Project Details
Projekt
Clinician Scientist CareerS Münster
Applicant
Professor Dr. Michael Schäfers
Subject Area
Clinical Immunology and Allergology
Immunology
Nuclear Medicine, Radiotherapy, Radiobiology
Virology
Immunology
Nuclear Medicine, Radiotherapy, Radiobiology
Virology
Term
since 2022
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 493624047
The Clinician Scientist strategy of the Medical Faculty Münster (MFM) supports the next generation of Clinician Scientists by offering comprehensive, structured career development that enables excellence in both clinical practice and research. With funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG), we launched our Clinician Scientist CareerS Münster programme in January 2023. Through this programme, we have enriched and integrated both existing and new career modules at MFM to create a coherent, flexible, and highly attractive career programme that supports Clinician Scientists at all career stages, working on any research topic and in any clinical discipline. We have established the new DFG-funded core module CareerS Boost that supports Clinician Scientists with already proven scientific qualifications in their continuous development by granting 18 months of flexible and protected research time over 3 years during specialisation training. Boost was complemented with the new module Starter which provides 50% protected research time over 12 months during specialisation training. This module enables Clinician Scientists with first scientific qualifications to enter the CareerS programme at an earlier stage to dive more deeply into research and initiate a scientific project and collaborations. Our support modules offer Clinician Scientists accompanying training modules and provides them with individual mentoring and valuable support from a career network. Importantly, research time can count towards clinical specialisation training. Calls for applications twice per year allow a high flexibility for individual career plans and lead to continuous interest and new candidates in every round of the programme. To build up a coherent Clinician Scientist programme addressing all career levels and showing attractive prospects, a new module CareerS Group promoting the subsequent career step to an Independent Group Leader was introduced in 2024. Together, the funding modules of CareerS create a dynamic and supportive ecosystem that empowers Clinician Scientists to excel in both patient care and research. By addressing the unique needs of Clinician Scientists at each career stage, the CareerS programme at the MFM ensures that its participants are well-prepared to tackle the challenges of modern academic medicine and to make meaningful contributions to science and healthcare.
DFG Programme
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