Fellowships
Yale Center For Medical Informatics IMPA2CT Fellowship
Location: New Haven, CT
Duration: 2 years
Program Overview: The IMPA2CT fellowship provides advanced training in healthcare policy, administration and informatics related to the management of musculoskeletal pain disorders. The program aims to attract chiropractors of exceptional management potential and develop them into leaders in the analysis and administration of healthcare system programs related to musculoskeletal pain disorders with a focus on innovative nonpharmacological approaches. The goal of the fellowship is to prepare graduates for future careers in healthcare policy and/or administration.
Eligibility:
- Applicants must hold a Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) degree and an unrestricted chiropractic license in any US state by the start date of the fellowship period.
- Applicants should have advanced education and/or experience in one or more of the following: computer programming, data analytics, health policy and/or healthcare administration.
Department of Veterans Affairs Advanced Fellowship Programs
The VA Advanced Fellowships Programs offer post-residency, post-doctoral, and post masters fellowships to physicians and dentists, and associated health professions – which includes nurses, psychologists, social workers, chiropractors and other disciplines.
The VA Advanced Fellowship programs provide unique preparation for future leaders in healthcare by providing hands-on mentored educational experiences to develop skills in specific clinical areas and more broadly for healthcare system and healthcare education system transformation through policy, system redesign, and research. Through creative partnerships, use of new technology, and innovative educational modalities, the VA Advanced Fellowships Program promotes and fosters the highest standards of leadership, intellectual integrity, research, and patient care.
Currently over 25 VA Advanced Fellowship Program are offered. Of the programs open to Associated Health professionals, we have identified 12 that are most potentially applicable to chiropractors. Information on those 12 programs is provided below. For a chiropractor applicant to be competitive for any program, in addition to a DC degree, he/she should possess additional degrees, training, experience, and/or credentials directly applicable to the content area of the fellowship.
Locations: Multiple Locations
Duration: 2 years
Program Overview: This program is aimed to enhance the skills of health professionals in medical informatics and increase recruitment and retention of medical informatics specialists within the VA. During the program, fellows will contribute to the application of medical informatics within the VA’s patient care delivery system, spending much of their time in research and education activities relevant to VA.
Location: Multiple Locations
Duration: 2 years
Program Overview: Fellows will spend approximately 75 percent of their time in research and education and 25 percent in clinical care at selected VA site. Graduates are expected to be role models in leading, developing, conducting, and evaluating innovative research, education, and clinical care in health issues pertaining to women veterans.
Health Professions, Education, Evaluation & Research
Location: Multiple Locations
Duration: 2 years
Program Overview: 70 percent of the fellows time will be spent in training, development and implementation of projects related practice, and advancement of healthcare education. The other 30 percent of the time will be in clinical care. At the completion of the program, the fellow should develop expertise in educational program evaluation, assessments, and education research and have the ability to apply curriculum development, instructional design principles and strategies to enhance educational programs.
Locations: Multiple Locations
Duration: 2 years
Program Overview: The fellow will spend approximately 75 percent of their time in course work in geriatrics and gerontology and developing and implementing a research project that results in some form of professional recognition. The other 25 percent of the fellows time will be clinical care, primarily in a VA facility.
Polytrauma/Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation
Location: Long Beach, CA
Duration: One-year track - Clinical Practice; Two-year track - Research
Program Overview: This fellowship is designed to meet the growing needs for those returning home with TBI, complex orthopedic injuries, and physical and psychological wounds accompanied by cognitive deficits from blast injury. Both programs provide appropriately prepared associated health professionals with in-depth preparation in clinical care, research and leadership in Polytrauma, TBI, and related neuroscience fields.
War Related & Unexplained Illnesses
Location: East Orange, NJ
Duration: 2 years
Program Overview: This fellowship is divided into three core content areas: health and neurobehavioral research, integrative physiology, and complementary and alternative medicine. The program is focused on providing service to combat veterans who have difficult- to-diagnose disabling illnesses through clinical care, risk communication, education, and re search addressing potential environmental exposures and adverse health outcomes.
Location: Multiple Locations
Duration: 2 years
Program Overview: Fellows spend approximately 75 percent of their time in research and education and 25 percent in clinical care at selected VA sites. Specifics about each program’s focus can be found by following the link below.
Location: Multiple Locations
Duration: Practitioner Track: 1 year; Research Track: 2 years
Program Overview: The practitioner track emphasizes the development or enhancement of skills unique to health systems engineering, with the aim of designing and optimizing care systems and subsystems. The research track focuses on assisting the development and implementation of the Operational Systems Engineering and assist in the acceleration of VHA by incorporation of OSE tools and techniques.
Location: Multiple Locations
Duration: 1 year
Program Overview: In this program the fellow will gain knowledge needed to comply with Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education which oversees physician education and study key concepts in patient safety such as Root Cause Analysis, Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis, and Medical Team Training.
Location: Multiple Locations
Duration: 1 year
Program Overview: This program was designed to help expanded VHAs educational objectives by establishing or expanding simulation programs. Fellows will be trained on procedures needed to hold clinical simulations regulated by National Simulation Learning, Education and Research Network (SimLEARN). These simulations that are used in a variety of situations and include trainee education, procedural competency, hospital privileging, system testing, and patient safety.
Health Services Research and Development
Location: Multiple Locations
Duration: 2 years
Program Overview: This program aims to develop a cadre of physicians with health services expertise for the VA healthcare system and foster the development of high quality health services research and development at local and national levels. Fellows will be provided with advanced inter-professional training opportunities in innovative health services research, implementation science, and healthcare system improvement.
Location: Washington D.C. (resident track); Multiple sites (non-resident track)
Duration: 1 year
Program Overview: This program provides fellows with the skills, content, and hands-on experience to be able to offer policy solutions to the health challenges of an increasingly aging population and the barriers to the health care system that serves them. The program begins with an extensive orientation session followed by ongoing mentorship, network building professional training and policy work. Focus may be at federal, state, or community level.