TRAINING CLINICAL RESEARCHERS FOR COMMUNITY SETTINGS

这项名为“培训社区临床研究人员”（TRECOS）的提案的目的是培训临床医生进行高质量的临床研究，这些研究可以在初级保健和提供代表性人群的社区环境中进行。这项应用的领导部门是密歇根州立大学人类医学院的流行病学部门，但所有五个生物医学学院，包括骨科和兽医学院、护理学院和自然科学学院，都参与了这项工作。以社区为基础的医学和护理教育在我们的土地授予大学，使密歇根州立大学独特的地位，培养临床医生成为调查员能够发起广泛推广的临床研究。我们计划每年招收8名学员参加一个为期两年的项目，其中包括流行病学、生物统计学和研究伦理方面的核心课程；一项受监督的指导计划，为五所学院的40多名有缺陷的成员提供重大研究项目；特别研讨会系列；并且需要完成进一步的课程，以完成与临床研究相关的多个学科之一的证书课程或硕士学位。对于大多数学员，我们设想完成新开发的临床流行病学和生物统计学18学分证书课程，针对卫生专业人员，并为有效的临床研究提供必要的学术技能。该项目由流行病学系主任领导，他是一名临床医生/研究者，在开展临床研究、教授临床研究技能和让临床医生参与研究方面有着丰富的经验。我们医学教育、研究和发展办公室的一名教员也参与其中，该办公室长期以来一直是全国领先的医学教育有效性和医学教育项目评估研究中心之一。来自不同院系的教职员工，他们的研究兴趣从婴儿健康到老年人护理，包括在生殖围产期流行病学、癌症研究生物统计方法和传染病方面强大而资金充足的研究项目，都同意自愿花时间担任这项工作的导师。

The aim of this proposal, Training Clinical Researchers for Community Settings (TRECOS), is to train clinicians to conduct high quality clinical research, that can be undertaken in primary care and community settings that provide access to representative populations. The lead department for this application is the Department of Epidemiology in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University, but all five biomedical colleges, including colleges of osteopathic and veterinary medicine, nursing, and natural sciences, are participants in this effort. The community-based nature of medical and nursing education at our land-grant university makes MSU uniquely placed to train clinicians to become investigators capable of initiating broadly generalizable clinical research. We plan to enroll eight trainees per year for a two-year program which will include a core curriculum in epidemiology, biostatistics and research ethics; a supervised mentorship program providing access to more than forty faulty members in the five colleges with major research projects; a special seminar series; and a requirement for further coursework to complete a certificate program or masters degree in one of a number of disciplines relevant to clinical research. For most trainees, we envision completion of a newly developed 18-credit certificate program in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, aimed at health professionals, and which provides the academic skills necessary for effective clinical research. The program is led by the Chair of the Department of Epidemiology, who is a clinician/investigator with considerable experience in developing clinical research, in teaching clinical research skills and in involving clinicians in research. Also involved is a faculty member from our Office of Medical Education, Research and Development, long one of the nation's leading centers of research in medical education effectiveness and evaluation of medical educational programs. Faculty members from a wide variety of departments, with research interests ranging from infant health to care of the elderly, and including strong and well-funded research programs in reproductive perinatal epidemiology, cancer research biostatistical methods and communicable diseases have agreed to volunteer their time to serve as mentors in this effort.