Designing Clinical Research for Residents
Course Director: Jeff Kohlwes, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
October 3-26, 2011
| OVERVIEW |
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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.
Please follow instructions for enrollment below.
| OBJECTIVES |
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1. Understand study design, data analysis
and management, sample size calculations, and power calculations.
2. Understand the inferences that may be drawn from
findings of clinical research studies.
3. Draft a five-page clinical research protocol for
use in their proposed research projects.
4. Provide peer review and be able to helpfully critique
their co-learners' protocols.
| PREREQUISITES |
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Must be a clinical resident.
Must have consent of instructor and residency program director.
Must provide a research question they will work on and the name
of a mentor with whom they will work.
| FACULTY & STAFF |
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FORMAT
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Lectures: 9-10:15 AM on October 3, 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, and 24
Small Groups: 10:30-Noon, following the lectures each day
Final Peer Review Session: October 26
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TEXTBOOK
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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 |
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Students are expected to attend all lectures 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.
| ASSIGNMENTS |
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See syllabus for reading assignments.
| ENROLLMENT |
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PLEASE APPLY EARLY AS SPACE IS LIMITED. APPLICATIONS WILL BE SELECTED ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS. APPLICATIONS ARE DUE BY SEPTEMBER 23, 2011.
Application (Word doc, 20KB)
Please fax your application form to Olivia DeLeon at 415-514-8150.
COST: The course fee is waived for UCSF Residents. Residents from other institutions are required to pay the $2770 course fee.
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