Apply for the 2019-2020 NLM Associate Fellowship Program

The National Library of Medicine Associate Fellowship Program is a one-year residency program for recent library science graduates interested in a career in health sciences librarianship. The program combines curriculum and project work and is located at the National Library of Medicine on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. The Program offers a formal curriculum with exposure to library operations, research and development, intramural and extramural research, development and lifecycle of the NLM web-based products and services, and the extensive outreach and education program reaching consumers, special populations, health professionals and librarians. In the second half of the year, Associate Fellows have the opportunity to choose projects based on real-world problems proposed by library divisions and work with librarians and library staff over a six-seven month period. Successful projects have led to peer-review publications and to services that have become a regular part of the services and product of the National Library of Medicine. The Associate Fellowship provides knowledge and skills in project work ranging from: Fundamentals of data science, and projects in data wrangling, data analysis, data visualization, programming, and data policy Creation of online tutorials and educational videos, conducting user needs assessments Development of an in-depth understanding of the development, production, implementation of NLM product and ser...
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