Why Trainees Join APS

Trainee membership benefits include:

Expand Your Network and Grow Your Career

• Participate in APS discipline-specific sections and interest groups.
• Represent trainees within the Society and discipline on the Trainee Advisory Committee.
• Network and collaborate with colleagues and mentors in your field at APS meetings and events.
  
• Find your next job opportunity on our members-only jobs board.
• Make connections with our member directory and stay in the know with section- and trainee-specific online info Hubs.
• Attend Professional Skills Training courses on a variety of career development topics such as Writing and Reviewing for Scientific Journals.
• Expand your science communication skills by writing for one of the APS blogs.
• Access the APS Career Gateway – a comprehensive career development resource featuring core content areas that highlight funding, communicating your science, teaching strategies and designing a career pathway.
  

Access Career and Learning Resources

• Get a jump start on your future by using career planning resources in the APS’ digital library. Select topics include:
  • choosing between graduate school and medical school;
  • finding and applying for grant funding; and
  • professional skills: advice, tips and ideas.
• Attend our virtual event series and access expanded live and on-demand online learning resources.

Apply for Awards and Fellowships

• APS offers numerous postdoctoral and early career awards that recognize excellence in physiology research, support professional development and promote diversity in physiology. Apply for up to $800,000 in Society awards, including:
• Abstract and Travel Awards, and
• Section-based New Investigator Awards.

Attend the Trainee Symposium

• The APS Trainee Symposium is organized annually by the Trainee Advisory Committee. Topics cover issues relevant to today’s researchers, educators and trainees at all stages of their career.

Access Groundbreaking Research and Authorship Opportunities

• Read 16 original research and review journals and APS Journals Legacy Content online.
• Read Physiology and The Physiologist Magazine, our member-centered publication focused on physiologists and the many ways they are advancing the discipline and attending to the business of science, at home (print subscription).
• Get discounted article processing fees for first or last authors.
• Access the APS Monograph book series free online.
  
• Receive a discount on publishing your article through APS Open Access as well as on the Spotlight Cover Program.