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Designing Clinical Research for Residents and Students
EPI 150.03 Summer 2009
(2 units)


OVERVIEW

This course guides research scholars through the essential components for writing a clinical research protocol, developed around their own clinical research question. The students will attend bi-weekly group lectures and small seminar groups for four weeks as well as a peer review session in the last week of the course. The course will cover study questions, hypotheses, specific aims, study types, sample size estimation, power calculations, and data analysis. Small groups will be developed separately for pre-doctoral students and clinical trainees (residents). Please follow instructions for enrollment below.

OBJECTIVES

1. Participants will understand study design, data analysis and management, sample size calculations, and power calculations.
2. Participants will understand the inferences that may be drawn from findings of clinical research studies.
3. Participants will draft a five-page clinical research protocol for use in their proposed research projects.
4. Participants will provide peer review and be able to helpfully critique their co-learners' protocols.

PREREQUISITES
  • Must be a dental, medical, nursing, or pharmacy student, or be serving as a postgraduate clinical trainee, e.g., Resident.

  • Must have consent of instructor and training program supervisor.

  • Must provide a Research Question they will work on and the name of a mentor with whom they will work.
  • FACULTY & STAFF

    Course Director:

    Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD
    email: bibbinsk@medicine.ucsf.edu

    Co-Director:

    Douglas Bauer, MD
    email: dbauer@psg.ucsf.edu

    Resident Section Leaders:

    Douglas Bauer, MD
    email: dbauer@psg.ucsf.edu

     

    Jeff Kohlwes, MD
    email: jeffk@medicine.ucsf.edu

     

    Miriam Kuppermann, PhD, MPH
    email:kuppermannm@obgyn.ucsf.edu

     

    Emily von Scheven, MD, MAS
    email: evonsche@peds.ucsf.edu

    Student Section Leaders:

    Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD
    email: bibbinsk@medicine.ucsf.edu

    Lisa Brown, MD
    email: lisa.brown@ucsfmedicalcenter.org

    Helen Kim, PhD, MPH
    email: kimhel@anesthesia.ucsf.edu

    Kala Mehta, DSc
    email: Kala.Mehta@ucsf.edu

    Laura Plantinga
    email:

    Rachel Whitmer, PhD
    email: rachel.whitmer@kp.org


    FORMAT

    Lectures: 9-10:15 AM on August 3, 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, 24, 26 and final peer review session required on Friday, August 28.
    Small Groups: 10:30-Noon, following the lectures each day.

    TEXTBOOK

    Designing Clinical Research by S. Hulley et al. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 3rd Edition. 2006.

    Take NIH Certification on-line for Human Subject Protections: Basic Course https://www.researchonline.ucsf.edu/

    GRADING

    Students are expected to attend all classes and small groups with only ONE excused absence permitted. Participation in small groups, completion of reading assignments and problems on a daily basis, and final submission of completed protocol are minimum requirements for a passing grade (Honors-Pass-Fail option only).

    ASSIGNMENTS

    See syllabus for reading assignments.

    ENROLLMENT

    PLEASE APPLY EARLY AS SPACE IS LIMITED. APPLICATIONS FOR SUMMER 2009 ARE DUE BY JULY 10, 2009.

    Please don't forget that to complete your enrollment, you must also fill out the payment form (15KB Word doc), sign it and fax it to Olivia DeLeon at 415-514-8150.

    Note to Residents: Epi 150.03 is offered free of charge for UCSF residents. Support for residents is provided by the Clinical and Translational Science Training (CTST) Resident Research Program. When you submit the payment form for this course please indicate on the form "tuition covered by CTST".