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Benefits for APA Medical Student Members

Featured Benefits

  • How We Prepare You for Residency

    How We Prepare You for Residency

    APA's Summer Medical Student Program participants learn about various psychiatric subfields and receive mentorship from psychiatric residents who can assist them through experiential advice on academic and professional goal setting.

  • How We Connect You

    How We Connect You

    PsychSIGN connects medical student members across the country to their peers, psychiatry residents, and practicing psychiatrists from a broad range of subspecialties and provides mentoring opportunities, resources for well-being and career, and ideas for expanding interest groups.

Publications and Journals

APA members stay informed through clinical updates, newsletters, the latest developments in psychiatry, and much more.

  • American Journal of Psychiatry

    This is one of the most widely read psychiatric journals in the world and is the journal that most psychiatrists consider essential. Medical Student members receive free online subscriptions.

  • Psychiatric News

    Through this publication members have access to the latest research reports, up-to-the-moment news about APA, services, programs, and educational materials. Free online subscription for Medical Student members ($327 value).

  • 20% discount on over 700 books through APA Publishing

    Includes special member pricing for journals and subscriptions.

Career Development Resources

Access the tools and resources you need to thrive as you transition into your career.

  • SAMHSA Summer Medical Student Program

    SAMHSA Summer Medical Student Program

    Gives participants the opportunity to learn from world-renowned psychiatrists, receive invaluable academic resources, explore content in the award-winning APA Learning Center, and partake in the organization’s annual meeting.

  • Future Leaders in Psychiatry Program

    Future Leaders in Psychiatry Program

    Designed to increase the number of underrepresented minorities (URM) medical school applicants interested in psychiatry and create a more equitable psychiatric workforce.

  • A Roadmap to Psychiatric Residency

    A Roadmap to Psychiatric Residency

    This guide provides a global overview of the residency application process and information about subspecialty specialization.

  • APAF Helping Hands Grant

    APAF Helping Hands Grant

    Funds projects that are created and managed by medical students and can be conducted in partnership with community agencies, or in conjunction with ongoing medical school outreach activities.

  • Psychiatry Residency Training Program Vacancies

    Psychiatry Residency Training Program Vacancies

    A great resource for medical students who are looking for residency programs with openings.

Discounts and Services

APA members receive a myriad of discounts and services through our affinity partnerships.

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