Dean’s Scholars Program: The Dean’s Scholars program provides two years of salary support to enable exceptional physician-scientists to generate preliminary data and publications to support their applications for career development awards such as K08s.
CAPSiT series: The Community of Academic Physician-Scientists in Training (CAPSiT) is a series of seminars and workshops to bring together physician-scientist trainees and support their development.
TIPS: The Interesting Patient Study (TIPS) gives clinical trainees the opportunity to study their interesting patients using genomic tools and local expertise.
Department of Medicine – Oliver Langenberg Physician Scientist Training Pathway
Department of Pathology & Immunology
Radiation Oncology (website coming soon) In this program, radiation oncology residents participate in the match, complete their short tracked clinical training upfront then transition to a fully funded post doc after residency is complete. The Department guarantees up to 3 years of post doc time 100% protected for mentored research after residency as needed to complete projects and apply for NIH K funding. Residents can perform research in any lab at Wash U.
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Mentors in Medicine: The Mentors in Medicine (MiM) program provides career development and research mentorship for the Internal Medicine Residency housestaff throughout the entire training period.
The Clinician-Scientist Training and Research Program:The Clinician-Scientist Training and Research (C–STAR) Program is a track for Barnes-Jewish Hospital medical residents who wish to pursue a career in academic medicine in clinical or translational research. Working with a mentor, the C-STAR resident takes a course and completes a research project.
Psychiatry Residency Research Education Program (PRREP): The Psychiatry Residency Research Education Program (PRREP) seeks to provide early training in research to enhance success at subsequent stages of residents’ careers. PRREP represents formalized research mentorship to those residents who want to explore research.
General surgery research education: The research opportunities during residency training in the Department of Surgery are broad and diverse. Most general surgery residents spend two to three years of dedicated research time during their residency training.
Anesthesiology WU Scholars Program includes 9 months of protected research time during residency.
Leonard B. Holman Research Pathway in Radiation Oncology allows residents to condense clinical training during residency to increase available protected time for research (18-22 months). This is a national program run by the American Board of Radiology
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Making the Right Moves: This book, co-authored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, is freely available as a PDF and is an excellent resource for those planning to start a research lab.