Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Support Center

International Clinical Research Scholars Program

Overseas Fellowships in Global Health and Clinical Research

Would you like a unique chance to experience clinical research training in a developing country? Would you like to work with a strong team of mentors and colleagues on important problems that advance people's health?

The Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Support Center at Vanderbilt University is offering a one-year clinical research training experience for graduate-level U.S. students in the health professions. This is an opportunity for highly motivated individuals to experience mentored research training at top-ranked NIH-funded research centers in developing countries. Africa, Asia, and the Americas are regions of the world that, if accepted, you may find yourself experiencing.

The Program is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center, in partnership with the NIH Office of the Director, NIH National Cancer Institute, NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH National Institute of Mental Health, NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH National Institute of Nursing Research, NIH National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

The FICRS program is designed primarily for students meeting all of the following qualifications:

• A strong interest in, and potential for, a career in international health activities and/or clinical research.

• Advanced standing in a U.S. medical, osteopathic or dental school; or enrollment in a doctoral-level program at a U.S. school of public health, optometry, nursing, pharmacy, or veterinary medicine. Other Ph.D. students in the health sciences may be eligible on a case-by-case basis. Applicants must have strong academic records and must be U.S. citizens or permanent U.S. residents. Ph.D. candidates must have completed their Master's-level coursework; all other professional doctoral degrees must have completed their basic science courses and one year of clinical clerkship prior to the start of the fellowship year.

• Support of their home academic institution, including a committed mentor.

Each Fellowship will be for a one year period. The term will begin with an intensive orientation program on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD in July. This will be followed by approximately 10+ months of intense research training at the foreign site.

Congratulations to the 2008 FICRS Award Recipients

Congratulations to the 2007 FICRS Award Recipients (PDF, 3 pages)

Congratulations to the 2006 FICRS Award Recipients

Congratulations to the 2005 FICRS Award Recipients

Congratulations to the 2004 FICRS Award Recipients

To view historical information about the Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars and Fellows programs, download the 2004-2009 FICRS Book. (PDF, 147 pages)

To learn about the Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellows (FICRF) program and read blogs written by our Scholars, please visit www.fogartyscholars.org.

This program is administered by Vanderbilt University, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the Association of Schools of Public Health.

* The term "clinical research" means patient oriented clinical research conducted with human subjects, or research on the causes and consequences of disease in human populations involving material of human origin (such as tissue specimens and cognitive phenomena) for which an investigator or colleague directly interacts with human subjects in an outpatient or inpatient setting to clarify a problem in human physiology, pathophysiology or disease, or epidemiologic or behavioral studies, outcomes research or health services research, or developing new technologies, therapeutic interventions, or clinical trials.