Funding is available for six to twelve months of dedicated research.
The student must be guided by a faculty mentor and participate in a program of training in methods of clinical research and health policy. The fellowship was first awarded in 2000 from grant funds received from the Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Research Foundation . The fellowship is administered jointly by the OMCA and the Office of Student Research . The Pfeiffer fellowships provide support for Yale medical students to obtain one year of clinical research training that prepares them to become physicians whose practice and research focuses on improvement of health care practices, policies, and systems that affect the quality and outcome of health care in underserved communities and and vulnerable populations in the the United States. This fellowship award is restricted to Yale medical students.