This highly prestigious internship programme is seen as the first step for healthcare professionals interested in developing a clinical academic career.
About the Scheme
The fully funded internships provide the opportunity for healthcare professionals to spend 30 days in a research environment learning more about what is involved in health research and a further 8 days taking part in an educational programme.
The internships are open to registered Health Professionals working in the NHS in England and aim to:
- increase understanding of what it means to be involved in clinical academic research
- develop research skills and expertise
- enhance ability to become a research champion within a clinical setting
- inform decisions about progressing further in a clinical academic career
More information on the scheme is available on the HEE website Clinical-academic-training-programme.
The NHS R&D North West team have successfully supervised 3 chohorts of the internship programme;
2016/2017
A total of 27 candidates were give the opportunity to take part in cohort 3 of the HEE/NIHR ICA Internship Programme in 2016. The 6 month programme began in September 2016 with a 2 day residential in Bolton and ended in February 2017 when all 27 interns cam together again in Newcastle.
2015/2016
Following an initial recruitment of 15 candidates, additional funding was released to the programme giving this unique internship opportunity to 25 candidates. Following a series of interviews in September, 25 successful candidates were awarded the prestigious HEE/NIHR Clinical Academic Research Internship. The 2015/16 programme which formally began in January 2016 and ran over 6 months.
2014/2015
Interviews for candidates were conducted in December 2014 and 15 internships were awarded. The candidates then embarked on the training programme which ran over 6 months from January to July 2015.
Read more on the previous 2014-15 Internship Programme and view some Internship Programme Testimonies
2014-2015 Cohort of Interns
Word cloud generated by interns.