Research fellowships are the research equivalent of a “residency” and many clinical researchers from different healthcare professions complete a 1-3 year fellowship to obtain research training following their clinical degree. A number of options are available at major academic medical centers and we encourage integrative medicine clinicians to apply for these. A substantial cohort of naturopathic physicians have secured postgraduate research training grants from NIH at research universities in the last 15 years including at Columbia University, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, the Universities of Arizona, Minnesota, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and elsewhere. Research training opportunities specific to topics in complementary and alternative medicine are offered by the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). Fellowships are also available for pre-doctoral and mid-career candidates. For more information on NCCAM-funded fellowships, click here.
NPRI is working with the Naturopathic Postgraduate Association and the Naturopathic Education and Research Consortium to support additional research fellowships within postgraduate naturopathic clinical residencies at naturopathic training institutions with a focus on practice-based research.
Our first pre-doctoral research fellowship was awarded to Steve Chamberlin (NCNM, ND3) in February 2012 for work on the Naturopathic Transactions Project, a description of naturopathic practice from clinical administrative data beginning with academic clinics.
