CORE CURRICULUM

Electives (2)
• Current Issues in Health Policy
• Decision Analysis and Clinical Research
• Ethical Basis of Practice of Public Health
• Implementing preventions
• Linear and longitudinal progression
• Medical Informatics
• Quality Improvement in Health Care
• Research with large databases
• Survey of Methods and Applications in Health Services
• Advanced analytical issues and clinical epidemiology
• Principles of Clinical Trials
• Survival Methods in Clinical Research

2. Institutional Review Board Quarterly Seminars.
a. What does the IRB really want? How to write a human studies protocol.
b. IRB issues for the bench and desk scientists
c. How to write a Research Consent form that subjects understand.
d. Who tells the IRB what to do? The effect of regulations, guidance, and case law.

3. Effective writing seminars.
a. Grant writing
b. Scientific writing

4. Other institutional seminars.
a. Accountability in clinical investigations: lessons from the archives of clinical research.
b. Budgeting for industry-sponsored clinical trials
c. Developing standard operating procedures for clinical research
d. Research patients data registry – RPDR
e. How to give a presentation.
f. Human Genetics in clinical investigation.

5. Basic and Translational Research Exposure
a. Weekly seminars in basic and translational science
b. Hands on exchange program