Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 7, Number 2, 1 February 1990 — Clinical research program seeks immediate applicants for 1991 [ARTICLE]

Clinical research program seeks immediate applicants for 1991

The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program is accepting applications. The program is designed to allow young physicians, who are eommitted to elinieal medicine, to gain new skills and training in the non-biological sciences important to medical care systems. The program offers two years of graduate study and research as part of a university-based post residency training program. The program is open to U.S. citizens training in any of the medical/surgical specialty fields including psychiatry, obstetrics/gynecology and family medicine. Candidates should initiate the applieahon process as soon as possible because the process begins 18 months before successful candidates could begin their terms as Clinical Scholars. Applications and on-site interviews must be completed between Jan. 1 and Apnl 1 of the year preceding proposed entry into the program. Completed applications must be received no later than March 1 to permit time to arrange and eomplete interviews by April 1. Participating universities' school of medicine and priority areas include University of California at Los Angeles for problem populations or maintaining quality care in changing social and eeonomie environments; University of California at San Francisco for disease prevention or chronic disease epidemiology and management; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for

health promotion and preventive health services or aging, disablement and long-term care; University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia for sociocultural and historical studies of health care or the economics of health care systems; University of Washington at Seattle for interface between medicine and major societal health problems or strategies for effective and efficient elinieal care. To be eligible for the elinieal Scholars Program, physicians must be committed to a career consonant with the program's purposes and priorities; be highly regarded as a physician by those responsible for his/her elinieal training; plan to complete the eiinieal requirements of his/her residency by the date of entry into the program and be U.S citizens. Physicians who meet the requirements may request application forms by contacting Jody Poet, program assistant, Clinical Scholars Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, P.O. Box 2316, Princeton, N.J., 08543-2316 or by calling (609) 452-8701. Ka i'a lau nui o ka 'aina. Big-leaved fish of the land. Lu'au, or taro greens. From "Olelo No'eau, Hawaiian Proverbs and Poetical Sayings, " published by Bishop Museum Press.