New NIH Fellows Receive Warm Reception

Episode # 65
Uploaded: August 17, 2011
Running Time: 02:20

CROWN: More than 70 clinical fellows were invited to network with graduate medical education training program directors, other NIH staff, Institute and Center Scientific and Clinical Directors, and NIH leadership at a reception in the Clinical Center on July 27. 

NIH attracts diverse talent from medical schools and academic institutions across the U.S., offering the opportunity to train at the 240-bed CC, the world’s largest hospital dedicated to clinical research.  Dr. Robert Lembo, the Clinical Center’s executive director of Graduate Medical Education said the reception for new fellows is geared towards welcoming newcomers to the NIH team.

LEMBO: We have both a formal orientation to the institution where we discuss business and here we discuss other things that are related to networking. I think this is a nice combination.

CROWN: NIH clinical fellows work collaboratively with world-renowned physicians to conduct cutting-edge investigational protocols. Eighteen medical specialty or subspecialty training programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education are available on campus, as well as numerous one-of-a-kind translational medicine fellowship training programs within the 27 Institutes and Centers of the NIH.

LEMBO: Individuals are coming to the NIH because they know that the value added to their training is in the area of training and research methodology, and opportunities to have support in conducting their own research projects and the ability then to have a portfolio to take with them should they decide to leave the NIH, that allows them to be highly competitive relative to academic positions.

CROWN: For more information on NIH's Graduate Medical Education, visit the Office of Clinical Research and Training website at http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/training. From America's Clinical Research Hospital, this has been CLINICAL CENTER RADIO. In Bethesda, Maryland, I'm Ellen Crown, at the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the United States Department of Health.

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