Craniofacial Clinical Research Fellowship

The Craniofacial Clinical Research Fellowship is accepting applications for the July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024 Fellowship period. The 12-month fellowship in the Division of Plastic, Reconstructive and Oral Surgery at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is dedicated to pediatric plastic surgery outcomes research. Research fellows are generally medical students, foreign medical graduates, or surgery residents who desire a U.S. residency position in plastic surgery.

The application deadline is November 30, 2022.

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The Fellows’ broad responsibilities include developing hypotheses, writing grant proposals and IRB protocols, gathering data, and writing manuscripts for publication. It also includes the prospective and retrospective management, and statistical analysis of several large databases, including one of the largest craniofacial databases in the field. Fellows gain on-the-job training from residents and previous fellows who are accomplished academic researchers in plastic surgery in a fast-paced environment.

Abundant practical training leaves fellows with a robust knowledge of the current state of academic literature in pediatric craniofacial and cleft surgery, as well as an ability to effectively analyze data in the literature, develop new ideas, learn bio-statistical analysis, utilize image processing software for 3D design and modeling, and analyze institutional and national datasets to answer novel hypotheses.

A primary goal of the fellowship is to learn to create reproducible and scientifically valid data in a collaborative environment, thereby setting the foundation for many of the skills needed throughout an academic career.