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For Pre-med or medical students

© Shauna Zamarripa

Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) is the discipline concerned with the health and function of people at their places of work, and the impact of industrial activities and products on the health of workers, consumers and the public. Today, organizations of every kind rely on corporate medical departments as well as on outside OEM consulting practices to ensure their operations and products pose no unacceptable risks to human health or to the environment.

The Occupational Physicians Scholarship Fund (OPSF) provides stipends to worthy physicians to cover their OEM residency positions. And it has fostered the growth of a talented leadership cadre in occupational and environmental medicine whose skills achievements and level of commitment is moving the entire field forward. Having funded over 120 scholarships over the past decade, OPSF has allowed 28 residency programs around the country to sustain or expand specialty training.

The OPSF presence on the World Wide Web gives potential scholarship applicants and other interested individuals access to the goals of the Fund as well as to information for seeking scholarship funding. Questions or comments about the Fund or this Site may be forwarded to OPSF via email at Info@opsf.org, by calling our Schiller Park, Illinois office at (847) 671-1926, or by writing to OPSF, 9950 W. Lawrence Ave, Suite 106A, Schiller Park, IL 60176.

The Occupational Physicians Scholarship Fund has been established to help alleviate the shortage of properly trained and skilled occupational physicians. OPSF will assist qualified individuals, capable of making a significant contribution in this field, to pursue a well-rounded residency education in occupational medicine. It is the goal of OPSF to provide financial support to residents in occupational medicine, in order that they become certified specialists able to practice in a broad range of settings. Applicants to any occupational medicine residency training program approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) are eligible to apply for scholarship funding. Applicants are required to submit to OPSF the following:  - A completed OPSF application  - All undergraduate college transcripts  - Records of previous medical and post-medical school performance  - Copies of any publications which the applicant has authored  - Three letters of recommendation, including letters from the directors of any previous training programs  - A letter of support from the applicant's current program director, if accepted in an occupational medicine program  - To download the complete OPSF guideline paper which details the application

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