TRAINING CLINICAL RESEARCHERS FOR COMMUNITY SETTINGS

该提案的目的是为社区环境培训临床研究人员（TRECOS），旨在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社区环境中进行，为代表性人群提供服务。 这项申请的牵头部门是密歇根州立大学人类医学学院的流行病学系，但所有五所生物医学学院，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。在我们的赠地大学的医疗和护理教育的社区为基础的性质，使MSU独特的定位，以培养临床医生成为调查人员能够启动广泛推广的临床研究。我们计划每年招收8名学员参加为期两年的课程，其中包括流行病学、生物统计学和研究伦理学的核心课程;一个有监督的导师计划，为五个有重大研究项目的学院的40多名错误成员提供机会;一个特别的研讨会系列;并要求进一步的课程，以完成证书课程或硕士学位，在一个相关的临床研究的一些学科。 对于大多数学员，我们设想完成一个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，并提供有效的临床研究所需的学术技能。该计划由流行病学系主任领导，他是一名临床医生/研究人员，在开发临床研究，教授临床研究技能和让临床医生参与研究方面具有丰富的经验。 参与其中的还有我们医学教育、研究和发展办公室的一名教员，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。 来自各个部门的教师，从婴儿健康到老年人护理的研究兴趣，包括生殖围产期流行病学，癌症研究生物统计方法和传染病的强大和资金充足的研究计划，都同意志愿他们的时间作为导师在这方面的努力。

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.