Canadian Organization of Undergraduate Psychiatric Educators Best Paper Award by a Medical Student


Purpose:

  • The COUPE Best Paper Award by a Medical Student is designed to recognize a student in undergraduate medical training who demonstrates an enhanced level of understanding and interest in a topic related to mental health.
  • Furthermore, this prize is intended to acknowledge a student who takes the time and effort to investigate a specific issue relevant to mental health, either within psychiatry or another area of medicine.
  • Finally, this prize is intended to reward a student who best demonstrates an advanced level of scholarship within their program of study/in undergraduate medical education.

Eligibility

  • All full-time undergraduate students enrolled in the Doctor of Medicine (M.D. or M.D./C.M.) Program at any of the 17 medical schools across Canada.
  • The author of the paper should be an individual student, not a group.
  • Submissions cannot have been previously published or be currently under
    consideration for publication.

For more information

Email Parisa Abdi Sabouhi, Undergraduate Education Coordinator, at Psych.Undergrad@dal.ca for more details if interested.