Medical students invited to apply for CDC Applied Epidemiology Fellowship

Medical students with a strong interest in public health or in practicing medicine with a broad, analytic perspective are invited to apply for the CDC Experience Applied Epidemiology Fellowship.

Eight competitively selected fellows will spend 10 to 12 months at the CDC offices in Atlanta, where they will carry out epidemiologic analyses in various areas of public health. Students will have opportunities to investigate outbreaks of disease in different populations, travel to help set up surveillance programs or engage in injury prevention research, to name a few examples.

The opportunity is open to third- and fourth-year medical students and is designed to increase the pool of physicians with a population health perspective. Application materials for the next fellowship class must be submitted by Dec. 3, 2010. More information is available online.