The Investigative Medicine Program is accepting registration for two courses starting at the end of July and in September. Courses are open to faculty, fellows, residents, and staff.
For additional course information and details on registering, please visit the program’s website at https://medicine.yale.edu/investigativemedicine/index.aspx.
Please contact the program registrar pamela.fucci@yale.edu or phone 785-6842 for specific questions.
IMED 625: PRINCIPLES OF CLINICAL RESEARCH
July 29 – August 9, 2013
Monday – Friday, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Registration Deadline: Monday, July 22nd
Course Fee: $400
This intensive two-week course provides an overview of the objectives, research strategies, and methods of conducting patient-oriented clinical research. Topics include competing objectives of clinical research, principles of observational studies, principles of clinical trials, principles of meta-analysis, interpretation of diagnostic tests, prognostic studies, causal inference, qualitative research methods, and decision analysis. Sessions generally combine a lecture on the topic with discussion of articles that are distributed in advance of the sessions.
Course Directors: Eugene Shapiro, M.D. Co Director: David Fiellin, M.D.
IMED 630: ETHICAL & PRACTICAL ISSUES IN CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
September 3 – December 10, 2013
Tuesdays, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Registration Deadline: Monday, August 26th
Course Fee: $400
This course addresses topics that are central to the conduct of clinical investigation, including ethics of clinical investigation, scientific fraud, technology transfer, and interfacing with the pharmaceutical industry. Practical sessions include scientific presentations and teaching, NIH peer review process, journal peer review process, and career development models of academia. The course provides guidelines and a framework for the clinical investigator to obtain funding for, conduct, and present a clinical study. Satisfactory completion of this course provides credit for Instruction in Responsible Conduct of Research and will satisfy the NIH requirement for such instruction. Format consists of didactic presentation followed by discussion.
Course Director: Henry Binder, M.D.