Orientation Curriculum
All new trainee participants will be brought together for a two-week orientation program in July in Bethesda, MD on the NIH campus, during which discussion and instruction of the following issues, among others, will take place:
- Clinical research: methods, statistics, epidemiology and critical thinking (via literature review, journal clubs, etc.)
- The design of clinical studies
- Bioethics: basics of bioethics, the peer review process, IRB/IEC, FWA, privacy, special populations, and legal issues
- Economics and Research
- Publications: scientific paper writing, authorship, ethics
- International health: organizations (WHO, World Bank, NGO, BILAT and Multilateral Governmental structures, Ministries of Health), issues, and diseases
- Student safety and student health
- Cultural competency: foreign languages, medical anthropology, cultural anthropology
- Collaboration among fellow students and foreign researchers
- Scientific writing
- Internet tools
- Responsibilities of a FICRS Scholar and Fellow
- Click here to see the full 2008-2009 Orientation Agenda
