Your Input Requested: Help us Identify Potential Applicants for UCSF’s Submission to NIH for a Career Development Program

March 09, 2010
Focus on Comparative Effectiveness Research  View the Mid-Career and Early Investigator programs below – and let us know:
  • Would you be interested in participating in one of these programs?
  • If interested, please forward a Biosketch to Juliana Fung [email protected]
  • Input Deadline: Monday, March 15, 2010
Program 1 - Mid-career clinical investigators program:
  • Focused training in CER methods and analysis
  • Research support: 30% salary support and $25,000 research support
  • Enrollment: for 1-year, beginning January 2011
Program 2 - Early clinical investigators program:
  • Research support: 60% salary support and $25,000, including completing a Masters Degree in Clinical Research through the TICR program
  • Eligibility: Participants with a minimum foundation of clinical research training as represented by the 1-year ATCR program (or its equivalent)
  • Enrollment: 2-year program, beginning September 2011
Resource support for lead mentors: $5000 each General training objectives: 1. Expand scholar’s knowledge of clinical research principles, concepts and methods, particularly as they relate to CER: Scholars will tailor their didactic coursework based on their previous training and participate in a new CER analytical methods course. Additional required courses in the CER KM1 program—if not already completed—will include:
  • Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
  • Performance and health outcome measurement (Epi 211)
  • Cost and decision analysis (Epi 213)
  • Introduction to translating evidence into practice (Epi 245)
  • Externship with stakeholder organizations
2. Gain intensive experience in conducting, presenting and critiquing state-of-the-art CER; obtained through weekly works-in-progress seminars 3. Address top CER research priorities, as articulated by the IOM report; achieved through candidate application and selection process. 4. Conduct translational CER that addresses the needs of community stakeholders; achieved through external rotations with stakeholder organizations.