The Clinical Research Training Center (CRTC) provides a cohesive and supportive infrastructure to foster clinical research training and career development for predoctoral students, house-staff, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. Active mentoring, hands on research experiences and formal didactic programs in clinical research methods leading to a certificate or Masters Degree in Clinical Investigation are core components of the program. The CRTC represents a paradigm shift in the approach to clinical research training for ICTS institutional partners by formally integrating dozens of diverse training programs into a single location and administrative umbrella.

The mission of the CRTC is to provide outstanding clinical and translational research training. This is accomplished by:

• integrating and enhancing existing training programs
• developing new clinical and translational courses
• promoting multidisciplinary team training
• developing new career development programs
• providing improved evaluation and tracking for all training programs
• providing mechanisms and infrastructure for sharing best practices, including educational resources and materials, curriculums, evaluation materials, minority recruitment strategies and materials to track trainees, mentors, faculty, and the training programs

Additional training will be developed to address the broad spectrum of both levels of translational research (bench to bedside and bedside to community) including issues of Good Clinical Practice, investigator sponsored vs. industry sponsored studies, entrepreneurial issues of intellectual property development, recruitment and retention of research study participants, understanding and overcoming cultural barriers, methods of community based research, and reducing health disparities.

Current research training programs include:

Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Award (K12)

The Career Development Award is aimed at fellows, post-doctoral scholars, and junior faculty committed to multidisciplinary clinical research. The program provides generous financial support and benefits that allow scholars to focus on didactic studies and clinical research to further their career goals and to make independent contributions to clinical and translational science.

Mentored Training Program and Clinical Investigation Curriculum (K30)

The Mentored Training Program and Clinical Investigation Curriculum provides career development for investigators through didactic coursework and electives, mentored training, work-in-progress research seminars, and a Master of Science program in Clinical Investigation

Predoctoral Program in Clinical Investigation (T32)

The Predoctoral Program in Clinical Investigation provides career development for medical and allied healthcare students through didactic coursework, mentored training, work-in-progress research discussions, journal clubs and conferences.

Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship Program

The Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship Program provides funds to support medical students to participate in didactic coursework and hands-on clinical research training during an additional year of medical school. The program provides an individualized and in-depth experience in clinical research