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The Clinical Investigator Training Program trains physicians from a variety of clinical disciplines in the techniques and processes utilized in patient-oriented research. 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.
Clinical Investigator Training Program
The two-year Clinical Investigator Training Program is a cooperative effort between Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. 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 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.
Program Directors:
Tony Hollenberg, MD, FRCP(C)
Co-Director, Clinical Investigator Training Program
Chief, Thyroid Unit and Director, Strategic Research Planning and Development
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Tel: 617-735-3268
E-mail
Robert H. Rubin, MD, FACP, FCCP
Co-Director, Clinical Investigator Training Program
Osborne Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Director, Division of Infectious Disease, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Cell: 617-877-3236
E-mail
Linda F. Bard, MT, M.Ed.
Program Manager, Clinical Investigator Training Program
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Tel: 617-667-4816
E-mail
For more information on the program, go to
http://www.bidmc.org/citp.