Clinician Investigator Program
Get ready for a research career
Are you a surgical resident interested in pursuing a graduate degree during your training? If so, you may want to consider applying to the Dalhousie’s Clinician Investigator Program (CIP).
This Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada-accredited training program will add the specialized knowledge and skill you need to pursue a career as a clinician-scientist or a clinical investigator. Upon completion, you’ll also receive:
- Royal College certification
- an “Attestation of Completion,” signed by the CIP Director and the Associate Dean of Medicine
Is this program for me?
To be considered for acceptance, you must:
- be an MD enrolled in a Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons specialty or subspecialty in the Dalhousie Postgraduate Medical Education Program
- be willing to enroll in a Dalhousie-approved MSc or PhD program, if you do not already hold a graduate degree
Timeline
- If you are interested in applying to CIP, you should get in touch with the Surgery Research Office Administrator Elaine Marsh (elaine.marsh@dal.ca) early in your residency to identify a supervisor and establish a plausible research project.
- Funding award applications are due to the Surgery Research Office in the fall.
The Department of Surgery prioritizes resident research with both salary and tuition fee awards.
Find out more
Current CIP participants
Philippe Tremblay | Cardiac Surgery | MSc |
Sam Jessula | General Surgery | MSc |
Catherine Deshaies | Cardiac Surgery | MSc |
Ashely Drohan | General Surgery | MSc |
Aaron Robichaud | Neurosurgery | MSc |
Richard Liu | General Surgery |
MSc |
Amanda Murphy |
Plastic Surgery | MSc |
Scott Hurton | General Surgery | MSc |
David Brandman | Neurosurgery | PhD |
Past CIP participants
Gavin Tansley | General Surgery | MSc | 2016 |
Phil Magown | Neurosurgery | PhD | 2014 |
Christine Herman | Cardiac Surgery | MSc | 2012 |
Phil Davis | General Surgery | MSc | 2012 |
Jon Bailey | General Surgery | MSc | 2012 |
Scott Livingston | General Surgery | MSc | 2011 |
Matthew Smith | General Surgery | MSc | 2011 |
Lindsay MacDonald | General Surgery | MSc | 2011 |
Paul Yaffe | General Surgery | MSc | 2010 |
Devon Richardson | General Surgery | MSc | 2009 |
Jane Watson | General Surgery | MSc | 2008 |
Mike Bezuhly | Plastic Surgery | MSc | 2008 |
Lara Williams | General Surgery | MSc | 2007 |
Dimitri Kalvrousiotis | Cardiac Surgery | MSc | 2007 |
Ansar Hassan | General Surgery |
PhD | 2007 |
Phil Barnsley | Plastic Surgery | MSc | 2003 |
Anton Skaro | General Surgery | PhD |
2002 |
James Ellsmere | General Surgery | MSc | 2002 |
Daniel Wong | Cardiac Surgery | MSc | 2002 |
Paul Johnson | General Surgery | MSc | 2001 |
Rakesh Arora | Cardiac Surgery | PhD | 2001 |
Jean-Francois Legare | Cardiac Surgery | MSc |
2000 |
Sean Christie | Neurosurgery | PhD | 2000 |
Wey Liang | General Surgery | MSc | 1998 |