Clinical Training Fellowship
Definition of a Clinical Training Fellowship
The Clinical Training Fellowship was established by Diabetes UK to enable medically trained graduates to work towards a PhD or MD in diabetes research and develop a career in academic medicine.
Financial support
Support may be requested for up to three years.
Salaries
Salary for the applicant may be requested. This will be paid at registrar level or on equivalent university scales.
Materials and consumables
Requests should not exceed £10,000 per annum.
Eligibility
Applicants must hold a medical qualification that enables them to practise medicine within the UK and should not normally be more than ten years from the date of their first medical qualification. Allowance will be given to applicants whose career has been subject to a late start or interruption for family or personal reasons
Applicants must have passed the relevant exam for their specialty, eg MRCP. Candidates of any nationality may apply but must have been resident and working in the EEA (European Economic Area) for three years immediately before application and intend to pursue a medical career in the United Kingdom.
All applicants must have identified a sponsor before applying. Diabetes UK will not identify sponsors for potential applicants and will not accept applications from those without a potential sponsor.
Deadlines
The Clinical Training Fellowship is advertised in the scientific/medical press in April of each year and has an annual deadline of 31 October.
How to apply
Application forms must be requested from the Research department. At this stage applicants are asked to provide a CV with a full publication list and details of their potential sponsor.
Administrative processes
Peer review
Applications will be sent out for peer review to researchers who have not published or worked in the same institutions as any of the applicants for at least five years. Please consider this when suggesting reviewers in the application.
Shortlisting and interview
The papers will be sent to a specialist Panel who make recommendations for shortlisting based on the criteria listed below.
Candidates will be informed via email whether they have been shortlisted. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an interview at Diabetes UK. Interviews will take place in late February.
Assessment criteria
Applications are assessed on the following criteria:
- Quality of the proposal and its relevance to people with diabetes
- Track record of applicant
- Applicant’s research potential
- Quality of research environment and support.