Table 1. Themes and summarised learning objectives of each week of the fellowship.

Week	Title	Learning outcomes
1	Doing good, clinical medicine and considering your impact	1. Consider what it means to do good and different philosophical frameworks for considering ‘good’ and ‘impact’ 2. Introduce the importance-tractability-neglect framework and discuss what some of its strengths and limitations are 3. Consider medical research as a way of addressing some of the world’s most pressing problems
2	Global Health	1. Explore global health and development and some of the most important areas within it 2. Evaluate the suitability of global health as a cause area for doctors to work on 3. Explore how to contribute to global health as doctors and medical students
3	Health policy	1. Introduce health policy, discuss its importance and some of its limitations 2. Discuss different roles medics can play in health policy 3. Explore the concepts career capital and credibility and how they lend credence to doctors being involved in health policy advocacy and activism 4. Explore how to contribute health policy with examples
4	Biosecurity	1. Introduce the risks posed by novel emerging pathogens in the past and future 2. Explore the threat biotechnology may pose e.g. through bioweapons or research accidents 3. Explore work mitigating these threats on levels of molecular research and public health 4. Consider health security and biosecurity in the context of global catastrophic risks 5. Explore how to contribute to biosecurity as doctors and medical students
5	Technology in Medicine	1. Introduction to artificial intelligence and machine learning and the current status of medical artificial intelligence 2. Discuss some particular promising areas of technology in medicine, including: applications of medical technology in low resource settings, telemedicine 3D printing 3. Explore some of the major roadblocks to adoption of novel medical technologies, and some of the reasons you may or may not want to get more involved in this cause area. 4. Explore how to contribute to technology in medicine as doctors and medical students
6	Mental health, wellbeing and chronic pain	1. Introduce mental health, wellbeing, and chronic pain and explore why they might be high impact cause areas 2. Explore the global burden of mental health problems and of chronic pain, metrics for subjective wellbeing and happiness as well as interventions in both areas and their potential effectiveness 3. Consider how to go about identifying potential cause areas in general, and how to find which interventions are the highest priority in each
7	Effective giving and earning to give	1. Discuss the idea that charities can differ significantly in their cost-effectiveness, and introduce charities that may have higher impact 2. Consider our personal cause prioritisation in how we choose to spend our money and how/ why that may differ from our cause prioritisation in how we spend our time 3. Consider the idea of giving effectively—what is it, how much could we give and where; how one can ‘earn to give’ and whether one should 4. Introduce the concept of value drift and discuss giving pledges [39]
8	Capstones and next steps	1. Write a short report (capstone project) on something that the fellowship has made you excited to explore more or think about in your career and present it to the other fellows in your group 2. Reflect on the fellowship; medicine; personal fit for different career opportunities & next steps