{"id":599,"date":"2019-08-15T09:54:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T14:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/psychiatry\/?p=599"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:50:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:50:27","slug":"fourth-year-medical-student-earns-scholarship-to-attend-major-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/psychiatry\/2019\/08\/15\/fourth-year-medical-student-earns-scholarship-to-attend-major-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth-year medical student earns scholarship to attend major conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"panel intruder-image\">\n\t<div class=\"panel__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"feature__media feature__media--full\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"feature__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2019\/08\/Thai.Eating-Disorders-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Thai and Dr. Daniel Gih\"\/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"feature__caption feature__caption--line\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>In 2018, UNMC medical student Jessica Thai presented a poster with UNMC psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Gih at the International Conference on Eating Disorders. Thai has attended several conferences during medical school and will attend the IPS: Mental Health Services Conference in October after receiving a travel scholarship from the APA.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n\n\n<p>UNMC fourth-year medical student Jessica Thai has made a point to attend as many national conferences as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has presented research and will appear on panels and help lead discussions at upcoming conferences this year. Even at past conferences, attended solely as an attendee, she found that the mentorship and networking opportunities were well worth the time and effort spent applying for competitive travel scholarships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been able to meet so many people and meet some great mentors,\u201d she said. \u201cThese mentors can help you in several ways, including advice on different residency programs and career paths or collaborating on research or a presentation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to a travel scholarship from the American Psychiatry Association, Thai will be attending the IPS: Mental Health Services Conference from Oct. 3-6 in New York City. Thai said she applied for the travel scholarship because hotel costs can exceed $300 a night. She also plans to attend another conference (Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) in downtown Chicago a week later and the American Psychiatry Association\u2019s Annual Meeting in Philadelphia in late April, where she will help run the corresponding PsychSIGN national psychiatry student interest group meeting as a PsychSIGN board member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was thrilled to receive the scholarship because there\u2019s no way I could attend IPS without it,\u201d Thai said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AACAP meeting in Chicago is also important for Thai as she considers a future as a child and adolescent psychiatrist. This will be her third time attending AACAP since medical school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDr. (Daniel) Gih and Dr. (Howard) Liu, both child psychiatrists, have been huge mentors to me and are two big reasons I\u2019m going into psychiatry,\u201d Thai said. \u201cFrom the first time I met them at the psychiatry mentoring night at Joslyn Castle as an M1, I\u2019ve been interested in psychiatry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with child and adolescent psychiatry, Thai also has interests in eating disorders and has presented research performed under the guidance of Dr. Gih at AACAP and the International Conference of Eating Disorders. Although, she remains open to any field in psychiatry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI like that in psychiatry you get to learn so much about a patient. There\u2019s time to learn their story,\u201d she said. \u201cIn other fields, you don\u2019t learn as much or spend as much time with your patients. 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