Clinical Research Curriculum Award

描述（由申请人提供）：为了满足康涅狄格大学（包括康涅狄格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提供跨学科的课程，整合教师和整合跨地区校园的资源，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的制定直接响应了培训临床和转化研究人员骨干的需求。该应用程序旨在扩展和改进康涅狄格大学健康中心开展的工作，该中心建立了康涅狄格临床和转化研究所，该研究所拥有教育核心，即MCTR的母实体。这项申请的目标是：提供跨学科的研究培训，使用临床和转化研究的概念化、设计和表现，每年培养5到7名临床科学家（CICATS学者）。这些人将准备作为临床和转化研究领域的学者，研究人员，教育工作者，领导者和管理人员工作；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；开设两门关于T1和T2研究中使用的方法和方法的新课程，作为MTCR的选修课；完善并获得新开发的在线临床研究入门课程的研究生水平认证，该课程旨在为需要临床研究概述的早期研究人员提供服务；制定和实施一项新的创新课程，以培训导师必要的技能，为学生提供建议，并进一步发展他们在翻译研究中的职业生涯，并协助指导技能的发展；实施严格的评估过程，以指导和通知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.