Doctoral and Advanced Fellowship Development Programme
We will support you in gaining clinical fellowships at pre-doctoral and post-doctoral levels.
All our integrated academic trainees are encouraged to examine the broad spectrum of externally funded clinical funded fellowships available to doctors, dentists, nurses, midwives and all other allied health care professionals.
Newcastle University’s Faculty of Medical Sciences has an enviable success rate in externally funded clinical fellowships both at the pre-doctoral and post-doctoral levels.
EXCITE: External Clinical fellowshIps support programme
The EXternal Clinical fellowshIps supporT programmE (EXCITE) aims to help promising and talented clinical researchers to make the leap from the beginnings of examining an early stage idea to funded fellows either at the pre or post-doctoral stage. EXCITE offers a comprehensive programme of support up to, and following, a fellowship award including:
- peer led mentoring from previously successful applicants
- senior academic mentoring of applications
- bite-size seminars on subjects relevant to your funding application
- internal peer review of applications
- opportunities to engage with the public and patients in order to inform your ideas and disseminate
- mock interview panels and video feedback
- debriefs on successful and unsuccessful applications
- ring-fenced pump-priming funds for predoctoral applications for doctoral fellowships
EXCITE is for all academic, or aspiring academic, health care professionals and is not limited to any profession or particular job title, but is of particular relevance to those in academic foundation, academic clinical fellow (NIHR ACF), and NIHR Clinical Lectureship posts (NIHR ACL).
