Research fellowship in a Lebanese academic medical center: What does it take to shift from an informal to a formal program?

• Marlene Chakhtoura,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Research Institute, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Elsa Karam,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Clinical Research Institute, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9251-1809

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• Elie A. Akl,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Research Institute, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Rola El Rassi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Clinical Research Institute, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Gladys Honein-AbouHaidar

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gh30@aub.edu.lb

  Affiliation Hariri School of Nursing, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6208-7859

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