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Annual Program Selection Conference
An Annual Program Selection Conference was held March 9-11,
2008, on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Washington,
D.C. All finalist applicants
will be required to attend; the program will cover travel costs
for finalists from their home institutions.
At this conference, applicants have the opportunity to
briefly meet and speak with representatives from some of the domestic
FIC programs and some of the training sites. At this
gathering, final applicants submit their preferred site
destination. Foreign training site representatives
are able to speak with each finalist and submit their preferences
for individual assignment. Each group submits their preferences
to a steering committee charged with making the final
award decisions.
New Trainee Orientation Program
New Trainee participants will be brought together for a three-week
orientation program in July in Washington, D.C., on the NIH campus, during which discussion and instruction
of the following issues, among others, will take place:
- Clinical research: methods, statistics, epidemiology and critical
thinking (via literature review, journal clubs, etc.)
- The design of clinical studies
- Bioethics: basics of bioethics, the peer review process, IRB/IEC,
FWA, privacy, special populations, and legal issues
- Economics and Research
- Publications: scientific paper writing, authorship, ethics
- International health: organizations (WHO, World Bank, NGO,
BILAT and Multilateral Governmental structures, Ministries of
Health), issues, and diseases
- Student safety and student health
- Cultural competency: foreign languages, medical anthropology,
cultural anthropology
- Collaboration among fellow students and foreign researchers
- Scientific writing
- Computer skills
- Responsibilities of a Fogarty Scholar
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