A Curriculum for Clinical Research Training in Vermont

描述（由申请人提供）： 该项目的总体目标是通过提高临床研究的数量和质量来改善美国人的健康。 我们寻求通过在佛蒙特大学开发临床研究课程来实现这一目标，以有效和高效地将临床医生和其他年轻学者转变为成功的独立临床研究者。 我们的具体目标是：制定一个为期两年的教学课程，严格的技能培训;召集一个多学科的咨询委员会，招募和选择临床研究员，并评估和领导该计划;选择精力充沛，聪明，诚实，勤奋的临床医生和其他年轻学者;确保足够的保护时间来学习和做研究;培训导师，并为每个临床研究员分配一个;让临床研究员参与调查的支持性环境;持续评估该计划。 教学计划将包括每年提供的五门课程和三项正在进行的活动，以便临床研究员可以在两年内完成核心课程：设计临床研究-研究设计，流行病学和方案编写;进行临床研究-伦理，法律的问题和研究管理;分析临床研究-描述性和假设检验生物统计学;临床研究的多元方法-线性和逻辑回归和生存分析;报告临床研究-摘要，海报，平台演示，研讨会和文章;临床研究研讨会-教师和访客介绍方法和结果;临床研究研讨会-研究员指导的演示;指导-与训练有素的顾问和导师的结构化关系。 我们预计将在一年内开始全面运作。 我们的目标是每年至少有5至10名临床研究员和50名来自医学中心各部门的其他参与者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of this project is to improve the health of Americans by improving the quantity and quality of clinical research. We seek to accomplish this by developing a curriculum in clinical research at the University of Vermont to effectively and efficiently transform clinicians and other young academics into successful independent clinical investigators. Our specific aims are to: Develop a two-year didactic curriculum of rigorous skills training; Convene a multidisciplinary Advisory Board to recruit and select Clinical Research Fellows and evaluate and lead the program; Select energetic, intelligent, honest, and hardworking clinicians and other young academics; Ensure adequate protected time to study and do research; Train mentors and assign one to each Clinical Research Fellow; Engage the Clinical Research Fellows in a supportive environment of inquiry; Evaluate the program on an ongoing basis. The didactic program will consist of five courses and three ongoing activities offered each year so that Clinical Research Fellows may complete the core curriculum in two years: Designing Clinical Research - Research design, epidemiology and protocol writing; Conducting Clinical Research - Ethics, legal issues, and the management of research; Analyzing Clinical Research - Descriptive and hypothesis testing biostatistics; Multivariate Methods for Clinical Research - Linear and logistic regression and survival analysis; Reporting Clinical Research - Abstracts, posters, platform presentations, seminars, and articles; Seminars in Clinical Research - Faculty and visitor presentations of methods and results; Workshop in Clinical Research - Fellow-directed presentations; Mentoring - A structured relationship with a trained advisor and mentor. We expect to be fully operational within one year of starting. Our goal is to have at least 5 to 10 Clinical Research Fellows and 50 other participants from all Departments of the Medical Center in each year.