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About APSA

Membership

The individual member is offered perpetually increasing resources to empower their training as they travel the career path toward bridging research and medicine.

Organization

Core Purpose:

The American Physician Scientists Association is dedicated to career development and community building among physician-scientists in training.

Mission:

The APSA strives to be the student physician-scientists' leading voice for improving educational opportunities, advancing patient-oriented research, and advocating for the future of translational medicine.

Objectives:

Focusing on the needs of students and housestaff, including but not limited to MD/PhD trainees, APSA will pursue being:

• The leading student organization for advancing opportunities for mentorship, community building, and mutual support of physician-scientists;
• The principal source for obtaining and disseminating career development information for student physician-scientists regarding education, residency training, and beyond;
• The most representative voice and influential advocate to policymakers and the American people regarding the need for supporting physician-scientist training;
• A dynamic organization that provides value to its members.

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