Poster Contest for Residents and Fellows

All entries for the MPS poster competition for our Resident-Fellow Members will be displayed at our virtual annual meeting in April 2025!  The winner will receive a $200 cash prize as well as a complimentary ticket to the meeting. Two finalists will also be selected and will receive $100 each in addition to complimentary tickets. Dinner ticket funding courtesy of the Maryland Foundation for Psychiatry. The winners of past competitions are listed here.  Please click here for complete details about the process and requirements.  The deadline to enter is February 14, 2025. Electronic copies of posters are also due February 24.  For more information, or to apply please click here.

MPS Best Paper Awards Deadline February 14, 2025

To recognize outstanding scholarship by young psychiatrists in Maryland, the MPS established annual “best paper” awards in 2013.  Previous winners are listed here. The Academic Psychiatry Committee is currently soliciting nominations for the 2024 Paper of the Year Award in three categories:

• Best Paper by an Early Career Psychiatrist Member (ECP): Eligible psychiatrists are ECP members who are first authors of papers published or in press in 2024. The winner will receive a $200 cash prize as well as a complimentary ticket to the MPS annual dinner in April 2025. Dinner ticket funding courtesy of the Maryland Foundation for Psychiatry.

• Best Paper by a Resident-Fellow Member (RFM): Eligible physicians are Resident-Fellow members who are first authors of papers that were written, in press, and/or published in 2024.  The winner will receive a $200 cash prize as well as a complimentary ticket to the MPS annual dinner in April 2025. Dinner ticket funding courtesy of the Maryland Foundation for Psychiatry.

• Best Paper by a Medical Student Member: Eligible individuals are Medial Student Members who are first authors of papers published or in press in 2024.  The winner will receive a $200 cash prize as well as a complimentary ticket to the MPS annual dinner in April 2025. Dinner ticket funding courtesy of the Maryland Foundation for Psychiatry.

Scholarly work of all kinds (e.g., scientific reports, reviews, case reports) will be considered.  If you would like to nominate a paper and author, please email or mail the paper as indicated below by February 14, 2025.  Please include a brief explanation of why you believe the work is worthy of special recognition.

Matthew E. Peters, M.D.

Academic Psychiatry Committee Co-Chair
Johns Hopkins University
733 North Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
mpeter42@jhmi.edu  / mps@mdpsych.org

Traci J. Speed, M.D., Ph.D.
Academic Psychiatry Committee Co-Chair

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
5510 Nathan Shock Drive, Suite 100
Baltimore, MD 21224

speed@jhmi.edu / mps@mdpsych.org

Have You Published Lately?

The MPS would like to highlight recent journal articles published by its members.  If you have published within the past year, please email the title, publication, date and preferably a link to mps@mdpsych.org.  Please also include a photo and a sentence or two summary, if possible.