Physician-Scientist Track

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The UW Department of Medicine values biomedical research, physician-scientists, and education.

We are recruiting for combined positions with Hematology/Oncology, Metabolism & Endocrine, Nephrology, or Rheumatology in the 2024 Match.

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Resident Scholarship
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Overview

We designed the Physician-Scientist Track for Internal Medicine residents actively pursuing careers in which they will provide patient care, but focus the majority of their effort on basic/translational or clinical research. Individuals who match to the Physician-Scientist Track complete two clinically-focused years of Internal Medicine residency and then can match into a combined clinical and research fellowship in a subspecialty of Internal Medicine.

Participants will:

  • Join a vibrant, globally ranked, productive research community
  • Have extensive prior research experience with or without PhD degrees
  • Receive early advising to tailor their training experiences to their personal goals
  • Follow the ABIM Research Pathway
  • Continue to subspecialty fellowship at UW, where research training occurs

Available Fellowships

For the 2024 Match the following fellowships will be particiating in the Physician-Scientist Track:

*Due to NIH T-32 grant funding for this fellowship program, candidates must be either a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Individuals who require a visa to be eligible to work in the U.S. will not be considered.

Recent Program Participants

With investment from the Department of Medicine and its fellowship programs, we created our Physician-Scientist Track in 2023.

Previously, Categorical Track residents opted into the ABIM Research Pathway during intern year and applied to fellowship R2 year.

From 2001-2021, 46 residents followed the ABIM Research Pathway and the vast majority matched to their preferred fellowship program.  Three out of four matched in UW fellowships, 1 out of 4 pursued fellowship elsewhere.

Recent ABIM Research Pathway Participants
Participant Research Interest PGY3 Fellowship F1 Year
Ruth Howe, MD, PhD Microbiology, molecular biology, novel antimicrobial technologies Infectious Diseases
Johns Hopkins U
Infectious Diseases
U of Washington
Infectious Diseases
U of Washington
2023
Adam Cheng, MD, PhD Virology and oncogenesis, particulary in immunocompromised Hematology/Oncology
U of Wasington
2023
Lauren Jatt, MD Systems vaccinology Infectious Diseases
U of Washington
2022
Kevin Levine, MD, PhD Breast cancer basic science and novel therapeutics Hematology/Oncology
U of Washington
2022
Andrew Wescott, MD, PhD Molecular cardiology, mitochondrial bioenergetics Cardiology
U of Washington
2022
Sally Baker, MD, PhD Intersection of immunology, bacteriology, emerging infections, and vaccination Infectious Diseases
U of Washington
2021
Steven Blinka, MD, PhD Cancer genomics, cell-level oncogene expression Hematology/Oncology
U of Washington
2021
Thomas Fitzpatrick, MD Implementation sciences to minimize harms of drug addiction; global strategies for viral hepatitis Infectious Diseases
U of Washington
2021

Track Leadership

During residency, track members will receive advising from the residency program’s Associate Program Director for Research & Scholarship, the Department of Medicine’s Associate Chair for Research, and relevant fellowship program directors.

Dr. Lisa Vande Vusse

Lisa Vande Vusse, MD, MSCE

Associate Program Director
for Research & Scholarship

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Dr. Conrad Liles

W. Conrad Liles, MD, PhD

Associate Chair for Research
Department of Medicine

Application requirements

Interested candidates apply directly to the Physician-Scientist Track via ERAS. Your ERAS application must include a letter of recommendation from your research mentor/principal investigator or MSTP Director. Your personal statement should address your research and career interests and specify the UW subspecialty fellowships you are simultaneously applying to. Fellowship program directors will have access to your ERAS application: a secondary application is not needed. 

Application Process

Applications to the Physician-Scientist Track will be simultaneously reviewed by the residency program and the relevant UW fellowship program. Applicants invited to interview will be contacted for separate interviews with the residency program and fellowship program. The residency and fellowship programs will work together to submit a final rank list.