AOA Projects & Services: Awards & Recognition
AOA Helen H. Glaser Student Essay Award
The AOA Helen H. Glaser Student Essay Award's purpose is to encourage
medical students to address nontechnical topics in medicine and to enable
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society to recognize excellent and thoughtful
student presentations.
Prizes each year are $2000 first, $750 second, $500 third, and up to
three honorable mention awards of $250 each.
Authors must be enrolled at medical schools with active AOA chapters,
but need not be members of AOA.
AOA Student Research Fellowships
The purpose of the fellowships is to stimulate interest in research
among medical students. Areas of research may include clinical investigation,
basic research, epidemiology, and social science/health service research.
Up to 50 fellowships may be awarded annually to students in their first,
second, or third year (fourth-year students are not eligible). Each
will provide $3000 to the student for support of the proposed research
(one-half to be paid upon announcement of the award and one-half upon
completion of the research) and $500 to the faculty supervisor to meet
expenses incurred in support of the student's project.
Because the program is designed to attract students who have not had
extensive research experience, those with PhD degrees and those enrolled
in PhD or MD/PhD programs are not eligible. Students from any school
with an active AOA chapter are eligible, but each school may nominate
only one candidate.
AOA Medical Student Service Project Award
The Medical Student Service Project Award is available at any time
during the year by application to the AOA national office. The award
is open to any individual medical student or group of students collaborating
on a project from a school with an active AOA chapter; only one application
will be accepted from each school per academic year. Students need not
be AOA members.
The intent of this award is to aid in the establishment or expansion
of a medical student service project benefiting the school or the local
community, as well as to recognize students who dedicate their time
and effort to these endeavors. The school will be awarded up to $1500
to fund the project. Certificates of recognition will be given to the
student or group of students who were the primary developers of the
project. Funding can be extended for a second year (up to $1000), and
a third year (up to $500), based on annual progress reports submitted
to the AOA national office at the end of the first and second years
of funding.
Proposals describing the project and the involvement of the organizing
student(s) should be prepared by the involved student(s). Each application
must include an explanation of the project's goals and objectives, a
proposed budget, and plans for evaluation. The application must be limited
to two single-spaced pages (1-inch margins, 10-point or larger type).
AOA Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award
Volunteer clinical faculty members are often inadequately appreciated
and rarely recognized. Alpha Omega Alpha's Volunteer Clinical Faculty
Award is presented annually to recognize a community physician who contributes
with distinction to the education and training of clinical students.
The national office of AOA provides a permanent plaque for the Dean's
office; a plate with the name of each year's awardee may be added each
spring. The awardee receives a framed certificate from Alpha Omega Alpha.
Recipients of the award are not eligible to receive it more than once.
Nominees need not be members of AOA, nor does the award confer AOA membership.
Nominations for the Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award may be made by
all clinical students, with the recipient chosen by student members
of the AOA chapter.
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