The PACCTR Program supports clinical research training for medical, dental, nursing and pharmacy pre-doctoral students for short-term (two or three month) and intensive (one-year or two-year) fellowships. The short-term fellowships provide an introduction to clinical research and stimulate the student to acquire further training in clinical research — ideally an intensive fellowship — before graduation. The intensive research fellowships provide a more detailed exposure to clinical research and are designed to stimulate the students to take one of the K fellowships after further clinical training. Medical students participating in the one-year program write a thesis based on their work and graduate with an "MD with Thesis" designation. Students participating in the two-year program are awarded a Masters in Clinical Research degree.

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Contact

Program Coordinator
Cecily Hunter
cecily.hunter@ucsf.edu
185 Berry Street 5700
Box 0560
San Francisco, CA
    94143-0560
415-514-8021

PACCTR Brochure

PACCTR Leadership and Committees

Goals

• To increase awareness of clinical research among all students to prepare them to optimally utilize emerging clinical research data throughout their professional career

• To provide outstanding didactic training to PACCTR students through the existing array of clinical research training resources at UCSF, including the K-30 and Roadmap-K12 programs

• To provide a practicum research experience that uses their newly acquired knowledge in clinical research design. We achieve this by:

• fostering relationships with experienced mentors from different disciplines

• ensuring appropriate research settings with access to clinical populations, existing databases and specimen banks, and scientific and administrative infrastructure

• offering access to core methodology experts in study design and coordination, social and behavioral sciences, data management and statistics, and a support group of peers in offices in a Shared Clinical Research Support Facility

• To enhance the existing core curriculum in clinical research for all UCSF students with a combination of PACCTR-sponsored small group sessions and web-based learning tools; and to foster sharing of ideas, resources and faculty across schools for this purpose

NIH Funding Acknowledgment

This publication was made possible by Grant Number: 1 TL1 RR 024129 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of NCRR of NIH. Information on NCRR is available at http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/. Information on Re-engineering the Clinical Research Enterprise can be obtained from http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/clinicalresearch/overview-translational.asp.