Partner Programs

The Robert J. Lefkowitz Society provides a home for MD and MD/PhD post-graduate trainees who are in the Duke University School of Medicine, and are pursuing careers with a primary focus on basic and translational research as physician-investigators. Five to ten physician-scientists in residency or fellowship training are selected each year from across the School of Medicine. Society members meet with each other and with physician-scientist faculty advisors to network, gain career advice, and share scientific perspectives.

The Duke Medicine Physician-Scientist Training Program (PSTP) is designed for exceptional MD or MD/PhD candidates to seamlessly integrate clinical and research training, beginning in internship (PGY-1) and extending to the completion of a subspecialty fellowship program. The program supports trainees as they transition from medical school graduation (an MD or combined MD/PhD degree) to full-time academic appointment to achieve a career goal of becoming a successful and productive physician scientist.

The mission of the Duke Pediatric Research Scholars Program (DPRS) is to identify and train the next generation of pediatric physician-scientists as leaders in the development and implementation of innovative strategies to improve the health of children. This Physician-Scientist Training Program (PSTP) is dedicated to preparing burgeoning physician-scientists for careers in academic medicine. DPRS focuses on the period from residency and fellowship training through the transition to an academic appointment. The training program combines the intensive clinical training environment of Duke Children’s with the rigorous scientific training of Duke University’s world-renowned laboratories. 

The Duke Surgery Research Training Fellowship is required for all Duke general surgery residents. The fellowship will typically last two years but can be shorter or longer based on compelling circumstances. The research can include discovery-based activity across the spectrum from basic and translation to clinical and population-based work, so long as it is sufficiently impactful and ambitious. During the fellwoship every resident must write and submit at least one grant and should submit several unless funding is secured.

The Third Year Office at the Duke University School of Medicine facilitates distinctive opportunities for students to broaden their background in basic science as well as patient-oriented research (clinical research, epidemiology, population health), humanities and AI/BME, the basis of clinical medicine. The primary goal of the third year is to develop tomorrow's physician leaders through a rigorous scholarly experience in biomedical-related research. The office offers needs based Financial Aid and scholarship opportunities. OPSD provides adminstrative support for the Third Year Office in running Internal Third-Year Scholarship applications.