Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine for 2019, U.S. National Library of Medicine

Publish Date: Sep 04, 2018

Deadline: Sep 28, 2018

The Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine

The NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine supports research in the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine including but not limited to the Michael E. DeBakey papers which encompass the diverse areas in which DeBakey made a lasting impact, such as surgery, medical education, and health care policy. Overall, the NLM collections span ten centuries, encompass variety of digital and physical formats, and originate from nearly every part of the globe.

Fellowships of up to $10,000 will be awarded to individual applicants, not to institutions, to help offset the costs associated with visiting and using the NLM collections during the calendar year following the application and selection. Fellowship awards may not be used for institutional costs or overhead (e.g. clerical costs, supplies, or other attendant project expenses).

The Fellowship was established in 2016 and is supported by a generous gift from The DeBakey Medical Foundation.

About Michael E. DeBakey

Michael E. DeBakey (1908–2008) was a legendary American surgeon, educator, and medical statesman. During a career spanning 75 years, his work transformed cardiovascular surgery, raised medical education standards, and informed national health care policy. He pioneered dozens of operative procedures such as aneurysm repair, coronary bypass, and endarterectomy, which routinely save thousands of lives each year, and performed some of the first heart transplants. His inventions included the roller pump (a key component of heart-lung machines) as well as artificial hearts and ventricular assist pumps. He was a driving force in building Houston’s Baylor University College of Medicine into a premier medical center, where he trained several generations of top surgeons from all over the world. He was a visionary supporter of the NLM, playing a pivotal role in its transformation from the Armed Forces Medical Library in the 1950s, in the establishment of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine in the 1960s, in launching NLM outreach initiatives in the 1990s, and in promoting the digitization of its indexes to pre-1960s journal articles.

How to Apply

Anyone over the age of eighteen, of any academic discipline and status, is invited to apply during the application period, open each summer. Non-U.S. citizens may apply.

Your application package must include:

  • a project abstract;
  • a brief bibliography;
  • a proposed travel budget;
  • an academic transcript (required for currently enrolled students only);
  • two letters of support (at least one of which must be from someone familiar with the proposed project);
  • and proof of valid health insurance.

You can get more information about the required documents and upload them through the application portal administered by NLM partner FAES (the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences).

To receive consideration, all materials must be submitted to FAES, via the above online application portal, by midnight EDT, September 28, 2018.

Selected Fellows will be notified and awards will be announced in December of each year.

Requirements

During the calendar year following their selection, Fellows are expected to visit the National Library of Medicine to undertake their historical research projects onsite in the History of Medicine Division. While they are welcome to study any portion of the NLM collections, they are especially encouraged to explore and use the Michael E. DeBakey papers, which reflect the vast range of subjects from Michael E. DeBakey’s professional career—from surgery to health care policy, medical libraries and expanding access to medical information, medical technology to medical ethics, military medicine to veteran health, humanitarianism to international diplomacy in the medical arena. The Library’s Michael E. DeBakey papers contain correspondence, administrative records, diaries, transcripts, publications, speeches, conference and awards material, subject files, photographs, and audiovisual media, which reflect the vast expanse of Dr. DeBakey’s life, achievements, and interests as a world-renowned medical statesman, innovator, and champion of humanitarianism and life-long learning.

In addition to undertaking research projects, NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellows are required to:

  • consult with NLM staff on existing finding aids and related resources, to improve the Library’s knowledge of the collections, so this knowledge can be better shared;
  • meet the expectations of the NIH public access policy for publicly supported work, and acknowledge the NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine in any resulting scholarly works;
  • be available to the NLM Office of Communications & Public Liaison (OCPL) and the History of Medicine Division for interviews;
  • author at least one guest blog post for Circulating Now based on their research.

Selected fellows may be invited to return to the Library to present an annual NLM Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine, as part of the History of Medicine Division’s existing lecture series.

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https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/get-involved/debakey-fellowship.html

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Eligible Countries

International

Host Countries

United States