Academic Clinical Fellows
UCL is proud to have one of the largest cohorts of National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) trainees in the UK.
We have approximately 100 NIHR Academic Clinical Fellows and 50 NIHR Clinical Lecturers in posts across UCL and UCL Partners Academic Health Sciences System.
Every trainee has a clinical and an academic supervisor and is provided with a £1,000 per annum NIHR training bursary.
Trainees
are provided with bespoke clinical and academic training appropriate
for their specialty and research interests, and in addition have access
to funding for the MSc in Clinical and Experimental Medicine or any other credit-bearing Masters course at UCL.
Our
Academic Clinical Fellowship schemes have an overall success rate of
approximately 85% over the last five years in securing peer-reviewed
internationally competitive research funding to continue their clinical
academic careers.
NIHR ACF posts are available to medically qualified
trainees, who are in the early stages of their specialty training and
show
outstanding potential for a career in academic medicine or dentistry.
UCL offer a varied selection of ACF posts at levels CT1 or ST3 depending on
specialty.
We welcome ACF applicants either with or without a PhD
provided an ACF post offers an appropriate career development option for them.
Before you apply for a ACF post through the London Deanery you
will need to check your eligibility.
You will need to register with the London Deanery
before applying for an Academic Clinical Fellow post.
Trainees hold an honorary UCL contract throughout their post
(as well as a NHS contract) giving them access to
library facilities, computer network facilities and other necessary generic
research tools.
Bursary
NIHR Annual Bursary
Academic Clinical Fellows are entitled to a £1000 bursary each year they are in
post for conference, workshops and research visits including travel, registration and hotel costs.
NIHR MSc Training Fund
You also have an option to take an MSc or modules of an MSc whilst in post
funded by the NIHR training fund.
