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THE Medical Research Council has been entrusted by the Rockefeller Foundation of New York with £3,000 annually, for three years in the first instance, for the award of travelling fellowships in medicine to candidates in the United Kingdom. This benefaction renews an arrangement which had been successful during an earlier period, but which had latterly been interrupted during a revision of the Foundation's general policy. These Rockefeller fellowships are intended for graduates who have had some training in research work in clinical medicine or surgery or in some other branch of medical science, and are likely to profit by a period of work at a chosen centre in the United States or elsewhere abroad before taking tip positions for higher teaching or research in Great Britain. Five or six fellowships will be available annually, and applications for the academic year 1937-38 will be invited in May. It is of interest to recall an analysis which was made, at the end of the previous ten-year period, of the positions occupied by the seventy men and women who had completed their tenure of Rockefeller Fellowships awarded by the Council. This showed that twelve were professors in universities, that thirty-six others occupied whole-time positions for teaching and research, and that a further sixteen held part-time appointments of the same kind.
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Rockefeller Travelling Medical Fellowships. Nature 139, 667 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139667a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139667a0