Curriculum

80% of your time is devoted to your fellowship training activities: coursework, research projects, article and grant writing, attending national meetings.

20% of your time (one day/week) is spent in clinical practice at one of our family medicine clinics to help you remain current in your clinical skills. We try to place you in a clinical setting matching your research interest areas.

First Year

• Three courses/semester in family medicine basic research, epidemiology, biostatistics, and curriculum design
• Integration seminar—discuss research challenges and progress, time management, etc. with fellowship director and faculty
• Establish goals with mentoring team, consisting of a family medicine research faculty member, faculty in your interest area, and fellowship coordinator
• HIPAA (research information privacy) and Responsible Conduct of Research training
• Develop thesis research project
• National conference
• One day/week in clinic

 Second Year

• Public health courses
• Integration Seminar
• University of Minnesota grant-writing workshop
• Library workshops, emphasizing electronic database searching
• Scholarly writing seminar emphasizing journal article development
• Thesis research project – we have a statistician and research professionals to assist you in addition to your thesis advisor
• National conference
• One day/week in clinic

 Third Year

• Advanced methods coursework in your research topic area (as needed), thesis credits
• Integration and scholarly writing seminars
• Complete research project
• Write and defend thesis in clinical research
• Write a peer-reviewed journal article and grant proposal
• Present your research at a national conference
• One day/week in clinic