategy, taping a radio commercial, and writing a political fundraising letter.
All costs for AMA members, except transportation to the Washington, D.C., metro area, are borne by AMPAC.
Medical student admission is limited.
Application deadline: January 2013
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Research Training Fellowship provide funds to support fellows and meet their research- and education- related expenses. HHMI awards the fellowships through an annual competition. The fellowship provides support for one year of full-time research training in fundamental biomedical research and includes a stipend, a research allowance to meet a fellow’s research-related expenses, and a fellow’s allowance to be used for health care and education-related expenses incurred as part of the fellowship.
Fellowship research must be conducted at an academic or nonprofit research institution in the United States, excluding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.
Learn more and apply for an HHMI Research Training Fellowship
Application deadline: January 2013
The NIH Clinical Research Training Program for Medical and Dental Students is a 12-month program designed to attract the most creative, research-oriented medical and dental students to the intramural campus of the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. Participants spend a year engaged in a mentored clinical or translational research project in an area that matches their personal interests and goals.
Learn more and apply for the NIH Clinical Research Training Program
Application deadline: December 7, 2012
The CDC Experience Applied Epidemiology Fellowship is a one-year fellowship tailored for rising 3rd- and 4th-year medical students, designed to increase the pool of physicians with a population health perspective. Nine competitively selected fellows spend 10–12 months at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offices in Atlanta, Ga., where they carry out epidemiologic analyses in various areas of public health. Examples of previous and current areas of concentration include viral and bacterial diseases, cardiovascular health, obesity prevention, birth defects, STDs, injury prevention, and air pollution and respiratory health.
Questions? Send an e-mail to cdcexperience@cdcfoundation.org.
Learn more and apply for the CDC Experience Applied Epidemiology Fellowship
