ABPN Award Programs

• Innovative approaches to train program directors to implement clinical skills evaluations
• Innovative approaches to faculty development for conducting clinical skills evaluations
• Innovative approaches to the development and assessment of professional competence
• Strategies to promote lifelong learning
• Innovative curricula for continuing certification (maintenance of certification), including teaching about MOC in residency
• Strategies to promote public education about and input into Board certification
• Strategies to promote physician resilience and to prevent burnout

• Effect of initial or continuing certification on quality of patient care
• Evaluation of innovative educational programs for effective residency and fellowship training of psychiatrists and neurologists
• Evaluation of innovative lifelong learning programs to support psychiatrists and neurologists in providing excellent care for their patients
• Validity and reliability of state-of-the-art testing methods to evaluate candidate and diplomate competencies
• Value of initial and continuing certification
• Relationship of certification to training, clinical practice, and lifelong learning
• Patient and public perceptions of board certification
• Psychiatry and neurology workforce trends

The ABPN Faculty Innovation in Education Award is intended to support the development of innovative education and/or evaluation projects that promote effective residency/fellowship training or lifelong learning of practicing psychiatrists and neurologists. Preference will be given to projects that have the potential for use in more than one site and to applicants who are at a junior or mid-faculty level.

Each year, up to two psychiatry and two neurology fellows will be selected.  The duration of the fellowship will normally be for two years with a maximum amount of funding of $50,000 per year or $100,000 total.  This amount is intended to cover salary, fringe benefits, and other costs.  No indirect costs will be covered.

• Applicants must:
  • be certified by the ABPN
  • participate in the ABPN’s continuing certification (maintenance of certification) program
  • hold an unrestricted license to practice medicine in a state, commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States
  • comply with the ABPN’s conflict of interest policies and procedures
  • hold a faculty appointment in a psychiatry or neurology department (or its equivalent) in a U.S. LCME-accredited medical school

The ABPN Research Award supports research projects related to the mission of the ABPN, which is to promote and assess the competency of psychiatry and neurology candidates for initial and continuing certification (maintenance of certification).

Each year, up to two psychiatry and two neurology awards will be made with a maximum amount of funding of $100,000 per award.  This amount is intended to cover salary, fringe benefits, and other costs.  No indirect costs will be covered.  The projects may take up to two years to be completed.

Applicants must:

• hold a faculty appointment in a psychiatry or neurology department (or its equivalent) in a U.S. LCME-accredited medical school
• comply with the ABPN’s conflict of interest policies and procedures

If the applicant is an MD or DO, they must:

• be certified by the ABPN
• participate in the ABPN’s continuing certification (maintenance of certification) program
• hold an unrestricted license to practice medicine in a state, commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States