A Clinical Fellow is an NIH employee who possesses an M.D., D.D.S., or D.O. (or equivalent clinical degree) and is on a time-limited, renewable appointment. The purpose of the Clinical Fellowship is to provide junior-level physicians, surgeons or dentists experience in biomedical research relevant to the Institute or Center’s (IC) program needs. To be eligible for the Clinical Fellowship, a candidate must: 1) be a graduate of an accredited medical, dental, or osteopathic school, and 2) have satisfactorily completed a prescribed period of post-graduate training approved by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals, the American Medical Association, the American Osteopathic Association, or the American Dental Association, or have completed at least one year of residency in a program approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or another nationally recognized accreditation organization; or 3) be accepted into an ACGME- accredited NIH-sponsored graduate medical education training program. The candidate must have demonstrated outstanding scholastic achievement and the ability to conduct successfully, with minimal supervision, pre-established programs in both clinical and laboratory research.
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