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Scholarships

Support Your Next Step

Explore opportunities to advance your clinical education, develop your research career, and share pelvic health expertise. Browse education and course opportunities below, followed by research scholarships, grants, and conference funding. Each program has its own eligibility requirements and application process.

Education & Course Opportunities

Support your pelvic health education through course scholarships or bring Academy courses to your facility through hosting benefits.

Course scholarship • Academy members

CAPP Webinar Course Scholarships

Build your skills with complimentary registration for one CAPP webinar taking place within the same calendar year. This opportunity is exclusively for current APTA Pelvic Health members.

Who can apply
Current APTA Pelvic Health members
Annual awards
12 scholarships across four categories
Application deadlines
March 15, July 15, and September 15
Award notices
Within 30–40 days after each application deadline

Four categories. Three application cycles. One scholarship per category is awarded at each deadline, for three awards per category annually:

  • Rural PT/PTA
  • Student
  • PT/PTA
  • Early Professional: members within 0–5 years of physical therapy practice
Course scholarship • NABPT members

NABPT CAPP Course Scholarship

The National Association of Black Physical Therapists (NABPT) and APTA Pelvic Health have partnered to help NABPT members expand their clinical skills and integrate pelvic health into their rehabilitation practice.

Who can apply
Physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, and student physical therapists who are NABPT members
Program administration
Overseen and facilitated by NABPT
Scholarship sponsor
Academy of Pelvic Health Physical Therapy

Explore the scholarship cycle for application details and program requirements.

Hosting benefit • Not a scholarship

Host a Course. Help Your Team Grow.

Bring Academy instructors to your university, hospital, or private clinic to support the development or expansion of your pelvic health program.

Host facilities receive 1–2 complimentary registrations in the hosted course. The facility may assign this benefit to a resident, PT/PTA staff member, or second- or third-year physical therapy student.

The Academy handles registration, marketing, customer service, learning management software fees, course materials, and reimbursement for dispensable supplies. Expert instructors travel to your facility to deliver the course.

Explore Course Hosting

Research Scholarships, Grants & Conference Funding

Opportunities to support research doctoral studies, fund research projects, and share your findings and expertise at professional conferences. These programs do not provide CAPP course scholarships.

Featured opportunity • CSM 2027

CSM Early-Career Researcher Scholarship

Presenting an accepted research abstract at APTA Combined Sections Meeting (CSM) 2027? Eligible early-career investigators who are Academy members can apply for funding to help offset conference attendance and presentation costs.

This is not a course scholarship.
This award supports attending and presenting research at CSM; it does not provide complimentary CAPP course registration.

Review Eligibility & Apply
$1,000

per scholarship • Up to 4 recipients

Application deadline
November 15, 2026

For eligible Academy members
Presenting an accepted poster or platform at CSM 2027 in Philadelphia, PA

Payment is issued after CSM and completion of all required recipient deliverables.

Research doctoral scholarship

PODS I Scholarship

$7,500 For the pre-candidacy phase of research doctoral studies

The Foundation for Physical Therapy Research’s Promotion of Doctoral Studies (PODS I) Scholarship supports the coursework phase of academic research doctoral studies before candidacy.

Who can apply
Licensed PTs and PTAs who are APTA members pursuing an academic doctoral degree with the intent to pursue a career in physical therapy-related research
Program administration
Foundation for Physical Therapy Research. The Academy sponsors the $7,500 PODS I Scholarship during years it does not award a $40,000 pelvic health research grant.
Application details
Visit the Foundation’s website for current deadlines, eligibility criteria, and application requirements.
Research grant • Foundation funding

$40,000 Physical Therapy Research Grants

$40,000 Per research grant

Advance the evidence that informs physical therapy practice. The Foundation for Physical Therapy Research offers grants supporting research across physical therapy and designated specialty areas.

Who can apply
U.S.-licensed PTs and PTAs who are APTA members, subject to each grant’s eligibility requirements
Program administration
Foundation for Physical Therapy Research. The Academy sponsors the $40,000 pelvic health research grant that is awarded every 3 years.
Application status
Visit the Foundation’s website for future funding cycles and grant announcements.
Conference travel grant

Cross-Disciplinary Travel Grant Program

Share pelvic health expertise with a broader healthcare audience. This program offers financial assistance to Academy members accepted to present at interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary conferences.

The program helps increase awareness of pelvic and abdominal health physical therapy, demonstrate the value of the specialty, and encourage collaboration with other healthcare disciplines.

Award Amounts
During each award cycle, up to $2,500 in award funding will be awarded either in full to the top applicant or divided among top-ranked, selected recipients.
Deadlines
January 1, 2027 and July 1, 2027
Who can apply
Academy members accepted to present at interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary conferences
Purpose
Support conference presentations that expand awareness of pelvic and abdominal health physical therapy
Explore the Travel Grant