March 13, 2024

SMA Announces Call for Abstracts for Its 2nd Annual Virtual Abstract Competition

SMA is now accepting abstracts for its 2nd Annual Virtual Abstract Competition being held August 7-9, 2024. This preliminary competition is open to medical students, residents, and fellows who will compete for a chance to present their projects at SMA’s Annual Scientific Assembly.

September 1, 2023

SMA Announces Call for Abstracts for Its 2024 Physicians-in-Training Leadership Conference

SMA is currently accepting abstracts for its 4th Annual Physicians-In-Training Leadership Conference taking place February 16-18, 2024, at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee.

August 15, 2023

SMA Virtual Abstract Competition Top 20

Congratulations to the Top 20 Winners of SMA’s Virtual Abstract Competition that took place August 8-9, 2023!  With more than 85 oral and poster abstracts presented during the two-day virtual event, physicians-in-training from more than 30 medical schools and residency programs had the opportunity to share their research and interact...

June 2, 2023

2023 Scholarship Season is Here

SMA’s scholarship submission season is currently open. SMA has awarded over $1.5 million to rising 4th-year medical students and we invite you to apply! For complete information and requirements, click the button below! APPLY OR GET MORE INFO!

December 12, 2022

on Mentoring: Mary Thomas

DR MARY L. THOMAS and DR. CHRISTOPHER JACKSON Dr. Jackson and Dr. Thomas started their mentoring relationship in 2020 while Dr. Thomas was a 2nd year resident at UTHSC Internal Medicine.  Unlike many of either of their previous mentoring arrangements, they quickly determined that addressing impostorism, sponsorship, and clinician educator...

December 10, 2022

SMA Increases Support for ASA and PIT Leadership Conferences

With a mission to “Improve quality of patient care through multidisciplinary, interprofessional education”, the Southern Medical Association has always believed in fostering the professional development and growth of its young physicians and physicians in training. During her 2021-2022 term as SMA President, Dr. Donna Breen set forth an initiative to...

June 2, 2022

on Mentoring: Mentoring in the time of COVID

---- Thomas J. Nuckton, MD, MS ---Tom is a pulmonary/critical care physician practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area. A California native, he completed med/peds residency training at Tulane, in New Orleans, LA, and returned to California for fellowship training at UCSF, in San Francisco, CA.---   To be honest,...

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April 7, 2022

Simple Ways to Teach Your Child About Self-Care

By Janice Russell Kids were dealing with isolation, cyberbullying, and other issues before the pandemic. But the restrictions and fear of a global health crisis made such issues even more prevalent among kids of all ages. Among other factors, limited in-person interactions, mask-wearing, and an increased reliance on virtual environments...

April 6, 2022

Abstracts from the 2nd Annual Physicians-in-Training Leadership Conference are now available!

Session 3 – Top 5 Oral and Top 5 Poster Abstracts Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Seeding Metastatic Aerodigestive Cancer: A Fatal Complication of a Common Procedure, Joshua Berko, BS ​​Efficacy of Infection Control Measures and Temperature Measurement in Controlling Spread of COVID-19 in School-Aged Children, Courtney Rich, MB, BCh, BAO, MPH...

April 4, 2022

On Mentoring: Sangeetha Isaac

By Sangeetha Isaac, MD Sangeetha is a second year Internal Medicine Resident at North Alabama Medical Center, Florence, Alabama. My First Mentor July 2011, India. I went to the Department of Medical Oncology looking for my professor. Through the door I could see him, seated at his desk, reading something...

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