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QUICK REVIEW GUIDE Individual Biomedical Informatics Fellowship (F37) |
PURPOSE: Individual biomedical informatics fellowships provide support for the training of informatics scientists able to perform research into basic informatics problems or to application of informatics to any area of biomedicine, including clinical medicine, basic biomedical research, clinical and health services research, public health, professional education, and administration. Post-doctoral, pre-doctoral and, in certain specified fields, some post-baccalaureate candidates are eligible. This fellowship is suitable for training in informatics specializations ranging from clinical informatics to the informatics of molecular biology and other large research datasets. Applications that focus on building new skills or extending the applicant's existing expertise are particularly desirable. This fellowship may lead to a degree, although it is not a requirement. Upon completion of training, fellows should be able to conduct basic or applied research at the intersection of biology and medicine with computer and cognitive sciences, and are expected to be familiar with the use and potential of modern information technology. Fellows in informatics will achieve this goal through an individually-tailored program of formal coursework and research experience, culminating in a project. The program of coursework should develop or augment the trainee's basic competency in each of these areas: computer science, information science, cognitive science, and knowledge of one or more domains of Biomedicine. The fellowship must provide hands-on experience obtained via a defined project related to one or more of the NLM program areas. Projects may be in basic informatics research areas or address an informatics application. An applied informatics project does not require the form or concepts of a research project, and need not be hypothesis-driven, but the proposal should provide sufficient detail to permit reviewers to judge importance of the problem, feasibility of the approach, and the post-training utility of the informatics techniques required. Each fellow must have a mentor who provides guidance and oversight for the training program. The mentor should be expert in an area of informatics or information science that is pertinent to the proposed program, and should be an active investigator in the area of the proposed research. The mentor may be at the applicant's home institution or at another institution. If the latter, the plan for supervision and interaction must be described. MECHANISM OF SUPPORT: This program announcement for Individual Biomedical Informatics Fellowships uses the F37 funding mechanism. Training awards provide stipends to fellows as a subsistence allowance to help defray living expenses during the research training experience. The project period may be for up to three years, and awards are not renewable. Current stipend levels are available at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/stipend.html. ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS: Only domestic non-Federal organizations, public or private, such as Medical, Dental or Nursing schools or other institutions of higher education, may accept an award on behalf of an applicant. Before submitting a fellowship application, the applicant must identify a sponsoring institution and an individual who will serve as a sponsor (also called mentor or supervisor) and will supervise the training and research experience.
The usual NIH criteria apply: significance; approach; innovation; investigator; environment. In addition, reviewers will consider the following:
Applied fellowship applications will be judged as such and not as research training applications. Applications with an applied rather than research focus must include:
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Last reviewed: 25 February 2008
Last updated: 25 February 2008
First published: 20 November 2003
Metadata| Permanence level: Permanence Not Guaranteed