Clinician Research Fellowships

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The Program awards up to five Fellowship awards annually, specifically designed to allow Metro North’s emerging and highly skilled clinician researchers to develop and advance a body of research aligned to the Research Strategy to create a strong foundation of evidence-based healthcare.

The Fellowship funding provides three years of clinical backfill to allow recipients to enhance their research capacity. It’s an opportunity for Metro North’s brightest and most promising clinicians to delve deeper into their work and research.

Fellowship Guidelines 2024

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Grant Objectives

The objectives of the Fellowships are to:

support excellent basic and applied research by promising clinician researchers who are embedded within the Hospital and Health Service.
promote enhanced opportunities for diverse career pathways by attracting and retaining our brightest and promising clinician researchers
expand clinician-research capacity in a supportive and appropriately supervised research enabling hospital and health service environment
enable capacity building and clinician-researcher mentoring, leadership and supervision capabilities

Key eligibility requirements

for the duration of the Fellowship be employed with Metro North, appointed to a minimum of 0.2FTE clinician duties
meet the definition of clinician researcher, as per the Guidelines
nominate at least one appropriately qualified supervisor
provide a proposal to develop and undertake a body of research aligned with the Metro North Research Strategy 2023-2027 to be undertaken at, or significantly associated with, Metro North Health facilities and/or directly involve Metro North Health patients and community
meet the rest of the eligibility criteria in the Guidelines