Resident Opportunities
Resident Training Program
Many graduate medical education progams at UCSF are working to facilitate clinical and translational research opportunities for residents who plan to make research a part of their careers. CTST has established a research elective and other initiatives to help promote residents' career development. The goals are to create opportunities for all residents to gain a foundational understanding of clinical and translational research methods and evidence-based medicine skills, and to inspire and facilitate residents to pursue future opportunities for career development as investigators.
Building Skills
Designing Clinical Research for Residents and Students (Epi 150.03). This course requires 50% protected time and will be taught once a year in August in a one-month format. Modeled after the highly successful summer clinical research workshop of the Training in Clinical Research (TICR) program, the elective will lead residents through the essential components for writing a clinical research protocol, developed around their own clinical research question. The tangible product of the course is a 5-page clinical research protocol. The residents will attend bi-weekly group lectures and small resident-only seminar groups led by core faculty for the CTST resident initiative with additional faculty participating to meet resident enrollment. Learn more at the course website.
Residents pursuing ATCR with or without Departmental support should consider applying for a Resident Research Scholar Award, which provides full ATCR tuition and the opportunity for co-mentoring.
For those residents with at least one year of protected time for research, we encourage enrollment in the Advanced Training in Clinical Research Program Certificate Program (ATCR). Residents pursuing ATCR without Departmental support should consult CTST to determine the availability of tuition assistance.
Clinical and Translational Research Area of Distinction. For residents who plan to pursue research careers, the research elective or ATCR program will be supplemented by a series of Longitudinal Resident Research Seminars teaching advanced topics and providing a venue for works-in-progress presentations. Several Departments have already established on-going seminars for this purpose. CTST is working to expand access to these seminars to accommodate residents from multiple Departments and to promote co-mentoring across departments.
Residents conducting research are encouraged to present their work at the Resident Research Symposium; see below.
Building a Research Community
Resident Research Symposia
CTSI is pleased to announce the second annual UCSF Multi-disciplinary Clinical/Translational Science Research Symposium for Residents on June 2, 2009 in Millbury Union from 3-6 pm. This research symposium will provide an opportunity for residents to present their work and to develop cross-departmental collaborations.
We are delighted that this year's keynote speaker will be Dr. Diane Wara, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine. Dr. Wara is an expert on childhood immunodeficiency syndromes and her distinguished career in clinical and translational research includes significant contributions to the field of childhood AIDS. She serves as UCSF Interim Program Director of the CTSI Clinical Research Center, is past Chair of the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, and serves on the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Gene Therapy. As a key member of the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women, Dr. Wara guided the passage of numerous faculty changes for women and she was appointed the first Associate Dean for Women at a US medical school in 1991.
Application Instructions and Deadlines:
Resident abstracts will be reviewed for both oral and poster presentation. Residents are encouraged to submit projects at all stages of development, including posters already presented in another venue, and projects that are currently in-progress.
- Abstract Submission Form (Word 28KB)
- Email completed form to Jacquelyn McNaughton
- EXTENDED ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 5/8/09
For additional questions please contact Jacquelyn McNaughton.
Longitudinal Resident Research Seminars
The seminars are described above under Clinical and Translational Research Area of Distinction; however, they also play an important role in building a research community. The seminars will be supplemented by other programs designed to encourage resident participation in research, such as journal clubs, dinner programs with high profile speakers, and funds for pilot data.
Mentoring
Successful resident research training requires a significant commitment to mentoring by the home Departments. Although ATCR-trained and other qualified faculty are increasingly found in most clinical Departments, their availability is not uniform across all residency programs. CTST is committed to work with Departments and help them identify faculty development resources and build successful mentorship programs.
See also: Resident Funding