Application Process & Submission

The application cycle for the 2025 CIIS Fellowship is now open! Apply by February 28th, 2025!

Application Due Date: February 28, 2025
Interviews for select applicants: March 17-28, 2025
Applicant Notification Date: April 15, 2025
Fellowship Start Date: July 1, 2025

Application details can be found below and linked here. Please submit your application at the bottom of this page.

Who should apply? Clinician- or non-clinician early career scientists with a strong interest in a research career that involves Implementation and Improvement Science and a Departmental commitment to their research career development. For this application, early career scientists are defined as either (1) BU faculty at the Instructor or Assistant Professor level or (2) Post-doctoral fellows (either clinician [e.g., MD, DMD, DO, PharmD, NP, etc.] or non-clinical [e.g., PhD, DrPH, ScD]) fellows who have a commitment to remain at BU/BMC as junior faculty after fellowship. The CIIS Fellowship is intended to serve as a bridge to a Career Development (K) Award or similar research funding. Applicants are not currently expected to be funded researchers, but to be individuals willing to learn new research skills and pursue IS research as a substantial part of their career goals. Those with an active Career Development Award are also encouraged to apply.

    CIIS is accepting applications for two separate fellowship positions:

• BU Department of Medicine Supported Fellow: Open only to members of the Department of Medicine. The 50% FTE support for this position will be funded 25% by the applicant’s section and 25% by CIIS through Department of Medicine funding. Clinical fellows in their last year of fellowship may apply if they will join the BUMC faculty.
• Non-DoM Supported Fellow: Open to all eligible applicants across the BU and BMC campuses. The 50% FTE support for this position will be funded fully by the applicant’s department or section. Because of the wide range of roles of potential applicants, the shared funding contribution of CIIS will be discussed on an individual basis after review of applications.

What is needed for the application?

• NIH Biosketch
• A letter of support from Section Chief or Department Chair that outlines:
  1. Local need for an Implementation Scientist
  2. If applicant is a post-doctoral fellow, a commitment to retain applicant as faculty after fellowship (co-signed by applicant).
  3. Total proposed FTE of the applicant devoted to CIIS fellowship (50%) and % FTE support that will be provided by the sponsoring Section/Department as protected research time (minimum 25% FTE for Department of Medicine Fellow, full 50% for non-Department of Medicine Fellow).
  4. How applicant will spend non-protected time (% clinical, administrative, teaching, etc. outside of Fellowship time).
• Budget that includes anticipated cost of salary support requested from CIIS for the Fellowship and support contributed by home Department/Section.
• Completed CIIS Fellowship Application (linked here).

Criteria for Selection

• Plan for career development
• Quality of proposed implementation or improvement research project
• Willingness to learn new methodologic skills outside of content area of interest through collaborative research projects
• Commitment to actively participate in CIIS activities, including educational seminars, team meetings, etc.
• Department/Section’s commitment to and investment in the applicant’s research career development

Submit completed applications below