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HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS (MEDICAL FELLOWS PROGRAM)
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Applicants must be currently enrolled in a medical or dental school program in the United States . Students may apply during any year of their medical or dental studies. These fellowships are not available to students enrolled in M.D./Ph.D., Ph.D., or Sc.D. programs or to those who have completed a Ph.D. or an Sc.D. in a laboratory-based science. Applicants may have research experience, but it is not required. There are no citizenship requirements for application, but those who are not U.S. citizens must have and maintain an appropriate visa. |
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One year of full-time research training in fundamental biomedical research. Fellowship research must be conducted at an academic or nonprofit research institution in the United States, excluding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. |
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60 fellowships to medical and dental students who show the greatest promise for future achievement in biomedical research and who have demonstrated superior scholarship as undergraduates and during their initial medical or dental school training. The stipend was $25,000 for the 2006–2007 fellowship year. Fellowship institutions receive an annual research allowance of $5,500 on behalf of each fellow. The allowance may be used for supplies and equipment for the fellow’s research, a computer and computer-related expenses, travel to professional meetings, journal subscriptions, and similar research-related expenses. Disposition of the allowance will be at the discretion of the fellow’s mentor. HHMI also provides fellowship institutions with an annual fellow’s allowance of $5,500 on behalf of each fellow. The first priority for use of this allowance is health insurance for the fellow. The award includes tuition and fees.
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N/A. This program is for students who have already graduated and begun their studies in medical school. |
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Application is via HHMI’s Web-based competition system at www.hhmi.org/competitions. Submission of all applicant, mentor, dean, and reference forms must be via the Web. A complete application has three sections. Section 1: The applicant’s portion, which includes basic information and a Personal Statement (should not exceed 700 words, or approximately one single-spaced page) the Research Plan Title (should not exceed 255 characters, including spaces) a Research Plan Summary (should not exceed 250 words, or approximately one-third of a single-spaced page) the Research Plan (should not exceed 2,100 words, or approximately three single-spaced pages) and Research Plan Citations (should not exceed 700 words, or approximately one single-spaced page); Section 2: The mentor’s endorsement, which includes information on the mentor’s plans for training the applicant, training experience, grant support, a brief curriculum vitae, and an evaluation of the applicant and Section 3: Letters of reference and the Dean’s endorsement. |
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Last year, the application deadline was January 11, 2006, and the announcement of awards took place in March 2006 .
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Through its Graduate Science Education and Medical Research Training Program, HHMI seeks to expand the nation's pool of medically trained researchers; promote interdisciplinary, graduate-level research training; and integrate medicine into biomedical research training. The program also seeks to provide graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and newly independent scientists with courses and other resources that will help them succeed in their research careers. The Research Training Fellowships for Medical Students (Medical Fellows Program) give medical and dental students support for a year of full-time biomedical research training at an academic or nonprofit research institution in the United States or abroad if the mentor is affiliated with a U.S. institution. Fellowships are awarded through an annual competition.
Fellowship research should probe basic biological processes or disease mechanisms. Examples of eligible fields of research include the following: Biochemistry Bioinformatics, Biomedical engineering Biophysics Biostatistics Cell biology Developmental biology Epidemiology, Genetics Immunology Mathematical and computational biology Microbiology Molecular biology Neuroscience Pharmacology Physiology Structural biology Virology.
The applicant is responsible for selecting a research mentor at an academic or nonprofit research institution in the United States and for making arrangements to work in that person’s laboratory. The research plan should be suitable for a one-year research-training period. The project should ask a specific and substantive question about basic biological processes or disease mechanisms.
Fellowships are awarded on the basis of the applicant’s ability and promise for a research career as a physician-scientist and the quality of the training that will be provided. The applicant’s ability and promise are assessed in terms of items such as the proposed research plan, letters of reference, undergraduate and medical or dental school transcripts, and scores on the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) or Dental Admission Test (DAT), if available. Applications will be reviewed by a panel of distinguished biomedical scientists with expertise in the eligible fields of research.
Further information is available at http://www.hhmi.org .
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