Training Opportunities
VA Career Development Programs
The purpose of VA’s Career Development Programs is to match well-known, established VA research mentors to junior researchers so they can learn from leaders in their research fields. It is open to early career clinician and non-clinician researchers. Awardees from this program have gone on to become national/international leaders in their respective research fields.
More information including the Career Development Handbook, LOI submission address, application process, and deadlines can be found on the Career Development webpage.
For more information on VA career development at CINCCH, please contact the co-leaders of our Mentoring Core, Drs. Charlesnika Evans and Howard Gordon.
VA Research Track for UIC Clinical Leaders and Academic Scholars (CLASS) Fellowship
CINCCH and Jesse Brown VA Medical Center (JBVA) are partnering with University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Clinical Leaders and Academic Scholars (CLASS) fellowship to create a VA Research Track to prepare residency-trained, board eligible/certified physicians to conduct health systems research within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). The VA Research Track is similar to the standard two year CLASS Research Leadership Track at UIC, in that trainees complete the 32 credit hour MS degree in Clinical and Translational Science, commit 25% time to clinical care, and complete a mentored project.
More information about the VA Research Track of the UIC Class Fellowship and how to apply can be found here.
Summer VA CINCCH-Academic (VACA) Research Program
The Center of Innovation for Complex Chronic Healthcare (CINCCH) is offering full-time, paid positions during the summer to undergraduate students in health science fields.
CINCCH, with support from VA Office of Research and Development, is providing the opportunity for undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds to obtain hands-on research experience in health services and outcomes research and team-based science to reinforce goals for pursuing a scientific research career.
More information about the Summer VACA Internship can be found here.
