A 2-year training program for physicians interested in patient-oriented research. Clinical Investigator Training (CITP)
At a glance
Opportunity for
  • Education and mentored research in the techniques and processes of patient-oriented research
Eligibility
  • Clinical appointment at a Harvard-affiliated academic healthcare center
  • Board-eligibility
Time commitment
  • Two years at 80% effort
Funding level
  • Tuition Only
Deadline(s)
  • Application: January 9, 2012 (for July admission)
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The two-year Clinical Investigator Training Program is a cooperative effort between Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. The goal of the fellowship is the training of physicians from a variety of clinical disciplines in the techniques and processes utilized in patient-oriented research. The program is based on a specific curriculum that allows trainees to develop direct experience in the performance of clinical investigation and at the same time, through didactic course work, provides them with a strong foundation in the computational and statistical sciences, biomedical ethics, principles of clinical pharmacology, in vitro and in vivo measurement techniques, and many aspects of the drug development process. The program prepares graduates to follow a career path as clinical scientists who are skilled bedside clinicians, recognizing problems at the bedside and possessing the technical skill and knowledge to solve these problems at the bench. The program is funded by an unrestricted educational grant from Pfizer Inc, and Merck & Co., Inc.

The CITP is a two-year program that consists of both a didactic curriculum and a mentor-supervised research program. Each fellow is expected to commit 80% of their time to the program. The didactic curriculum is delivered on Tuesday afternoons except for two week long courses held annually in Study Design and Statistics. A week long course in Clinical Pharmacology is delivered biennially.

CITP accepts fellows from all Harvard teaching hospitals. Fellows are chosen through a competitive application process and candidates for CITP are physicians who have completed the clinical requirements for Board eligibility in their chosen specialty or subspecialty.

In recognition of its academic and curricular strength the Harvard Medical School confers a Masters in Medical Science to each graduating CITP fellow when all requirements have been successfully met.

For more information on the program, go to
http://www.bidmc.org/citp.