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Health Services Research Fellowship Programs

 

COIN participates in the VA Advanced Fellowship Program in Health Services Research & Development. The Fellowship Program works closely with AcademyHealth as a national coordinating center to provide high-quality training and curriculum focused on Learning Health Systems (LHS) core competencies. The two-year Fellowship is designed to transform fellows into independent investigators prepared for future VA and/or University-based research careers. Emphasis is placed on one-on-one mentorship and peer interaction.

the 2024 - 2025 Seattle-Denver Fellows
Meet our 2024 - 2025 Seattle-Denver Fellows

Both the Seattle and Denver sites offer PhD and MD Fellowships.

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Denver Fellowships


The Fellowship works closely with AcademyHealth as a national coordinating center to provide high-quality training and curriculum focused on Learning Health Systems (LHS) core competencies. The two-year Fellowship is designed to have novice PhD researchers develop and apply their research skills by completing a publishable research project. Emphasis is placed on one-on-one mentorship and peer interaction.

Denver offers both PhD and MD Fellowships and is led by Catherine Battaglia, PhD, RN, Christine Jones, MD, MS, Sridharan Raghavan, MD, PhD; and the Learning Health Systems Curriculum Director is Heather Gilmartin, PhD, RN.

Denver PhD Fellowship

The PhD Fellowship provides research experiences that will better position the research fellows to impact and improve Veterans health. PhD Fellows will do so through healthcare improvement activities and projects, in addition to activities related to scholarship (e.g., manuscripts, presentations, grants).

Download the updated 2024-2025 flyer for the PhD program including application details.

Denver MD Fellowship

The MD Fellowship provides research experiences that will better position the research fellows to impact and improve Veterans health. MD Fellows can expect to spend 75 percent of their time in research, healthcare improvement, and/or educational activities and 25 percent in clinical care. The MD Fellowship is chaired by Dr. Jones and affiliated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Download the updated 2024-2025 flyer for the MD program including application details.

Updated 13 March 2024

Seattle Fellowships


Seattle offers both Postdoctoral Fellowships led by John C. Fortney, PhD and MD Fellowships led by Jacob Doll, MD and Charles C. Engel, MD, MPH.

Seattle Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Postdoctoral Fellowship increases skills in health services research. Fellows are expected to engage in research activities (e.g., data collection/analysis, manuscript preparation, grant writing), participate in related educational activities (e.g. cyberseminars, workshops, selected course work at the University of Washington) and participate in VA research review meetings.  Psychologists, social workers and nurses may spend up to 20 percent of their time in clinical care. All fellows receive academic appointments in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington. The Postdoctoral Fellowship is chaired by Dr. Fortney.

Download the flyer for the Postdoctoral Fellowship program including application details.

Seattle MD Fellowship

The MD Fellowship is for physicians who have completed residency training and focuses on increasing skills in health services research. Fellows pursue a wide variety of research and clinical interests, including General Internal Medicine and its specialties, Family Medicine, Women’s Health, Psychiatry, and Public Health. Fellows are expected to engage in research activities (e.g., data collection/analysis, manuscript preparation, grant writing), participate in related educational activities (e.g. cyberseminars, workshops, selected course work at the University of Washington) and participate in VA research review meetings.  All fellows will spend up to 25% of their time in clinical care and receive academic appointments in the University of Washington School of Medicine. The MD Fellowship is co-chaired by Drs. Doll and Engel.

Click here for the MD program including application details.