Admission

Predoctoral Admission

Selection of pre-doctoral training fellows occurs during the annual admission process to the Health Services PhD Program. Appointments are determined by the PhD Admissions and Funding Committee.Eligible pre-doctoral applicants interested in this traineeship should apply to the Health Services PhD Program and indicate interest in this training fellowship on the PhD application form.

PhD Program application information is available at: http://depts.washington.edu/hservphd/application

Postdoctoral Admission

Eligible post-doctoral applicants should contact the Health Services Research Training Program prior to assembling application materials to verify that a post-doctoral opening is available during the coming year. Post-doctoral fellows may earn an MS/MPH during the training fellowship. Currently, there is one position available. Post-doctoral applicants should submit all fellowship application materials by July 1, 2012:

• Application: Please submit a postdoctoral HSRT Program Application.
  Postdoctoral Application
• Goal Statement: include your research interests within Health Services, your career goals, and how a postdoctoral fellowship in Health Services would contribute to your goals. (This statement should be approximately 1,000 words).
• Curriculum Vitae: include your current CV, positions held and publications
• Three Recommendations: Please ask your recommenders to use our evaluation form. (Your recommenders may e-mail these forms to ahrqhsrt@u.washington.edu)
  Evaluation Form
• Official Transcripts from each college and university attended
• Optional Personal Statement: The Department of Health Services welcomes fellows who have varied cultural experiences or educationally or economically disadvantaged backgrounds, and will therefore contribute to the intellectual and social enrichment of the program. If you wish to have these factors included in the review of your application, please provide a statement concerning your personal history, family background, and influences on your intellectual development. This statement should include cultural and educational opportunities (or lack thereof), social and economic disadvantages that you may have had to overcome, and the ways in which these experiences affected you. Include your special interests and abilities, career plans, and future goals.

Email completed application materials to:

ahrqhsrt@uw.edu

Mail transcripts to:

PhD/Postdoctoral Programs
1959 NE Pacific Street
Box 357660
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-7660

Phone: (206) 616-2979
Fax: (206) 543-3964
E-mail: ahrqhsrt@u.washington.edu

Program Eligibility Requirements

From the NIH Grant Guidelines for T32 NRSA Institutional Training Grants:

A "trainee" must be a citizen or non-citizen national of the United States or must have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence (i.e., in possession of a currently valid Alien Registration Receipt Card I-551, or some other legal verification of such status). Non-citizen nationals are generally persons born in outlying possessions of the United States (e.g., American Samoa and Swains Island). Individuals on temporary or student visas are not eligible.

Trainees can fall into one of the following categories:

Predoctoral Trainees. Predoctoral trainees must have received a baccalaureate degree by the beginning date of their NRSA appointment, and must be training at the postbaccalaureate level and enrolled in a program leading to a Ph.D. in science or in an equivalent research doctoral degree program. Health-professional students, graduate students in the quantitative sciences, or individuals in postgraduate clinical training who wish to interrupt their studies for a year or more to engage in full-time research training before completing their formal training programs are also eligible.

Postdoctoral Trainees. Postdoctoral trainees must have received, as of the beginning date of the NRSA appointment, a Ph.D., M.D., D.D.S., or comparable doctoral degree from an accredited domestic or foreign institution. Eligible doctoral degrees include, but are not limited to, the following: D.M.D., D.C., D.O., D.V.M., O.D., D.P.M., Sc.D., Eng.D., Dr. P.H., D.N.Sc., Pharm.D., N.D. (Doctor of Naturopathy), D.S.W., and Psy.D. Documentation by an authorized official of the degree-granting institution certifying all degree requirements have been met prior to the beginning date of training is acceptable.

Positions on NRSA institutional grants may not be used for study leading to the M.D., D.D.S., or other clinical, health-professional training except when those studies are a part of a formal combined research degree program, such as the M.D./Ph.D. Similarly, trainees may not accept NRSA support for clinical training that is a part of residency training leading to clinical certification in a medical or dental specialty or subspecialty. It is permissible and encouraged, however for clinicians to engage in NRSA supported full-time, postdoctoral research training even when that experience is creditable toward certification by a clinical specialty or subspecialty board.

Trainees are required to pursue their research training on a full-time basis, devoting at least 40 hours per week to the program. Within the 40 hours per week training period, research trainees who are also training as clinicians must devote their time to the proposed research training and must confine clinical duties to those that are an integral part of the research training experience.

Generally, it is expected that trainees will be appointed for a minimum of two consecutive years on the AHRQ T32 grant in order to benefit fully from the health services research training program. However, this is always contingent on available funds from AHRQ.

No individual trainee may receive more than 5 years of aggregate NRSA support at the predoctoral level or 3 years of support at the postdoctoral level, including any combination of support from institutional training or individual fellowship awards.