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Early Career Visiting Pilot Program

Provides early-career SIR members with greater insight to expand their practice and explore different practice models.

Closed
Application due Aug 18, 2024
Early Career

Award

$500 stipend.

Application due Aug 18, 2024

About

The Early Career Visiting Pilot Program is a 1-day shadowing opportunity that would provide early-career SIR members with greater insight to expand their practice and explore different practice models.

Eligibility

  • Applicants must be an early career attending physician (up to 8 years out of training) within the U.S. or Canada.
  • Applicants must be an SIR member.

The following application materials must be submitted within the online application:

  • Up-to-date CV/Resume
  • Answers to each of the following four short essay questions (250 words or less):
    1. What are your career goals?
    2. What do you feel that you have lacked from your training?
    3. What do you want to get out of this program/hope to learn?
    4. What prompted you to select the site(s) you choose?

Post-experience requirement

Upon returning home, program participants must submit one of the following below:

  • A 500-word essay about the experience
  • A 3–4 minute recorded video about the experience

These submitted materials may be published in part or in its entirety in society publications or on the SIR website.

Once the final essay is received recipients will receive their $500 stipends via wire transfer.