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Long Term Fellowship under the Human Resource Development Programme for Health Research

Ministry Of Health & Family Welfare

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Health Research
Long Term
Medical
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“Long Term Fellowship” under the Human Resource Development Programme for Health Research aims to provide advanced training in India and abroad to medical and health research personnel in cutting-edge research areas related to medicine and health to create trained human resources for carrying out advanced research activities. The scheme is intended to create a pool of talented health research personnel in the country by upgrading the skills of medical students & faculty through specialized training in priority areas of health research in leading national and international institutions, encouraging and supporting the trainees to develop and take up research projects for addressing critical national and local health problems.
Long Term Fellowships:
  • Long Term Training (6 to 12 Months) Fellowships at Indian Institutions to persons employed as regular faculty having at least three years experience in the college/institute as a regular employee.
  • Long Term Fellowships for Training abroad in identified priority areas (6 to 12 Months) to persons employed as regular faculty.
  • Long Term training (6-12 Months) to the faculties of Medical Colleges in Indian Institutes working/involved with three other approved Schemes of DHR.
Objective:
  • To increase the overall availability of trained personnel for health research from medical colleges across the country through scholarships & fellowships for young medical doctors to take up medical and health research as a career.
  • To focus on the creation of a cadre of trained medical/health researchers in specific identified priority areas of health research viz., Clinical Trials; Toxicology; Good Clinical Practices (GCP); Good Laboratory Practices (GLP); Quality Control (QC) & QA; Genomics; Proteomics; Clinical Psychology, Geriatrics; Modern Biology; Biotechnology; Stem cells; Genetics; Drugs chemistry; and operational research etc..
  • To create, support, nurture, and encourage the trainees from these medical colleges to forge linkages with other scientists from universities, research institutes, etc. to develop multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral teams necessary for addressing critical national and local health problems.
Areas of Research:
Toxicology, Genomics, Proteomics, Geriatrics, Stem cell research, Clinical Trials, Good Clinical Practices (GCP), Good Laboratory Practices (GLP), Quality Control (QC) and Quality Assurance (QA), Modern Biology, Biotechnology, Genetics, Drugs Chemistry, Operational Research, Health Informatics, Medical Ethics, Disease Modelling, Health Economics, Environmental Health, Mental Health/Clinical Psychology, Any other area recommended by the committee as per National Health Policy/ National Health Goals.
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