Sponsor a Summer Clinical Research Experience
for Medical Students funded by the Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program
Students participating in the short-term training experience work 8 weeks during the months of June and July with a clinical researcher and his/her team on a project. The trainee could undertake a specific activity related to one of your projects including literature review, design of data collection instruments, participation in data collection (e.g. interviews, examination, record review) or data analysis. The trainee would be expected to attend your research team meetings, meet with you on a regular weekly basis as well as interact with other members of your team. We would guide them in completing human subject research certification. They will also complete a set of readings provided by the program that will build upon the experiences they have working with you. In addition, students will be required to attend group seminars on a weekly basis during the summer months to expose them to other clinical researchers, knowledge and topics in clinical research and share their experiences working on their research projects. Each student will receive a stipend of $3500 for an 8 week experience and you as the mentor would receive $500 as salary support or for research support.
If you are interested in participating in this program as a mentor, please complete a brief online form at the Dean of Students website for summer research opportunities at http://oac.med.jhmi.edu/SummerResearch/Index.cfm.
Faculty can logon to the site using their JHED login and password. When logged in, click on the “My Positions” link on the left-hand side of the screen. Then click on the “JHH” link on the map. In the department section of the online form, please be sure to select:
“Pre-doctoral Clinical Research Training Program (PCRTP).” If you intend to complete the online form, please let our office know by sending an email to Michelle Moody at mmoody@jhu.edu. If you have mid or senior colleagues that you believe are good mentors and might also want to sponsor a student, please direct them to our website.
We would like to make you aware that the NIH defines clinical research as falling into the following three categories:
(a) Patient-oriented research. Research that is conducted with human subjects and involves material of human origin (such as tissues, specimens and cognitive phenomena) for which an investigator (or colleague) directly interacts with human subjects in an outpatient or inpatient setting to clarify a problem in human physiology, pathophysiology or disease. This area of research includes: mechanisms of human disease, therapeutic interventions, Clinical trials and Development of new technologies
(b) Epidemiologic and behavioral studies. Studies that deal with the causes, distribution, and control of disease in populations; and research in which the actions and reactions of humans (e.g. patients or health care providers) in response to external and internal stimuli are studied through observational and experimental methods.
(c) Outcomes research and health services research. A multidisciplinary field of scientific investigation that examines how people get access to health care, how much care costs, and what happens to patients as a result of this care. For clinicians and patients, outcomes research provides evidence about benefits, risks, and results of treatments so they can make more informed decisions.
