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FICRS 2008 New Trainee Orientation
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| What |
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| When |
Jul 07, 2008 08:00 AM
to Jul 23, 2008 05:00 PM |
| Where | Washington DC |
| Contact Name | Cat Lem |
| Contact Email | c.lem@vanderbilt.edu |
| Contact Phone | +1 615 343.4174 |
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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.
