General Academic Pediatrics Fellowship

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Do you envision a career generating and applying evidence to shape health care, programs, policy, advocacy, and healthier communities—within or beyond academia? Full-time fellowship training offers protected time, mentorship, and structured development to help you launch or enrich your career.

The Johns Hopkins’ General Academic Pediatrics Fellowship provides training in pediatric primary care, population health, health services, intervention development, and community-partnered research. The program is supported by training grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Health Resources and Services Administration and accredited by the Academic Pediatric Association.

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General Academic Pediatrics Fellowship Program Goals

General Academic Pediatrics fellows and faculty

The Johns Hopkins General Academic Pediatrics Fellowship prepares future leaders to transform child health through rigorous inquiry, innovation, and action across research, clinical practice, health systems, policy, and community partnership. Fellows learn to communicate and translate evidence for clinicians, health systems, policymakers, communities, and other partners so that their work can improve child and family health.

To accomplish this goal, the fellowship provides each fellow with key competencies essential to transform child health research and practice, which are carefully tailored to their interests, goals, and experience. These competencies include:

rigorous research design and analytic methods
understanding of primary care delivery systems, health policy, health system transformation, implementation science, learning health system, and community-engaged research methods
dissemination, communication, and policy translation
responsible conduct of research and research integrity
leadership, project management, and career development

Learning Environment and Activities

Fellows devote at least 80 percent of their time to their research training. A vibrant, world-class faculty with an exceptional portfolio of extramurally funded research provides training. Within Johns Hopkins, our program collaborates formally with research centers, institutes and training programs in the School of Medicine, The Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.

Beyond this, our training environment benefits from strong partnerships at the local, state and national levels. Our program also partners with the Johns Hopkins Division of General Internal Medicine Fellowship program, enriching fellows’ training experiences across the life course.

Program activities are well-integrated and are individualized to meet each trainee’s needs and interests:

Individualized mentoring teams led by experienced research mentors.
Formal methodological coursework, including a master’s degree in public health or informatics.
Mentored research projects.
Structured career development activities.
Conferences that build fellows’ capacity to design, critique, and present research.
Dissemination and translation training that enables fellows to share their findings with stakeholders.

Physician fellows precept residents in pediatrics at either the Harriet Lane Clinic at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center or the Bayview Children’s Medical Practice. Fellows who work at the Bayview Children’s Medical Practice are typically required to be bilingual in Spanish.

Who Can Apply?

Fellows from the General Academic Pediatrics program

Physicians and other doctorally-trained individuals (e.g., Ph.D., Sc.D.) with a strong track record of academic and (where applicable) clinical excellence. Physicians without a graduate degree in public health or a related field complete a two- or three-year program; individuals with a doctoral-level research degree complete a two-year program. One-year fellowships may be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Minimum requirements for fellowship applicants include: Satisfactory completion of an ACGME-accredited pediatric or medicine-pediatrics residency program; OR graduation from a Ph.D. program in a related discipline (e.g., public health, psychology) by the time fellowship begins. Applicants who have completed a residency in Family Medicine may be considered; please contact the Program Director.

Federal guidelines require that fellows have US citizenship or permanent residency to be appointed to a training grant. If you have a question about your status, please contact us.

Compensation

Fellows are compensated based on Johns Hopkins University stipend levels (based on level and type of training), which exceed the National Institutes of Health stipend guidelines. Fellows receive medical and dental benefits, generous vacation, and paid holidays. Other benefits range by fellow role. Fellows can apply for loan repayment programs from the NIH. These programs repay up to $50,000 annually of a researcher’s qualified educational debt in return for a commitment to engage in NIH mission-relevant research.

(Note that eligibility and awards for the loan repayment program are determined by NIH and are not guaranteed.)

Why Choose Hopkins?

Since 1978, the Johns Hopkins Division of General Pediatrics has provided outstanding post-doctoral training in pediatric primary care research.

We have a track record of producing leaders in academic pediatrics, public health, and health policy. We have graduated more than a dozen division heads and training program directors around the country.

Our individualized, intensive mentorship by experienced researchers, coupled with a core curriculum and works in progress seminars and writing accountability groups ensures our fellows have the skills and resources they need to be successful after fellowship.

After graduation, more than 95% of our alums are conducting primary care and population health research in federally-designated medically underserved areas; most are serving as leaders in child health research, practice and advocacy around the US.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH), consistently ranked #1 in the US, is a rich resource for our trainees, and many general pediatrics faculty have joint appointments, teach classes, and mentor students in the BSPH. The BSPH offers an array of courses, seminars, and opportunities that can be tailored to fellows’ career goals and interests.

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