Training and Education-Updated for 2007

The GCRC provides a variety of educational resources for interested clinicians. The Clinical Research Training Course is offered each year from February to March to students, fellows and faculty of New York University School of Medicine. Young physicians and professionals are encouraged to take this course if they are interested in a career in clinical research. The course outline is as follows:

• Evaluation of a Hypothesis
• Issues in Study Design
• Clinical Trial Development Phase I
• Clinical Outcome Studies
• Clinical Trial Development Phase II & III
• Statistical Methods I
• Statistical methods II
• Grant Funding
• IRB
• Biomedical Informatics
• Human Subject Protection
• Cultural Competency
• Relations with Industry
• How to Survive an Audit: GCP & Research Compliance
• Translational Research: Bench to Bedside
• Managing Clinical Data & HIPPA
• Conflict of Interest

In addition to participating in the didactic sessions, each registrant is encouraged to design a clinical trial in accordance with the principles learned. Rapid, constructive feedback is provided by the course instructors.

click here to see a list of dates and lecturers.

The lecture material for the 2007 course session is available online. To obtain access:

1. Contact the course administrator and provide your kerberos id to register as a user: Course Administrator
2. Wait for notification of successful registration.
3. Once you have been registered, click here to see access the login page.
4. Use your kerberos id and password to login.
   GCRC Research Training should be available as a tab on your Courses navigation bar.

There are also funded training opportunities:

• K23 program supports mentored patient-oriented research career development
• Clinical Research Feasibility Funds (CReFF)
• Mentored Medical Student Clinical Research Program (MMSCR)

Any investigator who conducts research on the GCRC must have taken the mandatory tutorial for the protection of human subjects. The tutorial can be accessed at http://humantest.med.nyu.edu.

The Department of Medicine has established a research program for medical housestaff with sufficient time given to house officers to participate in patient-oriented research in the laboratories and research projects of faculty. A mentoring program is provided for interested residents directed by Alan Charney, MD. A webbased listing of research projects is available at http://www.resweb.med.nyu.edu, linked to the GCRC website.

Monthly grand rounds are co-sponsored with many departments and divisions. Investigators are encouraged to attend. A list of seminars can be found at http://calendar.med.nyu.edu.

The GCRC Nurse Manager with the assistance of the GCRC Informatics Core Manager established the Association of Research Coordinators, ARC. ARC was created to provide a forum for research nurses and study coordinators to meet at an institutional level, discuss pertinent issues in clinical research and attempt to facilitate and improve the conduct of clinical research at NYU School of Medicine. A web page (http://arc.med.nyu.edu) and an email list have been developed to support the educational activities of this organization.