The next entering class of candidates for the PhD will be enrolled in the Fall of 2011. Candidates for the Masters Degree and Certificate may apply at any time. Registration is now open for CCTS courses for Spring 2010. You may also find them listed on the Graduate College web page - you may register on the Registrar's web site.
For questions and more information please email Alan Rubin MD at alan.rubin@uvm.edu.
Nov 20: Student Presentations: Gabe Tharp, Tim Tourville
Dec 4: Jonah Steinberg, PhD Anthropology: "Working with Street Kids in India"
Dec 11: Student Presentations
One of the areas of emphasis for the CCTS is to provide flexible graduate-level education to those seeking a career in Clinical and Translational Science. The program is designed for scholars who seek to develop careers as independent investigators in any aspect of human health. Graduates of the program will have the research skills they need (coupled with the skills and knowledge of their own clinical or scientific domain) to pose important questions, design, conduct and analyze rigorous studies, and report their findings to the scientific world. Special emphasis is placed upon the real world challenges of clinical and translational research: collaboration, regulation, funding and communication.
We offer a novel educational experience to give learners from multiple disciplines, working with faculty across many university departments and colleges the core skills necessary to work with humans in clinical and translational science and a set of electives which are personalized to individual learners. In addition, the learner can select from an extensive set of electives that cover the broad domains of CTS. They will also undertake mentored investigative work that will lead to one of two levels of competence: a Master of Science in Clinical and Translational Science, or a Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical and Translational Science. A Graduate Certificate in CTS, which does not include the investigative work, is also available.
At the core of the program are:
1) courses and seminars that take a minimum of one year to complete and are unique to the program. These are:
and 2) additional coursework that has specific relevance for the research to be undertaken. Each student will have a thesis adviser in the program, to assist with the choice of this coursework. Once chosen and approved, these elective courses become a required component of the core program for that individual.
Our goal is to effectively and efficiently transform clinicians and other young academics drawn from the large array of disciplines contributing to health into successful independent clinical and translational science investigators.
Our aim is to produce investigators who can:
For more information, please contact
Benjamin Littenberg, MD, Director
The Courtyard at Given, S459
89 Beaumont Avenue
Burlington, VT 05405
Tel: (802) 656-8202
E-mail: benjamin.littenberg@uvm.edu
Alan Rubin, M.D.
phone: (802) 847-8268
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