There are a variety of training opportunities available for individuals interested in clinical and basic research in hemostasis and thrombosis.
Opportunities for exposure to research are offered through the Howard Hughes and Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center programs to talented high-school students interested in working in a laboratory during the summer. Undergraduates, graduate students and medical students frequently work in basic research laboratories of investigators in the Center. The Medical Scientist Training Program is one of the oldest in the nation, started in 1966.
Research opportunities also exist during residency training as well as during fellowship and post-doctoral years.
Fellowship opportunities include training grants in Hematology, Cardiology and other Divisions in Medicine. Research opportunities are also available through other clinical and basic science departments at Duke.
Additional opportunities for training exist through a variety of mechanisms, including through the Duke Clinical Research Institute and the Center for Human Genetics.
Clinical training opportunities
The Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP) at Duke is funded by a K30 mechanism from the NHLBI. It has offered a formalized academic program in the quantitative and methodological techniques of clinical research to clinical fellows and other health professionals since 1986. In collaboration with the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center at NIH, this training program is currently offered to medical students, clinical fellows and other health professionals at NIH by means of interactive video-conferencing from Duke, supplemented by web-based instructional modules.
Current initiatives include a systematic expansion, implementation and evaluation of the CRTP distance learning initiative. Faculty development in the use of technology and the curriculum delivery systems used will be designed specifically for the subject matter in the curriculum and the unique needs of the distance learners participating in the program. The resulting curriculum model(s) will be exported to at least one additional site and findings regarding faculty development and curriculum delivery for training clinical researchers will be disseminated.