Paul Calabresi Clinical Oncology Training Program

Eligibility

Clinical Scholars must have recently completed postgraduate training in medical, radiation, surgical, or gynecologic oncology or oncology nursing and must be ready for a first faculty appointment.

Basic Science Scholars will have a Ph.D. or Pharm. D., must have completed at least two years of post-doctoral experience, and must be ready to develop a clinically oriented, although laboratory focused, research program. Both Clinical and Basic Science Scholars will use the support from their award to participate in a training program to allow maturation of their knowledge base in clinical research. This will entail a didactic component leading to the Master of Science in Clinical Research, followed by development and conduct of a clinical project that could serve as a basis for future research and/or funding opportunities.

Eligibility Requirements

UMGCC Calabresi Scholars must:

be US citizens or non-citizen nationals, or must have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence and possess an Alien Registration Receipt Card (I-151 or I-155) or some other verification of legal admission as a permanent resident;
be able to commit at least 75 percent of full-time professional effort in this Program and its related clinical research activities;
not be or have been a Principal Investigator on an R01 or R21 award or on a subproject of a Program Project (P01), Center (P50, P60, U54), mentored career development (K-series) grants, or other equivalent research grant awards;
have an MD, DO, PharmD, PhD, or be an epidemiologist, behavioral scientist, or nurse with a doctoral degree, and have completed residency training (or its equivalent) and/or postdoctoral training;
be committed to a career in clinical oncology research.

This page was last updated on: July 3, 2008.