Preventive Medicine

Catalog description

The course will provide a basic and broad overview to clinical research, as well as support tailored to each student's specific project. The student will gain an understanding of how to develop clinical research questions including protocol design and the factors that should be considered in initiating a clinical research study. This will include biostatistical considerations; the recruitment of study participants; regulatory issues; defining measures and instruments; data collection, management, and analysis; and reporting of results via abstract, presentation, and/or manuscript. It is required that students have a research idea and mentor before enrolling. Faculty support and collaboration will be available up to 6 months after completion of the course for ongoing efforts to complete the project. Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor. No prior coursework is required. Students must have, or plan to begin, a quality improvement or retrospective research project.