Overview
A one-year paid fellowship training in health-disparities research and clinical care of skin-of-colour diseases, with hidradenitis suppurativa as the platform disease.
The programme
- Focus
- Inflammatory skin disease research
- Training type
- Clinical and Research Fellowship
- Duration
- 1 year
- Start
- 1 July 2026 (application period now closed)
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- Not stated on official page
- Department
- Department of Dermatology
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- MD or equivalent; at least one year of residency; USMLE Steps 1 and 2; eligible for NC trainee licence
- International applicants
- Applicants must be US citizen/permanent resident/refugee/asylee or hold a non-immigrant visa status authorising US employment
- Visa support
- Institution policyJ-1 alien physician status sponsored by ECFMG with Duke's assistance; Duke is H-1B cap-exempt and H-1B is possible for clinical trainees who have passed USMLE Steps 1-3 and hold an ECFMG certificate (individual programmes decide which visas they accept)
- Licence requirement
- Eligible for North Carolina trainee licence
How to apply
- Deadline
- 30 March 2026 (closed)
- Application method
- Not stated on official page
Funding
- Funding
- Paid monthly salary plus $1,000 conference stipend