Medical Residents

Specialty residency training has been focused primarily on the acquisition of clinical skills; most programs have limited time available to pursue scholarly activities, such as engaging in CTR projects. SCCTER will develop research and training programs for residents interested in acquiring or maintaining the requisite critical skills, contributing to their continued career development as skilled clinician scientists. SCCTER will foster resident interest in CTR through three main efforts:

CTR Education in Residency Curricula

Embedding CTR education in residency curricula through each of the residency programs’ regularly scheduled educational meetings as part of the general curriculum for the residency and part of the rotations where residents will have the opportunity to work with translational researchers on the clinical service. These efforts are being piloted in the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program.

One-Week Intensive Clinical Research Course

Offering a one-week intensive clinical research course, for highly motivated residents, that will be similar to the very successful immersion course recently offered to Stanford Pediatric subspecialty fellows and junior faculty. The course will be held at an off-campus site and will include approximately 60 hours of total instruction and research design exercises held over five consecutive days. The course will be designed to expose residents to the fundamental principles, terminology, and breadth of study design, biostatistics, informatics, regulatory issues, and bioethics, in a highly intensive immersion setting. During the course, residents will select a relevant research question and draft a protocol to answer it.

Elective Research Time

Encouraging opportunities in residency training programs that allow for up to six months of elective research time during core residency training. SCCTER will pilot this program through the support of up to six pediatric residents interested in potential careers in CTR.