This clinical research track is designed to provide a high quality mentored training experience for future clinical researchers. The track takes advantage of a special and unique program available at Duke Medical Center, the Duke Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP). Our clinical research track is based on the concept that high quality clinical research, defined as research likely to materially improve understanding and to change clinical practice (and consequently patient outcomes), requires mastery of a diverse multi-disciplinary body of technical knowledge and skills.
The Clinical Research Training Program has formalized the mentored clinical research experience by requiring trainees to develop, conduct, analyze, and ideally, publish the results of a research project overseen by a primary research mentor and two members of the training program faculty, a clinician and a biostatistician. This co-mentoring paradigm is based on our belief that successful clinical research is collaborative and that investigators from different training backgrounds who have different skills are best brought together as a team.
Educational stipends from the Division and NPRI have supported Master of Health Science degrees in Clinical Research for two neonatology faculty and neonatology fellows. Fellows interested in pursuing this track meet with the Fellowship Director during the first three months of their fellowship. With the guidance of the fellows identify their clinical research mentor and develop their research plan in the second half of their first fellowship year.
The fellow is a part of the clinical research team in the Division and is expected to develop his/her own questions that can serve as a primary or ancillary question. The fellow is expected to develop, perform and publish a meaningful original project. Under the proposed grant, fellows will be expected to enter the Master Program for Clinical Research or provide sufficient evidence of their competency in clinical research techniques.
Clinical Researchers:
Current Clinical Research Funding:
a) NICHD - Neonatal Research Network:
b) Clinical Research Grants: SBIR
c) Industry Grants
d) Pharmacokinetics Resarch Grants:
e) T32 Fellowship Training Grant:
Educational Initiatives:
To refer a patient,
24 hours a day:
Ask for the neonatologist on call at:
1-800-MED-DUKE (1-800-633-3853)
or dial the pager directly at: (919) 970-1714.
Phone (919) 668-1592
Fax (919) 681-6065
