The APA is here to support YOUR career.
Membership in the APA gives you access to numerous opportunities that will take your career to the next level including:
- Leadership
- Mentorship
- Networking
- Participation in national research studies
- Professional development at national and regional meetings
- Research funding
- Resources including Academic Pediatrics
- Scholarship and faculty development
Membership Benefits
Opportunities are wide-spread and available for you regardless of where you are in your career. Join today to take your career to the next level and advance child health! Learn more about APA’s comprehensive membership benefits.
APA Membership Categories and Rates
*APA's membership cycle coincides with the calendar year. Individuals who join the Association within the last quarter of the year will not be billed for dues in the New Year. This only applies to new members.
Individual Memberships
- Trainee Membership - $50 annually (or 3 years for $150)
- Undergraduates, Residents, and Fellows qualifies for our Trainee Membership
- Gets access to the e-journal
- 1st Year Post Trainee Membership - $250 annually
- Anyone their first year immediately following training qualifies for the 1st Year Post Trainee Membership
- Gets access to the e-journal
- Non-Physician Membership - $250 annually (or 3 years for $750)
- Allied health professionals (for example nurses, nurse practitioners, or physician assistants) qualifies for the Non-Physician Membership
- Gets access to the e-journal
- Physician Membership - $425 annually (or 3 years for $1,275)
- Any physician, 2 or more years post-training, qualifies for the Physician Membership
- Gets access to the e-journal
- Emeritus Member - $230 annually
- An individual who has been a member of the Association for ten or more years and who is retired from gainful employment may apply to the APA for Emeritus Membership
- Emeritus Members have full membership privileges
Residency Program Group Memberships - Please contact the APA for an invoice.
- 20 or less Residents - $35 per resident
- 21-40 Residents - $750 flat rate
- 41-60 Residents - $1000 flat rate
- 61-80 Residents - $1500 flat rate
- 81-100 Residents - $2000 flat rate
- 101-139 Residents - $2500 flat rate
- 140 or more Residents - $4000 flat rate
Start advancing your career by taking advantage of the numerous invaluable membership benefits the APA offers.
Honoring Our Emeritus Members
APA deeply appreciates the time, commitment and dedication our emeritus members have demonstrated over their careers to the organization. As a token of our appreciation, the APA will highlight new emeritus members' accomplishments on the APA blog. If you'd like to highlight an emeritus member or your career on the APA blog upon becoming an emeritus member, please submit the information here, Highlight an emeritus member!
