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Clinical Research Training Center (CRTC)
Description
The Clinical Research Training Center (CRTC) provides a cohesive and supportive infrastructure
to foster clinical research training and career development for predoctoral students, house-staff,
postdoctoral fellows and faculty. Active mentoring, hands on research experiences and formal didactic
programs in clinical research methods leading to a certificate or Masters Degree in Clinical Investigation
are core components of the program. The CRTC represents a paradigm shift in the approach to clinical
research training for ICTS institutional partners by formally integrating dozens of diverse training
programs into a single location and administrative umbrella.
The mission of the CRTC is to provide outstanding clinical and translational research training.
This is accomplished by:
- integrating and enhancing existing training programs
- developing new clinical and translational courses
- promoting multidisciplinary team training
- developing new career development programs
- providing improved evaluation and tracking for all training programs
- providing mechanisms and infrastructure for sharing best practices, including educational resources
and materials, curriculums, evaluation materials, minority recruitment strategies and materials to track
trainees, mentors, faculty, and the training programs
Additional training will be developed to address the broad spectrum of both levels of translational
research (bench to bedside and bedside to community) including issues of Good Clinical Practice, investigator
sponsored vs. industry sponsored studies, entrepreneurial issues of intellectual property development,
recruitment and retention of research study participants, understanding and overcoming cultural barriers,
methods of community based research, and reducing health disparities.
Current research training programs include:
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Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Award (KL2)
The Career Development Award is aimed at fellows, post-doctoral scholars, and junior faculty committed
to multidisciplinary clinical research. The program provides generous financial support and benefits
that allow scholars to focus on didactic studies and clinical research to further their career goals
and to make independent contributions to clinical and translational science.
Mentored Training Program and Clinical Investigation Curriculum (K30)
The Mentored Training Program and Clinical Investigation Curriculum provides career development for
investigators through didactic coursework and electives, mentored training, work-in-progress research
seminars, and a Master of Science program in Clinical Investigation
Predoctoral Program in Clinical Investigation (TL1)
The Predoctoral Program in Clinical Investigation provides career development for medical and allied
healthcare students through didactic coursework, mentored training, work-in-progress research discussions,
journal clubs and conferences.
Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship Program
The Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship Program provides funds to support medical students to
participate in didactic coursework and hands-on clinical research training during an additional year
of medical school. The program provides an individualized and in-depth experience in clinical research
Services Available to ICTS Members
Research Design Incubator (RDI)
The purpose of the RDI is to provide guidance and assistance to trainees on research design, administration,
data collection, data management and statistical analysis. This support is provided in collaboration with the
Research Design and Biostatistics Group.
- Weekly Research Scholar Seminar Series
- Weekly Faculty Research Seminars
- Annual Research Symposium
- Annual Research Meeting
- Annual National CTSA Education Group Research Meeting in Washington DC