PhD Fellowships Clinical Lectureships

PhD Fellowships & Clinical Lectureships

EDINBURGH CLINICAL ACADEMIC TRAINING PROGRAMME

University of Edinburgh -College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

£31,523 - £46,708

Applications to join the prestigious ECAT programme in August 2013 are invited from medically-qualified trainees in any clinical discipline from any centre in the UK who are determined to pursue a career in academic medicine. A variety of posts has been created to maximise flexibility for individual trainees. All posts provide funding from the Wellcome trust for a full-time, three-year Research Training Fellowship leading to a PhD in one of the internationally competitive multidisciplinary research centres in Edinburgh. In addition, to optimise selection of supervisors and planning of the PhD project, (with the support of the ECAT Directors and an academic mentor from your clinical discipline), the University of Edinburgh and South East Scotland Postgraduate Deanery will provide funding for a preparatory period before beginning the three-year PhD project: this can be taken up either as a three-month, full-time out-of-programme research experience, or as an introductory year of clinical and part-time research training. On completion of the PhD, candidates who wish to continue clinical training in South East Scotland will be offered a post-doctoral Clinical Lectureship that provides parallel research and clinical training to CCT. Progression through the scheme is subject to satisfactory performance but does not involved competitive interviews after initial appointment.

The ECAT programme is now in its fifth year and has recruited 26 trainees from all around the UK, representing 17 clinical disciplines. Appointees have selected PhD projects in 14 different research centres. Further information is available at www.ecat.ed.ac.uk  

Informal enquiries are encouraged and may be addressed to the ECAT programme Directors, Professor Brian Walker (b.walker@ed.ac.uk) and Professor John Iredale (john.iredale@ed.ac.uk).  

Applicants must have obtained a specialty training position in their chosen discipline in the UK no later than August 2013 (candidates who have yet to hear the outcome of their application for speciality training in 2013 will be considered) and should not yet have undertaken a period of full-time research leading to a doctorate degree.