FARE is an annual competition at the NIH in which fellows and students submit abstracts of their research in a competition for travel awards.
Just like the North Carolina and New York programs, the Texas Teaching Fellows program provides intensive training over the summer, after which fellows can immediately begin their first teaching gig (earning a full salary).
The main ways in which Fellows applied their professional skills are described below.
Finally, although the impact is more difficult to quantify, Partner Organization personnel offered examples of ways in which Fellows changed attitudes and stimulated new approaches to problem solving.
As part of the colonoscopy training regime, TEs received didactic sessions in which fellows observed senior endoscopists at work prior to the beginning of hands-on training.
This experience is the principal vehicle through which fellows gain the skills and experience that they need to move from traineeship to independent investigator status.
