Fellowships guidelines

Consistent with the read-analyze-write approach to writing used throughout this textbook, this chapter begins with an excerpt from a research proposal for you to read and analyze. Excerpt 11A is taken from a proposal that competed successfully for a graduate fellowship offered by the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (ACS). As is true for nearly all successful proposals, the principal investigator (PI) wrote this proposal in response to a set of instructions. We have included the instructions with the excerpt so that you can see for yourself how closely she followed the proposal guidelines. 

There is no official accreditation body for fellowship programs however, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and American College of Clinical Pharmacy have issued guidelines that are followed by many fellowship program directors. 

In 1987 a document with specific guidelines for clinical fellowship training programs in pharmacy was approved by ACCP and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.The guidelines, which have been updated by ACCP, relate to the training program overall, preceptor qualifications, fellow qualifications, and the fellowship experience, as follows. 

Anon. Guidelines for clinical fellowship training programs. Pharmacotherapy 1988, 8, 299. 

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