Program Overview

The Clinical Research Fellowship Program for medical students at Johns Hopkins is a Program designated to allow medical students who are interested in clinical research to take a year off from their formal medical school experience to conduct clinical research in a highly academic medical center. Opportunities are available in almost every Department and Institute at Johns Hopkins Medicine. The students will be required to attend some formal coursework and other regularly scheduled conferences. Importantly the students will work closely with a dedicated mentor and will also meet regularly with the Program Leaders.

The Program is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation through a Clinical Research Fellowship for medical students. Johns Hopkins is one of a dozen medical schools nationwide who have successfully competed for this program.

Program Leaders:

Vered Stearns, MD
Associate Professor of Oncology
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA
Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Policy and Management
Director, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Program Highlights:

• The program allows each fellow a stipend of $27,000 for the year.
• It is expected that about 5 students will enroll each year.
• Students from any United States medical school can apply and are strongly encouraged to consider this program.
• Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Health care costs, disability and life insurance will be covered as will travel expenses to a scientific meeting and to the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation annual meeting.
• Students who are not from Johns Hopkins and have to relocate to enroll in the program can be provided with relocation assistance.
• During the year, it is expected that the student will spend 75% of the time conducting clinical research, the rest of the time will be dedicated to coursework, conferences, and if appropriate half a day of clinic under the direction of the mentor if the clinic is closely associated with the ongoing research.