Fellowship Application Process

Applications to the Primary Care Research Fellowship Program are currently being accepted for the 2024-25 year with an immediate start date, as well as the 2025-26 year with a July 1, 2025 start date. Interviews will be offered to strong applicants and positions will be offered thereafter on a rolling basis. Successful applicants will have areas of interest that fit the program’s faculty and UNC’s strengths and who demonstrate the intellect, integrity, interpersonal skills and commitment to be successful primary care researchers.

 

Feel free to contact any of the program’s leaders with your questions and to learn more about the program, faculty, and UNC.

Program director, Katrina Donahue, MD, MPH, at katrina_donahue@med.unc.edu
Program associate director for Internal Medicine, Seth Berkowitz, MD, MPH, at seth_berkowitz@med.unc.edu
Program associate director for Pediatrics, Samantha Schilling, MD, MSHP, at samantha_schilling@med.unc.edu

Program associate director for Social Work, Lisa Zerden, PhD, MSW, at lzerden@email.unc.edu 

 

To Apply:

  1. Click HERE to fill out an application for the 2024-25 year or click HERE to fill out an application for the 2025-26 year.
    1. Upload the following required documents through the online portal:
      • Cover letter
      • Up-to-date curriculum vitae
      • Personal statement detailing your objectives in undertaking a research-oriented training fellowship and your proposed career direction after the fellowship
  2. Submit two letters of recommendation on letterhead from persons familiar with your talents, interests, promise in research, and future directly to Lindsay McCall at lmccall@email.unc.edu.

 

If there are questions, please contact the Program Coordinator, Lindsay McCall at 919-966-8628 or lmccall@email.unc.edu.

 

In accordance with the NIH Grants Policy Statement (11.3.2.6), applicants for fellowship support must be a citizen or a noncitizen national of the United States or have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence at the time of appointment.