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Program Director:
Susan
J. Mandel, M.D., M.P.H.
Fellowship
Coordinator:
Sherard
M. Graham
Mail Applications to:
University of Pennsylvania
Attn: Sherard M. Graham
415 Curie Boulevard
700 Clinical Research Bldg.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6149
Click here to apply
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The research component of the fellowship is designed
to provide trainees with an intensive introduction to the principles
and techniques of clinical or laboratory investigation. Divisional
research training grants allow our fellows to pursue this
on a full time basis and opportunities are available for
fellows both within and outside of the Division of Endocrinology
Diabetes
and Metabolism. During the first year of the fellowship, trainees
become familiar with the research interests of faculty members,
both through informal interactions and their presentations
in Research Conference. Fellows are also encouraged to meet
individually with faculty members to discuss research interests.
After deciding on a topic and preceptor, fellows prepare
a research proposal with the guidance of the preceptor. This
provides useful experience in developing an experimental plan
and preparing a grant application, and also helps to formally
define the fellow's project. Appropriate proposals are submitted
to the N.I.H. for individual National Research Service Awards
by the middle of the first year.
Fellows present their work in the Division's research seminar
and are encouraged to submit abstracts of their work for presentation
at national meetings. Research training may be supplemented
by formal graduate courses at the University. Past fellows
have taken courses in fields as diverse as Clinical Study
Design, Eukaryotic Genetics, and Biomedical Statistics.
For those specifically interested in clinical or translational research, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine offers Masters Degrees through three programs: Masters in Clinical Epidemiology (MSCE), Masters in Translational Research (MTR), and the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. Information on these and other research training options can be found at http://www.med.upenn.edu/clinrestraining/
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