For applicants: doctoral clinical fellows

When you complete the application form you will be asked to select two to three PhD projects in ranked order. Please give each project a rank of 1 or 2, 1 being your most preferred choice(s). You can have more than one project ranked 1 and 2. Before completing the application form, therefore, please read about the available PhD projects carefully. Note, project outlines are a guide, and not fixed, the details are subject to change. 

It is not necessary to contact group leaders to discuss the project(s) or your application before submission, but you are welcome to do so if you wish.
 

Please pay particular attention to this section, and please tell us what science areas you are most interested in and how this relates to the positions/supervisors you have selected (max 200 words); why doing a PhD is important to you and how this relates to your clinical, research and career aspirations (max 300 words); and something about you and your life experiences beyond your studies and clinical work (max 100 words). Please note the maximum word limits for each of the 3 text boxes you will need to complete.

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Please list any relevant wet or dry laboratory research experience that you have, including details of the institution(s), supervisor(s), dates, brief description of the project(s) and research skills learned. Please do not include clinical audits or service evaluations.

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To be eligible to apply you must have held a clinical post following qualification with a medical, dental or veterinary degree. Please provide details here of your clinical employment history since qualification including the name of the hospital, clinical specialty, grade of training and dates.

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Please provide details of your professional qualifications (if applicable) including the title (eg MRCP, FDS etc), result achieved, level and field of study, institution and dates.

Please provide details of your academic education including degree grades. Your first entry "Academic Degree 1" should be your medical, dental or veterinary degree.

If you are studying/have studied at a non-UK university, please give your university's standard name in English.

In the section on your courses/modules taken, please state each course/module with credits and marks/grades in order to give us as complete information as possible. Please enter each course/module as a new paragraph. If you have studied at a non-UK university, please detail your grades and provide information about your university's grading system.

You will be asked to upload a copy of your CV - this must be a PDF (.pdf) file that is no larger than 2MB. Please name your CV file using the following structure, and without spaces or special characters: FirstnameSurnameCVyear - eg - JaneDoeCV2023.

This section is to provide additional information about yourself (such as details about your GMC or equivalent registration, eligibility to work in the UK, any additional information you wish to bring to our attention), and to help us advertise our fellowships in the future.

To be eligible to apply you must hold General Medical Council (GMC) registration or equivalent registration (eg GDC registration, RVCS registration or equivalent national registration outside the UK).

We ask you to give details of two or three referees. Please select your referees carefully: one must be your current or most recent clinical supervisor, at least one must be able to comment on your wet/dry laboratory-based research experience, and at least one must be able to comment on your clinical education, skills and experience.

Please ensure that your referees' contact details, especially their email addresses, are accurate and enter only one email address per referee. We will not normally make any changes to referee details after you have submitted your application.

The deadline for reference receipt is 12:00 noon (GMT) 22 November 2023. It is important that you check - before you submit your application - that your referees will be able and willing to provide a reference within this timeframe. Your application may be considered if references are not received by the deadline, however, we will not invite any applicants to interview without 2 references in place.

We will contact your referees by email as soon as you submit your application, asking them to complete an online reference form. When you submit your application please contact your referees to confirm that they have received our reference request email (these emails sometimes get blocked by email/university security systems or end up in spam folders).

Please help your referees meet this deadline by informing them of your application, checking (before you submit your application) that they are willing and able to provide a reference by the deadline, and by encouraging them to submit their reference soon after receipt of our email. You and your referee will receive an acknowledgement email once each reference has been submitted.

Remember, if you leave your application until the closing date your referees will only have a short time to return your reference.

This section is for equal opportunities monitoring purposes. The information you provide will be anonymised and will not be available to recruiting supervisory teams.

Please review your application carefully and complete any missing fields. Once all the mandatory fields are completed, you will be able to submit by clicking the submit button at the bottom of the screen.

Once you have submitted your application you will not be able to make further changes. You will be sent an email confirming that you have submitted your application.

Please note that these emails sometimes get blocked by email/university security systems or end up in spam folders, so please check your spam/junk folder.

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