Pathway to Discovery in
Clinical and Translational Research
Course Offerings
The didactic courses for the Core Clinical and Translational Research Pathway for professional students include:
Designing Clinical Research for Students and Residents (Epi 150.03) This intensive course guides research scholars through a wide range of essential components for writing a clinical research protocol, developed around their own clinical research question. Students attend bi-weekly group lectures and small seminar groups for four weeks as well as a peer review session in the last week of the course. The course covers study questions, hypotheses, specific aims, study types, sample size estimation, power calculations and data analysis. As part of the coursework, students will complete a 5-page original study protocol. The course is offered as part of enrollment in the PACCTR Programs. Read more about the course here.
On-line self-guided modules related to clinical and translational research are available here include the following titles:
Selecting a research project and mentor
Checklist: Define goals and prep for mentor meeting
Anatomy of research
Formulating a research question
Introduction to survey research
Elements of data analysis
