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The Mentored Clinical Scientist Program in Vascular Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine is accepting applications for a July 1, 2007 start date. This three-year clinical and research training program includes a comprehensive, multidisciplinary clinical core curriculum in vascular disease, to include inpatient and outpatient evaluation and management, exposure to open surgical and endovascular management, non-invasive vascular testing, and vascular imaging. In the second year of training, a one-year research core curriculum will provide the trainee with didactic training to independently design and conduct clinical research. This experience will culminate in a Masters in Science Degree in Health Sciences Research. The third year will be devoted to presentation and publication of research, and development of a K23 proposal.
The salary stipend in each of the three years of training is $75,000. In each year, the trainee will be eligible for educational debt relief via the NIH Loan Repayment Program (www.lrp.NIH.gov) for to $35,000 per year in tax-ree educational debt repayment.
One trainee will be recruited in July 2007, two trainees will begin July 2008, and two trainees will begin July 2009. Trainees eligible for this program include all physicians with an M.D. or D.O. degree who have completed residency training. The candidates must be citizens or non-citizen nationals of the United States of America or lawfully admitted to the United States of American for permanent residence. All trainees are required to complete an application to the Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Wake Forest University Vascular Medicine Training Program. The applications must be accompanied by three letters of recommendation and a written personal statement defining the trainee’s career goals. Applications for the FUSM Vascular Medicine Mentored Clinical Scientist Training Program can be obtained from:
W Mrs. Julie T. Wonders, Administrative Assistant
To Kimberley J. Hansen, MD, Program Director
Section on Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Division of Surgical Sciences
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Medical Center Boulevard
Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1095
336-713-5256; Fax: 336-716-2934
E-mail: jwonders@wfubmc.edu