About the Associate Fellowship Program

The National Library of Medicine Associate Fellowship offers an insider’s view of the world’s largest medical library.

The National Library of Medicine Associate Fellowship is:

• A one-year residency program for early and second career librarians within five years of graduation interested in advancing equitable and innovative futures for biomedical libraries.
• A program combining curriculum and project work.
• A remote fellowship hosted by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.

The Associate Fellowship provides knowledge and skills in project work:

• User engagement and training
• Collection and preservation of biomedical information
• Curation and discovery of the collection
• Coordination of health data standards, including controlled vocabularies for health information exchange and biomedical discovery
• Data and open science; and artificial intelligence

The Associate Fellowship offers opportunities for professional development through:

• Participation in lectures, exercises, attendance at a national conference, networking opportunities with other librarians
• Workshops on work style, resume review, negotiation, and presentation skills
• Mentorship from a program coordinator and NLM staff

• Annual stipend of $68,405.
• Health Insurance Supplement - The program offers a supplemental health insurance stipend for participants to purchase health insurance through a group health insurance plan via Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE). Alternatively, participants may choose to hold outside insurance.
• Full support for attendance at a national conference, and a one-week practicum at a health sciences library

Program Administrator

The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), managed and operated by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), administers this program for the National Library of Medicine through an interagency agreement with the Department of Energy.