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A Letter from Freddy

Freddy Nguyen, Chairman—Board of Directors, Past President, American Physician Scientists Association

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Dear Members of the APSA,

It has been with deep pleasure to have served as your President during the past four years. However, as I write my last President‘s Column, I am taking this opportunity to look back over some of APSA‘s major accomplishments during this formative period. What initially began as an idea between four MD-PhD students in late 2003 has now grown into an a full-fledged professional organization made up of over 1100 members from nearly 200 medical institutions, hospitals, and universities in the United States and Canada. APSA also holds active representation from over 120 medical schools that make up the Institutional Representatives of the APSA. As the organization continued to grow in membership, APSA also grew the number and depth of projects that surrounded the themes of Mentoring, Networking, Outreach, and Resources. I hope these few examples of what we have been able to accomplish through the APSA to date will inspire you as a future physician-scientist to become more proactive about your own training, your own career, and your individual role in the physician-scientist community. In the same spirit, I hope that it will further encourage you to engage your APSA leadership at every level (local, regional, and national) in helping us help you address your needs and issues and to help empower you as a physician-scientist trainee.