Your fellowship.
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Conference presentations, career tools, chapter leadership resources, and everything you need as an Aequitas Health fellow.
Built for fellows, by fellows
Career tools, project guidance, and professional development resources designed specifically for Aequitas Health fellows. No career office can replicate these — they’re built around your fellowship experience.
CV & Resume Guide
Position your Aequitas fellowship, community health project, and published work on your CV for maximum impact in residency applications.
Personal Statement Workshop
Templates and examples for weaving health equity experience into ERAS personal statements. What program directors look for.
Residency Interview Guide
How to discuss health equity work in interviews without triggering political assumptions. Frameworks for articulating patient-centered impact.
Letters of Recommendation Guide
Who to ask, when to ask, what to provide your writers, and how to make sure your Aequitas fellowship and community health work show up in every letter.
Networking in Health Equity
Build your professional network across academic medicine, community organizations, and health systems — and make the most of conference week.
Continuing Your Work in Residency
How to maintain health equity involvement during the time-constrained residency years. 30-minutes-per-week engagement strategies.
Built for fellows, by fellows
Every resource in this guide was created by Aequitas fellows and faculty advisors who tested it in the field. If something's missing, tell us — we'll build it.
Community Health Project Toolkit
Design a project that actually works — from identifying a real community need through execution, measurement, and making it last beyond your fellowship year.
Grant Writing for Medical Students
How to write competitive grant applications for community health projects. Common application components, budget templates, writing tips, and funding sources.
Journal Submission Guide
Submit your project work for publication. Covers AMA format, word count, and exactly what the editorial review process looks like from submission to acceptance.
Presenting Your Work
Turn your project into a presentation that lands — at conferences, poster sessions, and grand rounds. Abstract guide and slide templates included.
Supporting Your Faculty Advisor
How to help your advisor document their Aequitas role for promotion — includes quantification frameworks, sample promotion narrative language, and how to request an official letter of service from national.
Start a Chapter
Everything you need to launch: charter framework, election standards template, what to look for in a faculty advisor, and a step-by-step guide from first conversation to first induction.
National Aequitas Health Conference
Free. Virtual. On your schedule. Fellow presentations, distinguished speakers, and a growing library of health equity scholarship — all in one place.
Aequitas funds your work
Competitive grants support chapter projects and individual fellow initiatives. All Aequitas fellows and chapter leaders are eligible to apply.
Chapter Project of the Year — $500
Recognizes the most impactful chapter-level community health project of the academic year.
Chapter Project Grant — $500
Funds chapter-level projects demonstrating community partnership, sustainability, and measurable health impact.
Fellow Project Grant — $500
Funds individual fellow projects. Open to all fellows with an approved project plan and community partner.
Outstanding projects are also recognized as Distinguished Finalists. See all grants & award winners →
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Questions about your fellowship?
Reach out to the national office for support with resources, grants, conference submissions, or anything else.