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Soros Advocacy Fellowship for Physicians

Program on Medicine as a Profession (MAP) of the Open Society Institute announces the next application deadline of January 19, 2005 for the Soros Advocacy Fellowship for Physicians. For more information on the fellowship and on the Medicine as a Profession program, please visit .

The Soros Advocacy Fellowship for Physicians is designed to enable physicians to develop or strengthen advocacy skills through collaboration with a U.S.-based advocacy organization during a 12-24 month fellowship period.

Through this fellowship, participating physicians will design and implement projects that address health and service delivery or other social issues such as racism, violence, environmental hazards, and education. Organizations that do policy or system level advocacy benefit by having the presence of a physician collaborating with their staff. Organizations may apply for up to $5,000 a year to support costs associated with the fellows' project.

Projects should be focused within the United States and should identify system or policy level changes as the outcome of the fellowship work. Please note that we do not fund projects for direct service or research. Although the program welcomes projects that provide opportunities for role modeling, it does not encourage proposals that are solely devoted to training or curriculum development.

Applicants must apply for the fellowship with the commitment of an advocacy organization that is prepared to house, mentor, and support them throughout the fellowship period. A list of advocacy organizations that have expressed interest in participating in the fellowship is available at our website at www.soros.org/medicine. Applicants may also apply with organizations other than those listed on the website.

We encourage applications from physicians at all stages of their careers who have been practicing for at least one year after completing residency. The most competitive applicants are practicing physicians who will have an opportunity to serve as role models, either in an academic or clinical setting, to their colleagues and to future physicians.

During the application process, inquires can be sent to ccalhoon@sorosny.org.


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