Mount Sinai Clinician Scientist Training Program in Emergency Care Research

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PROJECT SUMMARY Emergency medicine lags behind other fields in the scope and depth of its research enterprise due, in part, to a lack of well-trained investigators. To address this, the Icahn School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine, ranked 4th in the U.S. in NIH funding, established the “Mount Sinai Clinician-Scientist Training Program in Emergency Care Research” (ECR) to train clinician-scientists in emergency care research. Having enrolled seven outstanding postdoctoral fellows thus far, this multidisciplinary program will now be expanded to 3 slots per year and will recruit doctoral-level applicants from health-related professions in addition to clinicians trained in the specialties involved in ECR: emergency medicine, cardiology, pulmonary, critical care, & trauma surgery. The overall aim of the program is to provide research-minded clinicians and health-related professionals with a strong foundation in the principles of clinical / health services research and the mentored research experiences necessary to: a) pursue independent careers in ECR; b) become valuable, contributing members of multidisciplinary research teams; and c) accelerate dissemination of findings and rapidly translate their research into clinical practice. Led by Lynne D. Richardson, MD, an experienced investigator and successful mentor, the program partners with Conduits – the Mount Sinai CTSA, the Center for Health Equity and Community-Engaged Research, and the Center for Multicultural and Community Affairs, as well as colleagues in Medicine, Cardiology, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care, Population Health Science & Policy, and collaborating research faculty from throughout the institution to offer a well-rounded, collaborative research training experience. Fifty faculty members from 12 departments serve as potential research mentors or as translational or methodological advisors. Key program components include: superb multidisciplinary mentorship, individual and collaborative research activities, formal didactic instruction, and career and leadership development activities. Each fellow’s Individual Development Plan includes completion of a Master’s degree in Clinical Research. Three new postdoctoral fellows will be enrolled each year for 2-3 years of training. The program, program leadership, mentors, and fellows are evaluated annually and the findings are used for program improvement. To increase the diversity of the research workforce pipeline, this training grant incorporates a Short-Term Training Program in Health Disparities Research for underrepresented minority/disadvantaged students to expose them to health disparities research in the emergency care setting. Twelve Black and Latino predoctoral students were trained over the past two summers.