Overview
Goals
The General Pediatric Research Fellowship Training Program is a three-year fellowship offered by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the Department of Pediatrics of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
The goal of the program is to produce general academic pediatricians and adolescent medicine physicians who excel in primary care research and will become leaders in academic medicine.
The program will emphasize conducting independent research, mastering writing skills for grant proposals and publication, and presenting scientific data. Participants will devote 80 percent of their time to research activities; 20 percent will be devoted to clinical care and teaching.
Research
The fellow will learn the basic tools of research methodology necessary to develop an independent research career and will earn a Master of Science in Epidemiology.
Each fellow will complete two research projects during the three-year program. Typically, these projects will include an original research project and a secondary analysis of a national survey or a scholarly review.
Funds and a data analyst will be available to assist fellows with their projects. For fellows who show promise in their research endeavors, Cincinnati Children's Procter Scholarship provides additional funds to support research beyond the three-year fellowship.
Master of Science in Epidemiology
Courses for the Master's of Science Degree in Epidemiology, taught in the Division of Epidemiology and Cincinnati Children's in the School of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati, include:
Introduction to Epidemiology
Introduction to Biostatistics
Rates and Proportions
Experimental Design
Regression Analysis
Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
Ethics in Research
Writing for Grants and Publications.
Other courses are also available.
Clinical Care
The purpose of the clinical portion of the program is for fellows to enhance their ability to diagnose and manage any clinical problem. The general academic pediatrician should have the knowledge and skills to be responsible and in charge of any patient's care, even if consultation is required.
Our program's clinical experience provides opportunities for the fellow to learn more about ambulatory pediatrics or adolescent medicine, chronic illness, behavior and development, and other subspecialties.
The fellow will spend one-half day each week seeing general pediatric or adolescent patients in his or her own clinic during each year of the fellowship. Each fellow will spend one month per year attending inpatients at Cincinnati Children's.
Teaching
The fellow will assist in the teaching of medical students and residents in the pediatric primary care clinic for one-half day per week.
The fellow will also prepare his or her original research findings for national presentations and Cincinnati Children's seminars, and participate in a longitudinal faculty development course under the direction of Thomas DeWitt, M.D., director of the General and Community Pediatrics Division.
Fellows also may apply to the Physician Leadership and Management Education Program at Xavier University, a program designed to provide physicians the skills, knowledge, and perspective necessary to succeed as physician-leaders and managers.
Setting
The General Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine Research Fellowship Program is based at Cincinnati Children's, a 294-bed primary through tertiary care facility for children from birth through adolescence.
Cincinnati Children's is the major medical center for children in the greater Cincinnati metropolitan area and a principal pediatric referral center. Cincinnati Children's is consistently ranked as one of the outstanding children's hospitals in the country for both research and patient care.
Fellows will be located in the new General Pediatric Research Center. The center was designed with an office and state-of-the-art computer system for each fellow and houses faculty and fellows involved in general and community pediatric research, research assistants, and secretaries.
Applications
The fellowship is open to physicians who have completed three years of pediatric residency training. Fellows will be selected on the basis of their interest in entering academic medicine and pursuing independent research, academic and clinical performance during residency training, and perceived potential for academic leadership.
To apply to the program, please submit the following information: a one-to-two page letter describing your career interests in general academic pediatrics or adolescent medicine, a curriculum vitae, and three letters of reference from senior faculty sent directly to the program director. Submit all materials to:
Bruce P. Lanphear, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
General and Community Pediatrics
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
3333 Burnet Avenue, MLC 7035
Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039
Phone: 513-636-3778
Fax: 513-636-4402
E-mail: bruce.lanphear@cchmc.org
