The division of Sports Medicine at the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases offer one and two-year Sports Medicine Research Fellowships for recent college graduates and medical students interested in completing one or two gap years of education in orthopaedic clinical research.

Responsibilities and daily activities include: learning how to develop a research hypothesis and to conduct a review of the literature; composing a research protocol; submitting research protocols to the Institutional Review Board for review; opportunities for patient interaction; opportunities to be mentored in a hospital clinic and research setting; learning and/or honing clinical examination skills; opportunities to observe trauma surgeries; collecting, organizing and analyzing clinical research data; preparing the results for submission for academic publication and presentation to peers. 

In addition, the student will have the opportunity to audit courses related to clinical research duties and data analysis skills at the NYU School of Medicine.

Interested individuals should contact the current research coordinator, Brian Pahk (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with any questions.