Grants & Funding

Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Published Date: July 07, 2003

Program Information

Program Name:

MFM Fellowship Matching Programs

Program URL:

http://www.smfm.org/index.cfm?zone=careers&nav=directory&fuse=viewtype

Type of Scientists Funded:

Initial PhD Postdoc, Advanced PhD Postdoc, Initial MD Postdoc, Advanced MD Postdoc, Junior Faculty, Administrator, Senior Scientist/Faculty

Program Description:

his is the 13th year that the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) will conduct the computer match selection of candidates applying for fellowships in Maternal-Fetal Medicine. The fellowship matching program was conceived and organized through the auspices of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM), which is the professional society for maternal-fetal medicine specialists in the United States. The match is designed primarily for your benefit - to eliminate undue pressure placed on you to make a decision regarding a specific program before you have had the opportunity to explore all of your options.

Public Contact Information

Program Award Term and Application Process

• Award Term Fixed or Variable?    Fixed
• If fixed, enter total term?    1  Year
• Award Renewable?    No
• Does an individual or institution apply to the program?    Individual
• Is there an application deadline?    No
• Deadline Comments   
  Please refer to the website for more information http://www.smfm.org/index.cfm?zone=careers&nav=directory&fuse=viewtype

  All application deadlines are dependent on the institutions where you would like to obtain the fellowship.

Program FUNDS

• Stipend Information:
  
  
• Annual stipend type:    Not Applicable
• Stipend Details:   
  Please refer to the website for more information http://www.smfm.org/index.cfm?zone=careers&nav=directory&fuse=viewtype

  Stipends and research funding is dependent on the institutions where you would like to obtain the fellowship.

• 
  Research Allowance Information:
  
  
• Annual research allowance type:    Not Applicable
• Research Allowance Detail:    Please refer to the website for more information http://www.smfm.org/index.cfm?zone=careers&nav=directory&fuse=viewtype

  Stipends and research funding is dependent on the institutions where you would like to obtain the fellowship.

• 
  Indirect Costs (Institutional Funds) Information:
  
  
• Indirect costs type:    Not Applicable
• 
  Other Costs Information:
  
  
• Other Costs type:    Not Applicable
• Other Costs Details:    Please refer to the website for more information http://www.smfm.org/index.cfm?zone=careers&nav=directory&fuse=viewtype

Program Eligibility Requirements

Research Areas:

Anatomy, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Bioinformatics, Biology, Biophysics, Biostatistics, Cancer, Cell Biology, Chemistry, Clinical Research, Developmental Biology, Disease-Specific Research: all aspects of diseases, including prevent, Epidemiology, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Immunology, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Physiology, Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, Structural Biology, Toxicology, Virology, Zoology, Other (specify): all aspects of maternal-fetal research

Application by invitation or nomination only?

No

Are awards limited to specific groups?

None provided

Must applicants be U.S. citizens and/or permanent residents?

No

Details:

Please refer to the website for more information http://www.smfm.org/index.cfm?zone=careers&nav=directory&fuse=viewtype

U.S. geographic limits?

Yes

Details (specify region, state or other restrictions):

AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, IA, MD, MA, MI, MS, MO, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OH, PA, RI, TN, TX, UT, VT, and WA.

Please refer to the website for more information http://www.smfm.org/index.cfm?zone=careers&nav=fellow

International geographic limits?

Institutional limits?

Yes

Details

Select institutions within AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, IA, MD, MI, MS, MO, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OH, PA, RI, TN, TX, UT, VT, and WA.

Please refer to the website for more information http://www.smfm.org/index.cfm?zone=careers&nav=fellow

Non-research activity allowed for postdoctoral and junior faculty awards?

Yes

If yes, specify at least one of the following: percentage time and activities allowed

• Activity Description:    Some institutions allow non-research related activity.

  Please refer to the website for more information http://www.smfm.org/index.cfm?zone=careers&nav=fellow

• Other eligibility requirements:   
  * All programs that select a fellow are expected to participate in the Match.

  * If a program selects a fellow outside of the Match without obtaining prior approval, that program will be subject to the following sanctions:

  o In the annual meeting scheduled approximately sixteen months after the violation (e.g., the violation occurs October 2002; affected meeting is January-February 2003), no faculty member or fellow from the offending program may present a paper (oral or poster), serve as a faculty member or judge for a scientific session, or serve as an abstract reviewer.

  o If one of the faculty members of the offending program is a member or officer of the Society's Board of Directors, he or she shall be dismissed from the Board.

  o The name of the offending program will be published on the Society's web site.

  o If a repeat offence occurs within five (5) years, the above-named sanctions will be imposed for a period of three (3) years.

  * Programs may request an exemption from the Match in special circumstances. Requests should be sent to the Assistant Secretary-Treasurer of the Society, in care of Pat Stahr's office in Washington, D.C., no latter than September 1 of the year of the Match. The request will be reviewed by three (3) members of the Board of Directors of the Society (immediate Past President, Secretary-Treasurer, and Assistant Secretary-Treasurer). Programs will be notified of the Board's decision by October 1.

  * In some instances, a program may not fill its position during the Match and then have the opportunity to recruit an individual who belatedly has decided to apply for fellowship training. In that circumstance, both the program and the applicant should notify the Assistant Secretary-Treasurer of the Board in writing of their intent.

  Please refer to the website for specific regulations for the institution where you would like to fellowship http://www.smfm.org/index.cfm?zone=careers&nav=directory&fuse=viewtype

Program competition information

• Number of Applicants in Most Recent Competition Year:   
• Number of Awards in Most Recent Competition Year:   
• Institutional Award Rates   

  Category	# Applicants	# Awards
  Institutional Awards

• Awardee's subsequent careers/accomplishments tracked after end of term?    No
  
• Total dollars awarded in the most recent competition year