Benjamin H. Kean Traveling Fellowship in Tropical Medicine
Next application period deadline: March 2010
Burroughs Wellcome Fund/ASTMH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Tropical Infectious Diseases
Next application period deadline: Fall 2010
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Robert E. Shope International Fellowship in Infectious Diseases
Next application period deadline: May 2010
Gorgas Memorial Institute Research Award
Next application period deadline: Summer 2010
Pfizer Centennial Travel Award in Basic Science Tropical Disease Research
Next application period deadline: June 2010

Updated: July 2009

The Baltimore Albert Schweitzer Fellows Program is a yearlong fellowship program open to all Baltimore are students enrolled in a degree program in health and human-service fields including schools of medicine, nursing, public health, dentistry, pharmacy, social work, and law as well as such disciplines in health care administration and counseling psychology.

Fellows have worked to provide services ranging from developing college preparation and application programs for high school students, creating a computer center for the Hispanic population to learn how to use computers as well as English as a second language as well as legal service workshops on housing, employment, domestic violence, and benefits. In addition fellows have developed partnership programs with pregnant teens and HIV positive children and adolescents and currently are developing a free primary care clinic in East Baltimore.

Questions about this program can be directed to:

Eligibility: Current third and fourth year medical students interested in applying for next year’s class (September)

A new one year fellowship in applied epidemiology for third or fourth year medical students sponsored by Pfizer Foundation and Pfizer Inc., is available through the CDC Foundation. Eight competitively selected medical students will come to CDC for a 10-12 month fellowship in applied epidemiology. Students will participate in day-to-day applied epidemiology activities, including field work and possibly outbreak investigations, in programs around CDC, with an emphasis on non-infectious disease assignments. Topics that will be covered in a series of didactic training and seminars include epidemiologic methods, biostatistics, policy development, and the impact of population health on clinical practice.

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The Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship (CRF) provides support for one year of full-time clinical research training. The main goal of the program is to encourage medical students to pursue careers in clinical research. Interested medical students must be willing to take a year out from school and conduct fellowship research and training at one of 12 hosting medical schools (see website for 12 schools).

Application information:

Questions should be directed to: ddcfcrf@aibs.org

A one year fellowship that give highly motivated students experience in clinical research training in a developing country. Fellowship sites for this program can be found on the right-hand side of the page following the link above.

Application information:

This program provides intensive learning experiences that will prepare students interested in clinical research careers.

Accepted students will be exposed to structured curricula in study design, epidemiology, and biostatistics through a Master’s degree in Public Health (MPH quantitative track, 80 credits) or a Master of Health Sciences in Clinical Epidemiology (64 credits) at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Training will include:

• Articulating an appropriate question/hypothesis
• Identifying an appropriate study design and data set for answering the question
• Obtaining IRB approval
• Gaining familiarity with aspects of data management
• Identifying and applying appropriate statistical methods and correctly interpreting results
• Gaining familiarity with tracking and recording steps in the analysis of a data set
• Writing up the results of a data analysis for a professional publication
• Oral presentation of the results

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The National Health Service Corps is a branch of the US Public Health Service charged with the responsibility for alleviating the geographic maldistribution of physicians in the United States. Scholarship recipient’s service commitmentwill be fulfilled as a non-Federal employee, as a commissionedofficer of the Regular or Reserve Corps ofthe U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), or as a civilianemployee of the U.S. Government.

The scholarship consists of payment for tuition,fees, other reasonable educational costs, and amonthly support stipend. In return, the students agreeto provide 1 year of service in the HPSA of greatestneed to which they are assigned for each school yearor partial school year of scholarship support received,with a minimum 2-year service commitment, maximum 4-year commitment.

The Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP) for Medical and Dental Students is a 12-month program designed to attract the most creative, research-oriented medical and dental students to the intramural campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. Participants, known as Fellows, spend a year engaged in a mentored clinical or translational research project in an area that matches their personal interests and goals.

Please visit the website for application deadline information.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) offers a variety of short-term clinical rotations and research elective opportunities, as well as specialized “year out” programs designed to provide advanced training in basic science, translational research, or clinical research, to highly qualified medical and dental students.

The Sarnoff Fellowship Program offers medical students enrolled in accredited U.S. medical schools the opportunity to spend a year conducting intensive work in a biomedical research laboratory in the United States, other than the medical school in which they are enrolled. Applications are encouraged from second and third year medical students. Fourth year medical students are required to submit an official letter from their medical schools granting graduation deferment. Please note, applicants enrolled in an MD/PhD program will not be eligible for a Sarnoff Fellowship.

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