Design of New Clinical Research Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）： 匹兹堡大学K-30申请的初始资金导致了我们临床研究培训计划（CRTP）的发展，该计划已成为匹兹堡大学临床研究的重要基础。我们已经培训了68名参与者，另有43人参加了通过CRTP开发的课程。这些经验和来自这些学员的反馈构成了我们竞争性续约的基础，旨在通过以下具体目标加强CRTP计划： 目标1）扩大和加强获得CRTP培训计划。我们目前的计划是针对初级教师和研究员。然而，受训者可能会更早地决定职业道路，并可能会失去临床研究界。因此，我们将为住院医师开发临床研究培训计划（ACGME批准的住院医师范围内的临床研究范围），并为医学生开发临床研究计划，临床科学家培训计划（CSTP）。CSTP将招收10名学生在一个五年的计划和额外的4居民将被接受到CRTP每年。此外，为了确保所有级别和不同临床责任的学员都能获得我们的课程，并使学员能够在场外继续学习，我们将开发一系列基于网络的课程，提供可以在不同时间和个性化节奏学习的课程组成部分。 目的2）扩大和加强CRTP课程，以满足快速变化的临床研究培训需求。我们计划的成功组成部分之一是我们能够根据学员的需求开发和修改课程，这些机制将得到加强和正式化。根据学员目前的反馈，我们的课程咨询委员会的大力支持，并与NIH路线图的建议相一致，我们将开发一个转化研究的轨道。该课程将提供必要的技能和知识，以促进对转化研究至关重要的多学科和跨学科合作，并将加强科学发现到临床实践的运动。 目标3：制定正式的指导计划。导师在培养新的调查人员方面发挥着关键作用，我们计划大力加强我们的导师活动，为导师和学员开展培训和教育活动，监测导师活动，并建立在发现问题时及早干预的机制。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The initial funding of the University of Pittsburgh's K-30 application resulted in the development of our Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP), which has become an important foundation for clinical research at the University of Pittsburgh. We have trained 68 participants and 43 other individuals have participated in courses developed through the CRTP. These experiences and the feedback from these trainees form the basis for our competitive renewal, which seeks to enhance the CRTP program through the following specific Aims: Aim 1) Expand and enhance access to the CRTP training program. Our current program is directed toward junior faculty and fellows. However, trainees may make decisions regarding career paths earlier, and may be lost to the clinical research community. Therefore, we will develop clinical research training programs for residents (a clinical research tract within the context of ACGME approved residencies) and develop a clinical research program for medical students, the Clinical Scientist Training Program (CSTP). CSTP will enroll 10 students in a five year program and additional 4 residents will be accepted into CRTP per year. Additionally, in order to assure access to our programs for trainees of all levels and with different clinical responsibilities, and to enable trainees to continue to learn while offsite, we will develop a series of web-based courses that offer components of the curriculum that can be taken at various times and at an individualized pace. Aim 2) Expand and enhance the CRTP curriculum to meet rapidly changing clinical research training needs. One of the successful components of our program has been our ability to develop and modify courses in response to trainee needs, and these mechanisms will be enhanced and formalized. Based on current feedback from trainees, strong support from our curriculum advisory committee and consistent with the recommendations of the NIH Roadmap, we will develop a tract in translational research. This track will provide skills and knowledge necessary to promote multi- and inter-disciplinary collaborations that are essential to translational research and will enhance the movement of scientific discovery to clinical practice. Aim 3) Develop a formal mentoring program. Mentors play a pivotal role in developing new investigators, and we plan to devote extensive efforts to strengthening our mentoring activities by developing training and educational activities for both mentors and mentees, monitoring of mentoring activities, and developing mechanisms to intervene early when problems are identified.