Clinical and Translational Science (CTS)

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor An overview of basic elements of grants management including Budget Preparation and Management, Managing human subjects and animal research, regulatory and intellectual Property Issues, Selecting and Managing Staff, Professional Etiquette, and Assembling a Project Operations Manual. Course content will be delivered online and evaluation will be through online exercises at the end of each module.

Prerequisites: Permission of the Instructor This course prepares students to understand translational research concepts and identify problems that can be solved by translation from bench to clinic to community and vic versa. Definition and range of translational research areas and identification of problems requiring non-traditional research methods are addressed. Pioneering local translational research is experienced.

Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor This course will prepare the graduate student to understand and apply principles and methods in clinical research. Topics that will be addressed include qualitative research methods, observational clinical research studies, and clinical trials. Aspects of design, conduct, informatics, analysis, and reporting will be stressed.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Certificate in CTS program. This course prepares students for a research practicum experience. The student develops their professional goals and uses these to develop a practicum proposal. The course includes an overview of responsible conduct of research and ethics in human and animal research, grant writing, manuscript writing, community engagement, and health disparities research. (Fall I)

Prerequisites: Consent of Instructor This course will provide the student an opportunity to apply knowledge and skills of clinical research in the context of an ongoing project that involves participants who have cultural backgrounds different from those of the student. Projects will vary depending on the faculty preceptors who teach the practicum each year. Each student will work with a preceptor to develop and carry out his or her own mini-study within the context of the parent project. practicum projects should rely primary on qualitative methods, but may have mixed-methods designs.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Certificate CTS program and satifactory completion of CTS 5221 Practicum Preparation Seminar. This course provides a planned, mentored, and evaluated clinical and/or translational science research practicum experience. The course culminates in the student writing a seed grant proposal or manuscript for submission to a peer-reviewed journal under the direction of a mentoring committee. (Fall, Spring, & Summer I)

Prerequisites: By Instructor Approval Only. May be repeated; maximum credit 6 hours. This course will provide the student with the opportunity to assimilate didactic knowledge and apply it to the development and completion of a master's thesis in Clinical Translational Sciences.