Research Education, Training, and Career Development (RETCD) Core
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
Master of Science in Clinical and Translational Science (K30
Clinical Research Training Program).
The Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP) was funded by the NIH
in September 2005 using the K30 Curriculum Development funding
mechanism. The program enrolled its first class in Fall 2006.
Twenty trainees, from ten disciplines, including pharmacy and
several medical and surgical specialties, are enrolled in the K30
program for the 2008-2009 Academic Year. The program, which grants
an MS degree, is designed to provide clinicians with the skills
they need to become CT researchers, including study design,
biostatistics, epidemiology, ethics, and statistical computing.
Students participate in a series of workshops and carry out a
mentored research project that culminates in a publishable paper
and a grant application both based on the results of the mentored
research project. Feedback from the trainees after the first two
years of the program is very encouraging with several already using
the research skills they have acquired to begin to develop research
programs. For example, one trainee, a clinical pharmacist working in
a transplant unit, is developing the research infrastructure to study
fungal infections in immuno-compromised patients.
For further details visit:
www.crtp.uic.edu.
