RESEARCH FELLOW

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Posted: 11-May-24

Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan

Salary: Open

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Staff/Administrative

Internal Number: 248971

The Research Fellow is a position that is managed in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Michigan and supported by a T32 Surgeon Scientist Training Grant through the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). This exciting program is designed to support research education for cardiac, thoracic, or general surgery residents. The program will offer laboratory and clinical/health services research training in pediatric or cardiac surgery. Our distinguished and extramurally funded preceptors' laboratories span the full translational continuum from basic mechanistic work through preclinical and clinical/health services research. Mentored research experiences will be complemented by appropriate formal education, with trainees having the opportunity to receive a Master of Science degree in Health Services. Our proposed Core Program will provide trainees with rigorous scientific and biostatical training and expanded knowledge beyond their oftentimes narrow research focus to ensure successful academic career progression. Laboratory-based research training follows a project-oriented approach with careful mentoring by trainee preceptors. Trainees will be selected competitively by the program's Research Committee. Special emphasis will be devoted to recruitment of under-represented in medicine candidates.

This training program will be embedded within the rich research environment of the University of Michigan, including a highly collegial and interdisciplinary cardiovascular research community, excellent core resources for biomedical research, and strong resources for clinical and health services research. The latter includes a very strong School of Public Health, a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program, and the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, the largest academic health services research program in the USA. Individual mentors will be responsible for 1) guiding their trainees in generating research proposals, 2) supervising trainee work, and 3) evaluating trainee performance. Additional mentoring will be provided to each trainee by a discipline-specific committees and general oversight by the Steering Committee. Prior trainees by mentors involved in this program have been extremely successful in proceeding to productive academic careers in both basic or clinical/health services research.

The surgeon-scientist residency research fellow position means a post-graduate research residency position which:

• Shall report directly to the Surgeon Scientist Training Program Director and Associate Directors.
• Shall be a graduate of an accredited medical school and shall remain in excellent academic standing with permission from Program Director and Chairman to apply for dedicated research fellowship.
• Shall be the equivalent to a full-time position comprising of no less than forty hours per week.
• Shall be completed in 24-month time frame as structured by usual fellowship standards, starting July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2026, and so forth.
• Shall exceed the minimum standards required by a residency review committee in the specialty the research fellow has trained or is currently training.
• Shall be filled by a surgical research fellow who will receive formalized instruction in basic or outcomes research, including biostatistics, research ethics, grant writing and regulatory guidelines. 
• Shall be supervised by a sponsor-mentor who is a member of the research team with experience as Principal Investigator and who remains current with Michigan Medicine research policy and procedures.
• Shall be filled by a research fellow who is a United States citizen, national or permanent resident of the United States a graduate of medical school and currently enrolled in a surgical residency program.

Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings. Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

 

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