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 Your Research Plan may be the most important part of your fellowship application. Your plan must communicate:
- Clarity, completeness, and coherence.
- Originality, significance, and practicality of goals.
- A clear description of the research skills and knowledge you want to acquire, and your plan's potential for meeting these objectives.
- Potential of training to serve as a foundation for your health sciences career (for predoctoral investigators) or to advance your career as an independent researcher (for postdoctoral investigators).
- Plans to include a diverse human subjects population
including women and minorities.
- Plans to include animals as
test subjects, if applicable.
- Plans to obtain training in ethical research conduct.
Review Your Plan
Ask your sponsor to review your Research Plan for thoroughness, consistency, and effective presentation of valid and original goals. Make sure you've included required elements like training in ethical research conduct.
The worst thing peer reviewers can say about your application is: "I can't believe that the investigator's mentor read this." Reviewers will forgive minor omissions but not major ones. Even too many minor omissions will add up and hurt your priority score.
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