Clinician Research Fellowships

Clinician Research Fellowships 2020

Applications Closed Monday 2 September

The Clinician Research Fellowships will allow us to attract and retain our brightest and promising clinicians and support their continuing professional development to create a strong foundation of evidence-based health care through research. Clinician researchers are well placed to identify issues and research opportunities of great relevance and need to our patients and their health care delivery and facilitate high quality research that will ultimately provide better healthcare outcomes for patients and the community.

The Metro North Office of Research will award up to 5 Fellowships annually to support clinician researchers to concurrently undertake clinical and research career pathways.

Grant Objectives

The objectives of the Fellowships are to:

support excellent research by promising clinicians who are embedded within the Hospital and Health Service.
promote enhanced opportunities for diverse career pathways for our brightest and promising clinician researchers
enhance research capacity in a supportive and appropriately supervised health service environment
promote the growth of 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, above; and
meet the definition of clinician researcher, as per the Guidelines; and
nominate at least one appropriately qualified supervisor; and
provide a proposal to develop and undertake a body of research aligned with the Metro North Research Strategy 2017-2022 to be undertaken at, or significantly associated with, Metro North HHS facilities and/or directly involve Metro North HHS patients and community; and
meet the rest of the eligibility criteria in the Guidelines

Applications are invited from clinicians across all healthcare disciplines, including allied health services, health sciences, dental, medical, and nursing and midwifery health care professionals.