FICRS 2008 New Trainee Orientation

New Trainee participants will be brought together for a three-week orientation program 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 and 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
• Computer Skills
• Responsibilities of a Fogarty Scholar

Participants will be in orientation on NIH-campus from July 7-19th, and then depart for the Universities associated with their foreign sites for a mini-orientation to discuss location and project details.

This event is coordinated through the AAMC, who will send information out to scholars & fellows concerning registration, travel and lodging while in Bethesda.