Program Overview
- The Endeavor NorthShore Department of Family Medicine will host a postdoctoral fellowship for health scientists who will apply emerging technologies and research methodologies in precision medicine to a primary care and population health context to improve disease prevention and health promotion while addressing health disparities.
- One two-year fellowship will be awarded annually to eligible candidates. We anticipate fellows will stagger their two-year fellowships from year to year once the fellowship has been annualized.
- Upon acceptance into the fellowship, participants will be eligible and are encouraged to apply for the Institute for Translational Medicine’s NCAT’s funded “TL1 Postdoctoral Program in Clinical Research, Biomedical Research, Biomedical Informatics, and Health Equity.” This NRSA-funded program provides tuitions support and an additional research stipend for fellows interested in one of three training pathways to supplement the Endeavor Health Equity Precision Medicine didactic curriculum: (1) Clinical Research Pathway, (2) Medical Informatics Pathway, or (3) Public Health Pathway.
- Postdoctoral fellows will be clinically active or if non-clinical (active in community service) while pursuing mentored health equity research and will be provided with the opportunity to earn a Master of Science in Precision Health at the University of Chicago (MSPH). Fellows will be eligible to apply for training (NCATS/NIH TL1) or career development (KL2) grants through the University of Chicago-Rush University Institute for Translational Medicine (ITM).
- Applicants who do not apply to the TL1 program or are not interested in a masters’ degree can select the one-year non-degree granting certificate program. These Fellows are required to complete three Masters in Precision Health courses, of which at least two courses be from the list of core courses and up to one course can be a concentration course (e.g., Pharmacogenomics). One-year fellows complete their didactic curriculum with Endeavor Health instructors and are required to do the Community Capstone Project. Fellows will receive a certificate of completion diploma in Health Equity in Precision Health from the University of Chicago.
