Timely, effective and innovative clinical and translational research requires health scientists rigorously trained in the intersections between basic science, clinical practice, and population health. The goal of CTST is to enhance clinical and translational research training and career development throughout UCSF. Originally funded by K30, Roadmap K12 and Roadmap T32 awards from NIH, the CTST program coordinates numerous didactic courses and mentored research programs that have trained more than 700 junior faculty, fellows, residents, and professional students over the past 5 years.
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CTST components:
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Training in Clinical Research (TICR) offers a broad array of educational opportunities for junior faculty, fellows, and postdoctoral health science students. TICR is comprised of 27 graduate level courses in three major educational programs: The Summer Clinical Research Workshop (with 132 students enrolled in 2006-7); the 1-year Advanced Training in Clinical Research Certificate Program (ATCR, 26 students); and the 2-year Master of Advanced Studies in Clinical Research (MAS-CR, 30 students). In addition to these three educational programs, we advertise each quarter to the entire campus the opportunity to take individual courses “a la carte”, and we offer free grantwriting courses 3 times a year. A recent follow-up of our first class of master’s degree graduates revealed that all 11 have salaried faculty positions, with an average of 9.7 peer-reviewed publications (4.1 as first author) in the two years since graduation.
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The CTSA KL2 Scholars career development awards provide training, mentoring, infrastructure and protected time for junior faculty to pursue multidisciplinary clinical research. Clinical research is defined broadly, and includes translational research, patient-oriented research, clinical trials, epidemiologic research, and outcomes research. The program includes a master's degree in clinical research for those who do not have such training, a supportive environment, start-up research funds, 1/2 day each week of work-in-progress seminars, and access to core faculty who provide expertise and guidance in research design, measurement and questionnaire methods, study coordination, data management, statistical analysis, publishing and presenting research, and grant writing. In 2007 the KL2 program is in its third year and has 31 scholars--22 with salary from the CTSA KL2 program and 9 with salary from K23’s and other K12 sources.
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The Resident Training Program was created to meet needs revealed in campus-wide surveys of residents and of residency program directors. A one-month intensive version of the Designing Clinical Research course will be presented twice during 2007-8, scheduled to optimize convenience across residency programs. Each resident will produce a 5-page protocol for a feasible research project or pilot study. The program will also organize an interdepartmental Resident Research Symposium, fund an annual competition for funding to support pilot studies, and create a school-wide resident research website.
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The Pathways to Careers in Clinical and Translational Research (PACCTR) program fosters the incorporation of clinical research training in the core curriculum of all medical, dental, nursing and pharmacy pre-doctoral students. PACCTR includes (1) the CTST TL 1 program, which supports students from all four UCSF schools for 2-month, 3-month and one-year fellowships in clinical and translational research; and (2) the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Research Fellowship program which supports UCSF and other U.S. medical students for one-year research fellowships at UCSF and abroad. UCSF medical students participating in the one-year program will be asked to write a thesis based on their work and will graduate with an “MD with Thesis” designation. These fellowships are designed to stimulate students to develop careers in clinical and translational research.
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Highlights
May 19, 2008 Application deadline for NEW Clinical and Translational Science K-scholars (CTSK) Program. Read More.
For more information:
Contact: Chris Ireland
Deputy Director, CTST.
Email: cireland@psg.ucsf.edu
Apply for Fellowships & Courses:
Training in Clinical Research (TICR)
CTSA K12 Scholars Program
Resident Training Program
Pathways to Careers in Clinical and Translational Research (PACCTR)
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