International Internal Medicine Interest Group (IMIG) Sponsorship Program

• Be listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools*
• Have at least 20% of the school’s medical students enrolled as ACP Medical Student Members
• Report the total number of medical students at the school so that ACP can determine the percentage of ACP Medical Student Members
• Be located in a country that has an ACP Chapter**

* If your school holds clinical rotations in the United States, the participating IMIG must reside and hold events at the international location.

**Applications will be considered from countries without an ACP Chapter. These applicants should include a proposal for maintaining a connection to ACP in the absence of a formal relationship to an existing ACP chapter. For more information, please send an email to imig@acponline.org indicating your country and medical school.

Before the June 1 deadline, IMIG student leaders complete the online application for the 2020-2021 academic year. If your group meets the eligibility requirements and is accepted into the program, your group will receive initial funding between $80 and $160* USD and a packet of recruitment materials by early August.

Please note that there are a limited number of sponsorships available and applying does not guarantee funding.

Each IMIG has an opportunity to earn additional funding by recruiting student peers to become ACP members. The goal is to increase your school’s ACP Medical Student membership from 20% to at least 30% by January 31. The recruitment period runs from July 1, 2020 to January 31, 2021 (or January 1, 2021 to July 31, 2021 for schools on an off-cycle schedule).

ACP strongly encourages medical students to sign up for FREE ACP Student Membership via our online application.

• Groups that reach the 30% participation goal will receive $1* per ACP Medical Student Member.
• Groups that do not reach the 30% participation goal will receive $.50* per ACP Medical Student Member.
• The additional funding is calculated after the recruitment period closes on January 31 (or July 31 for off-cycle medical schools), and clubs are rewarded based on the number of students that have enrolled in ACP Medical Student Membership. Groups that reach the 30% participation goal will double their secondary funding.**
• ACP tracks all ACP Medical Student Members and will send your group periodic updates on how close you are to achieving the 30% recruitment goal.

*Funding varies per country based on World Bank economic indicators.
**The maximum funding per year varies from $400 to $800 USD.

Medical Students that sign up for free ACP Student Membership receive access to:

• Learning resources and key career decision-making tools
• Publications such as the Annals of Internal Medicine, the most widely-cited journal focused on internal medicine and its subspecialties
• CV builders, like ACP’s annual Abstracts Competitions
• Opportunities for participation and service

• 2020-2021 IMIG Sponsorship Program application (login required)
• Online Medical Student Membership application

• I.M. Proud - Leading an ACP Internal Medicine Interest Group
• Identifying the Leader Within
• A Successful & Thriving IMIG: How do we get there?
• IMIG Leader Orientation webinar

• Pre-packaged activities
• Internal Medicine Interest Group Resource Guide
• Council of Student Members
• ACP local chapters

Please contact us at imig@acponline.org to add it to our list of schools.

We strongly recommend that medical students apply for ACP Student Membership online.

The application for Medical Student Membership requires students to provide the name of their medical school. ACP tracks all ACP Medical Student Members from each school and sends clubs monthly updates on their progress toward achieving the 30% recruitment goal.

ACP uses enrollment data obtained from the World Directory of Medical Schools. If an enrollment number is not listed or is out of date, you are required to send us the total enrollment from your faculty advisor.