Clinical Research Curriculum Award

描述（由申请人提供）：为了满足康涅狄格大学（包括康州大学健康中心和大哈特福德地区的其他医疗机构）培训临床和转化研究人员的需求，在Anne Kenny医学博士的指导下开发并实施了临床和转化研究（MCTR）理学硕士课程。2008年，MCTR获得了康涅狄格州高等教育委员会的认证。MCTR提供了一个跨学科的课程，整合了教师和跨地区校园的资源，为教育工作提供教育资源，并促进公认的学术部门之间的合作。MCTR的开发直接响应了培训临床和翻译研究人员骨干的需求。该应用程序旨在扩大和改善在康州大学健康中心开始的工作，建立了康涅狄格州临床和转化研究所，该研究所拥有教育核心，MCTR的父实体。该应用程序的目标是：提供跨学科的研究培训，使用临床和转化研究的概念化，设计和性能，每年教育五到七名临床科学家（CICATS学者）。这些人将准备在临床和转化研究领域担任学者，研究人员，教育工作者，领导者和管理人员;完善和扩展新开发和认可的临床和转化研究理学硕士（MCTR）的核心课程;开发两门新课程，用于T1和T2研究的方法和方法，作为MTCR的选修课;完善和获得新开发的在线介绍临床研究课程的研究生水平认证，该课程旨在为需要概述临床研究的早期研究者提供服务;开发和实施新的创新课程，以培训导师为学生提供建议所需的技能，并促进他们在转化研究中的职业生涯，并协助指导技能发展;实施严格的评估程序，以指导和通报教育计划的变更或修改。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In response to the need to train clinical and translational investigators at the University of Connecticut, including the UConn Health Center and other healthcare institutions in the Greater Hartford area, a Master of Science in Clinical and Translational Research (MCTR) curriculum was developed and implemented under the direction of Anne Kenny, MD, an established, funded clinical investigator. In 2008 the MCTR received accreditation from the Connecticut State Board of Higher Education. The MCTR offers an inter-disciplinary curriculum that integrates faculty and consolidates resources across area campuses, provides educational resources to the educational effort, and promotes collaboration among recognized academic departments. The MCTR was developed in direct response to the need for training a cadre of clinical and translational investigators. This application is designed to expand and improve on work begun at the UConn Health Center with the establishment of the Connecticut Institute of Clinical and Translational Research, which houses the Education Core, the parent entity for the MCTR. The goal of this application is to: provide interdisciplinary research training using the conceptualization, design, and performance of clinical and translational research to educate five-to-seven clinical scientists (CICATS Scholars) per year. These individuals will be prepared to work as scholars, researchers, educators, leaders, and administrators in the field of clinical and translational research; refine and expand the core curriculum in the newly developed and accredited Master of Science in Clinical and Translational Research (MCTR);develop two new courses in the approach and methods used in T1 and T2 research to be used as electives in the MTCR; refine and gain graduate-level accreditation for the newly developed online Introduction to Clinical Research course, a course geared to serve early investigators who require an overview of clinical research; develop and implement a new and innovative curriculum to train mentors in the skills necessary to advise students and further their careers in translational research and to assist with mentoring skill development; implement a rigorous evaluation process to guide and inform change or modification to the education plans.