The Durham VA Medical Center and Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) has been training physicians for academic careers in General Internal Medicine through their well-established residency and fellowship programs in ambulatory care since 1976. It has been actively engaged in primary care education and health services research related to women?s health since 1993.

The Women Veterans Comprehensive Health Center was established in 1994. Affiliated with the Duke University School of Medicine, the clinical Center affords a unique opportunity to support a substantial research agenda devoted to women?s health issues. Center staff includes gynecologists, internists, surgical oncologists, and psychiatrist, all dedicated to research in women?s health.

The Center?s program offers a two-year fellowship that?s funded by the VA Office of Academic Affairs. The goal of the fellowship is to train academic women?s health researchers with an emphasis on health services and clinical research, to expose them to a multidisciplinary women?s health care practice setting, and train them in administrative and research skills necessary to become productive academicians in health issues of women.

Applicants must be board eligible or certified in Internal Medicine (preferably General Internal Medicine), Gynecology, or Psychiatry. Applicants should have acquired sound clinical training and express a commitment to academic careers with emphasis on women?s health issues. Preference will be given to candidates with training in clinical epidemiology, biostatistics, or decision analysis and who have prior research experience. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. J1 visa holders cannot apply.

The Center accepts one fellow per year and the program lasts for two years. Seventy-five percent of the fellow?s time is devoted to research, including master?s level classes in epidemiology and statistics and teaching residents, and 25% to clinical care. With appropriate course work at Duke University?s Biometry Program, a fellow is eligible for a master?s in clinical research.

Who to Contact
Lori Bastian, M.D., M.P.H., Director basti001@mc.duke.edu
or
Kathy Weatherspoon, Fellowship Coordinator weath009@mc.duke.edu

Health Services Research & Development
VA Medical Center (152)
508 Fulton Street
Durham, N.C. 27705
Telephone: (919) 286-6936
FAX: (919) 416-5836


In Accordance with Federal law, the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, sex, religion, or handicaps in admission to, access to, or treatment in the Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program.