Insights from a Wellcome Trust Fellow
By Primary Care & Health Sciences
Each of our fellows are part of a PhD programme for primary care clinicians, which suppors the development of clinical academics through providing high quality training and internationally renowned applied research units (Keele University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford and Southampton University).
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Insights from a Wellcome Trust FellowJul 04, 2019
How to get into research as a clinician: Dr. Helen Twohig (Keele University)
Helen Twohig is a salaried GP in Sheffiled, and was awarded a Wellcome Trust Primary Care PhD Fellowship at Keele Univeristy in 2017. In this podcast, Helen tells us how she first got into research and how fellowships like this have supported her on her career path into research whilst continuing her clinical work as a GP.
Life as a GP and Clinical Academic: Dr. Clare Goyder (University of Oxford)
Dr. Clare Goyder studied medicine at the University of Oxford, going on to complete her training in general practice medicine in Oxford, qualifying in 2016. Clare has always been interested in the science that underpins medicine, and embarked on a Wellcome Trust Fellowship within the University of Oxford's Department of Primary Care Sciences alongside her clinical work as a GP in Oxford.
In this podcast, Clare shares her insights as a clinical academic, as she carries out research on the diagnosis of heart failure in primary care.
Wellcome Trust Primary Care Clinical Fellowships - Who, what, when, where and why?
Dr. Yin Zhou is a GP and Wellcome Trust Doctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge, where she is being funded for a part-time PhD under the supervision of Dr Fiona Walter and Professor Yoryos Kyratzopoulos. She's researching patient afety, in particular diagnostic safety and quality in cancer diagnosis.
In this podcast, Yin shares her experiences as a Wellcome Trust Clinical Fellow and her hints and tips if you're interesting in applying.