football medicine has developed in the world in recent years. afc medical committee, established the idea of football medicine travelling fellowship two years ago and provided high-level healthcare services to football players in asian countries. this is a report on my one month experience in a travelling fellowship program for football medicine which is attempting to tell the reader about the ...

As the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) leads in designing and implementing the new Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship program, we congratulate Sim et al for their thoughtful contribution to the nascent literature on embedded research, and for advancing our own learning about the HSI Fellowship experience. In our commentary, we describe the HSI Fellowship and its key components,...

Introduction: The need for global health training for early-career family medicine physicians is greater than the supply. This paper details the formation of a one-year, self-funded global health fellowship for early-career family medicine physicians. Methods: In August of 2012, the University of Washington Department of Family Medicine established a self...

introduction: the need for global health training for early-career family medicine physicians is greater than the supply. this paper details the formation of a one-year, self-funded global health fellowship for early-career family medicine physicians. methods: in august of 2012, the university of washington department of family medicine established a self-funded, non-acgme (accreditation counci...

This article is the second in a 3-part series describing the RWJ Executive Nurse Fellows Program, an advanced leadership program for nurses in senior executive roles who aspire to help lead and shape the US healthcare system of the future. Part 1 (October 2005) described the program, its core leadership competencies, and the primary components. This article discusses the mentor experience that ...

As a group of Health System Impact (HSI) postdoctoral fellows, Sim and colleagues offer their reflections on ‘driving change’ within the health system and present a framework for understanding the HSI fellow as an embedded researcher. Our commentary offers a different perspective of the fellow’s role by highlighting the integrated knowledge translation (IKT) approach we...

Football medicine has developed in the world in recent years. AFC Medical Committee, established the idea of football medicine travelling fellowship two years ago and provided high-level healthcare services to football players in Asian countries. This is a report on my one month experience in a travelling fellowship program for football medicine which is attempting to tell the reader about the ...

Cite this article: Caroline W Kabiru, Chimaraoke O Izugbara, Joyce Wairimu, Djesika Amendah, Alex C Ezeh. Strengthening local health research capacity in Africa: The African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship Program. Pan Afr Med J. 2014;17(Supp 1):1