Two of our current CECPR faculty (Zack Meisel and Raina Merchant) are alumni of, and faculty members in, the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar's Program, a rigorous and prestigious health services research fellowship. Raina Merchant is an Associate Director of the program (Penn RWJ Clinical Scholar's Program), which has two emergency medicine clinical scholars. All CECPR faculty are active in mentoring RWJ Clinical Scholars.
The Department of Emergency Medicine is dedicated to training emergency physicians in all aspects of our specialty, including specialized emergency care and clinical and basic research.
The array of multidisciplinary courses and clinical settings at Penn Medicine are almost limitless, and rich with faculty committed to the educational mission and to excellence in their field.
The Department offers tailored research training to students, residents, nurses, and fellows. Over the past five years, we have designed tailored non-accredited fellowships that have successfully launched post-MD fellows into academic careers, or students into residency positions. With special arrangements and based on funding, unique fellowships have been offered in clinical medicine and in basic science research with an opportunity to enter a PhD program. Fellowships can be individualized to include training in trauma, travel medicine, clinical epidemiology, and many other areas. Topics and areas have varied depending on interest.
Every year we accept fellows to our Ultrasound and Hyperbaric Fellowship training programs. In addition, we are affiliated with the Delaware Valley Toxicology Fellowship, the CHOP Fellowship program in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program.
Established in 2001, Penn Medicine's Division of Emergency Ultrasound has been a leader in identifying and promoting the use of bedside ultrasound both diagnostically and procedurally. We have teaching and mentoring relationships with the departments of Surgery and Medicine, and provide training to the fellowship programs in Critical Care, Nephrology, Trauma, and PEM (at CHOP). Based partly on these relationships, and partly on Penn Medicine's culture of interdepartmental collegiality, much of our educational and research efforts are interdisciplinary. Past and ongoing projects include partnerships with critical care surgeons, family medicine, cardiologists, pulmonologists, anesthesiologists, and gynecologists.
Those interested in the Ultrasonography Fellowship at Penn are referred to the Penn Ultrasound Education and Innovation site.
The Penn Addiction Medicine fellowship seeks to train physicians in the highest quality provision of care to people and communities affected by substance use disorders with an emphasis on harm reduction, improved community outcomes, and health care innovation and research.
For more information please visit our addiction medicine fellowship program page.
CECPR has three different fellowship opportunities: two year fellowship in association with the MSHP program, Summer Medical Student Fellowship, and “Year-out” Medical Student Fellowship.
Two year CECPR fellowship
This fellowship is arranged on an individual basis for Emergency Physicians who have research interests related to the quality of emergency care, health policy, social media, public health, and access to care. The CECPR fellowship is a mentored research program, sponsored by the Department of Emergency Medicine in association with the Master's program in Health Policy. Fellows enter into an established two year fellowship training program at the University of Pennsylvania and benefit from structured research training in the form of coursework leading to Master of Science degree in Health Policy Research (MSHP), standing research in progress meetings, group leadership training, and an individualized career development curriculum.
Year out medical student fellowship
Offered to medical students who opt to take a year off, often in between their third and fourth years, to gain valuable experience in health services research and health policy. Fellows will work closely and support the research work of one or more CECPR Core Emergency Medicine Faculty. They will have individualized projects that may result in opportunities to submit and present at national conferences, and producing manuscripts for publication. The fellowship is a full-time position, and provides a monthly stipend for a full year from May through April.
Summermedical student fellowship
Offered to medical students with an interest in emergency care and health services research. The fellowship provides $2000 to support a student to work one on one with a CECPR faculty mentor to complete a eight to 10 week summer research project. (More Information)
For more information on applying to a CECPR Fellowship, contact Fellowship Director zfm@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
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