Grants & Awards

APGO is proud to sponsor award programs that play a major role in the advancement of health care for women.

Over the years, these endowments have helped APGO further faculty development, educational research activities, innovative new curricula and an outstanding collection of women's health care publications.

APGO Awards
APGO makes these awards available through generous contributions from members and friends of APGO and members of the APGO Corporate Liaison Council. Read more about these awards, below.

APGO Medical Education Endowment Fund Grant Program
Request for Proposals 2011 - Strict Proposal Deadline May 2, 2011 at 5pm

PROJECT PURPOSE:
The APGO Medical Education Endowment Fund Grant Program was established in 2009 as a new initiative of the association. This program will provide financial support to stimulate research and innovations in health science education. Three grants (up to $15,000 per project) will be made to APGO members who submit a written proposal and budget for a project that strives to improve education by innovative approaches. Projects demonstrating a direct, measurable, positive impact on medical student education will be most competitive for the award.

For 2011, the projects must focus on any one of the following areas: 

* Patient Safety/Quality Improvement
* Leadership and Advocacy
* Underserved or Global Health

Click here for specific application procedures, selection criteria and reporting requirements for the 2011 APGO Medical Education Endowment Fund Grant Program.

Click here for a list of past recipients of the APGO Medical Education Endowment Fund Award.

The deadline for submission is October 1 of each year for the first two awards:

APGO Resident Scholars Awards
This award program covers up to $1,000 in travel and hotel expenses, and waives the registration fee, for six third- or fourth-year residents to attend the CREOG & APGO Annual Meeting, to be exposed to the activities and benefits of APGO at an early stage in their careers.   

APGO Martin L. Stone, MD Fund for the Advancement of Medical Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology
The award provides financial support for projects that expand the educational capabilities and/or measurably enhances the educational programs initiated by graduates of the APGO Academic Scholars and Leaders Program.

The 2010 Martin L. Stone, MD Award recipient is Jody Steinauer, MD, from the University of California at San Francisco for her research project, “Opting Out of Abortion Training: A Qualitative Study of Ob-Gyn Resident and Faculty Experiences.” Doctor Steinauer is a graduate of the 2008-2009 APGO Academic Scholars and Leaders Program.  Click here to view past recipients of the Martin L. Stone, MD Award.

Click here to access the Awards Progress Report Form (to be used by all APGO Award winners for their six-month progress report).

APGO Excellence in Teaching Award
The APGO Excellence in Teaching Award was established in 1992 to recognize outstanding teachers in ob-gyn medical education. Over 1,500 physician educators have received this prestigious award since its inception. Click here to view the recipients of the 2010 Excellence in Teaching Awards.

Past recipients (from 2002-2008) of the APGO Excellence in Teaching Award may order ONE of the new Excellence in Teaching lapel pins at a cost of $5 each. Shipping and handling is included. Please complete the order form and fax or mail it to APGO.

Recipients names are announced annually in a Fall edition of the APGO e-Bulletin.

APGO Electronic Educational Resource Award (e-ERA)

From 2002 to 2009, APGO has used the Website of Excellence award to encourage the use of this platform to enhance medical student education in obstetrics & gynecology. In the last 7 years, we have witnessed a tremendous growth in website utilization such that clerkship websites are now commonplace.

APGO wants to challenge educators in a new way with the establishment of the APGO Electronic Educational Resource Award (e-ERA) which will replace the Website of Excellence Award.

APGO e-ERA will recognize excellence in development of electronic learning resources.To be eligible, the learning resource must be:

*  publically available and internet-based
*  educational content must be primarily directed toward medical student learning
*  in the area of obstetrics and gynecology, or in the areas of women’s health
*  obstetrics and gynecology should be featured prominently in the resource

Resources primarily targeted at resident learners are not eligible for this award.

Pamela A. Geller, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology and Public Health at Drexel University, is the 2010 APGO e-ERA winner. Her award-winning Web resource can be viewed at this link.

Winners receive an APGO e-ERA award logo to display on the title page of the electronic learning resource.

APGO Academic Scholars and Leaders Program
This program is a comprehensive educational curriculum designed to help ob-gyn professors teach women's health more effectively. The program’s purpose is to provide interested faculty, who have major teaching responsibilities, with a vigorous curriculum addressing aspects of the educational process. Through a combination of didactic sessions, independent study, and projects supervised by course faculty and local mentors, graduates will be taught instructional theory, research design, curriculum design, multiple instructional formats and other tools necessary to be leaders in ob-gyn education.

Click here for information on how to apply for the 2012-2013 class. The deadline for applications is July 8, 2011.

APGO Surgical Scholars Program
This program's purpose is to refine the teaching skills of ob-gyn faculty who teach and evaluate learners in hysteroscopic surgery. This innovative two and one-half-day course presents state-of-the-art teaching strategies and evaluative tools, and will provide the scholar with a comprehensive curriculum that can be implemeted at their home institution.

Applications for the 2011 program, September 9-10, 2011, in Mountain View, CA, must be submitted electronically to apgoadmin@apgo.org by May 4, 2011. If you do not receive a confirmation of receipt within 4 business days, please contact the APGO office at (410) 451-9560.

APGO Surgical Scholars Program Task Force

ACOG Awards
Complete information about all ACOG awards can be found on the member side of the ACOG Web site, www.acog.org, under the heading Education, then Research Fellowships and Awards.