To be a trainee in the UAMS Addiction Research Training Program, participants must be a citizen or a non-citizen national of the United States or have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence at the time of appointment. Additional details on citizenship, training period, and aggregate duration of support are available in the National Institutes of Health Grants Policy Statement.
All trainees are required to pursue their research training full time, normally defined as 40 hours per week, or as specified by the sponsoring institution in accordance with its own policies. Appointments are normally made in 12-month increments, and no trainee may be appointed for less than nine months during the initial period of appointment, except with prior approval of the National Institutes of Health awarding unit, or when trainees are appointed to approved, short-term training positions.
Predoctoral trainees must have received a baccalaureate degree by the beginning date of their National Research Service Award appointment, and must be enrolled in a program leading to a doctorate in science or in an equivalent research doctoral degree program. Health-professional students who wish to interrupt their studies for a year or more to engage in full-time research training before completing their formal training programs, are also eligible.
Postdoctoral trainees must have received, as of the beginning date of the National Research Service Award appointment, a Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Dental Surgery, or comparable doctoral degree from an accredited domestic or foreign institution.
Comparable doctoral degrees include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Doctor of Chiropractic
- Doctor of Dental Medicine (or Doctor of Medicine in Dentistry)
- Doctor of Engineering
- Doctor of Naturopathy
- Doctor of Nursing Science
- Doctor of Optometry
- Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
- Doctor of Pharmacy
- Doctor of Physical Therapy
- Doctor of Podiatric Medicine
- Doctor of Psychology
- Doctor of Public Health
- Doctor of Science
- Doctor of Social Work
- Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
- Doctoral degree in nursing research
Documentation by an authorized official of the degree-granting institution certifying all degree requirements have been met prior to the beginning date of the training appointment is acceptable. Individuals in postgraduate clinical training, who wish to interrupt their studies for a year or more to engage in full-time research training before completing their formal training programs, are also eligible.
Short-term trainees must be medical students, dental students, students in other health-professional programs, or graduate students in the physical or quantitative sciences. To be eligible for short-term, predoctoral research training positions, students must have received a baccalaureate degree by the beginning date of their National Research Service Award appointment. In addition, students must be enrolled, in good standing, and must have completed at least one quarter or semester in a program leading to a clinical doctorate or a doctorate in a physical or quantitative science such as physics, mathematics, or engineering before participating in the training program. Individuals already matriculated in a formal research degree program in the health sciences, or those holding a research doctorate, a master’s degree, or a combined health-professional/research doctorate normally are not eligible for short-term training positions. Within schools of pharmacy, only individuals who are candidates for the Doctor of Pharmacy are eligible for short-term, research training positions.