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Explore the training opportunities designed for you by clicking on your career stage below

CTS KL2

The CTS KL2 is a highly competitive program for junior faculty at the University of Pittsburgh that offers 75% salary support for up to 5 years to provide protected time to conduct preliminary research for a career development award. The CTS KL2 provides courses, seminars, workshops, and experiential training to build essential translational research skills in team science, leadership, stakeholder engagement, communication, and moving innovations to commercialization.

SOS

Supporting our Scientists (SOS) is a year-long program that supports faculty who have experienced undue caregiving responsibilities as a result of COVID, and whose research productivity and career trajectory has been disrupted due to these responsibilities. Recipients will be awarded $35,000 for supplemental research support, have access to individual career coaching from certified coaches, and be given a ‘work-life flexibility debit card,’ which can be used to facilitate time-saving activities. This opportunity is available to basic, translational, and clinical scientists from across the schools of health sciences.

CTS TL1

The CTS TL1 Fellowship equips researchers with the skills to advance the translational of discoveries into improved patient outcomes and health policy. Both pre- and postdoctoral students are eligible to receive rigorous translational research training and multidisciplinary mentoring through this personalized, 1-year fellowship.

ExcelCRT

Excel-CRT provides top-quality clinical research training to international scholars.

CST

Residents in this program pursue mentored research and a clinical research seminar throughout their clinical training. In addition, they devote 2 months to completing the core curriculum in clinical research following their intern year.

IST

In this program for international residents at the University of Pittsburgh, residents pursue mentored research and attend clinical research seminars throughout their clinical training. In addition, they devote 2 months to completing the core curriculum in clinical research following their intern year.

REACH

This intensive 8-week program is designed to teach fundamental skills of clinical research to physicians in UPMC-affiliated residency and fellowship programs.

CSTP

The CSTP is a yearlong clinical research training program for medical students at the University of Pittsburgh who are committed to careers in clinical investigation.

Med Ed

The Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE) is offering an exciting new MedEd Faculty Development program, featuring 4-week, small-enrollment, online “mini-courses” focused on timely topics in medical education.

"The ICRE has been invaluable in my pursuit of both research and leadership training. A career in research is challenging on many levels, but thanks to the willingness of the ICRE faculty and staff to go the extra mile for its trainees, I feel supported and am confident in my ability to succeed as an independent clinician-investigator and health services researcher. "

TOM RADOMSKI, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
2016 Master of Science in Clinical Research Graduate
2016 Clinical and Translational Science Scholars Program Graduate


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