The Laughlin Fellowship Program

This year, The College will select 10 third, fourth, and fifth-year Residents from the United States and Canada and pay for them to attend our Annual Meeting.  The Laughlin Fellows are chosen from an elite pool of applicants deemed likely to make a significant contribution to the field of psychiatry. They participate in all educational and social functions held during the Annual Meeting, making valuable contacts with their peers and College Members.

LAUGHLIN FELLOWSHIP NOMINATION PROCEDURE

Each separately accredited psychiatry Residency or Fellowship program may submit one nomination. The nominee must be a current PGY-3, PGY-4 or PGY-5 resident in general psychiatry or a resident in child, addiction, forensic, geriatric or psychosomatic psychiatry. Recipient of the Fellowship must be able to attend our Annual Meeting. The College provides a stipend to Laughlin Fellows to cover travel and hotel expenses.

The nomination deadline is August 16, 2010.  Nominations received after that date, even though postmarked earlier, cannot be accepted.

Compile Nomination Packet

  • nomination form
  • personal statment of no more than 750 words, double-spaced, which discusses the candidate's interests, long-range career goals in psychiatry and most import achievenments to date.
  • a complete curriculum vitae from the nominee
  • one letter of nomination no more than two pages single-spaced from a current residency training program director or a current department chair, indicating the reasons why this individual should be selected as a Laughlin Fellow (only one letter of nomination will be considered by the selection committee.)

Mail Nomination Packet 

Please send one complete package to:

Chair, Laughlin Fellowship Selection Committee
The American College of Psychiatrists
122 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 1360
Chicago, IL 60603
Angel@ACPsych.org
Phone: 312.662.1020

Or e-mail all documents in pdf format to Angel@ACPsych.org

Faxed applications will not be accepted.
Applicants will be notified by December 1, 2010.

NOMINATION DEADLINES
2010:  August 16, 2010