Clinical and Translational Research Training Track

Applications are no longer being accepted. The next round will be announced in mid-2025.

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The Clinical/Translational Research Training Track provides training to UMB fellows and early-stage faculty who seek foundational training in developing and executing a mentored clinical/translational and/or public health research project, including effectively communicating research to get published and funded. All participants are expected to submit a grant application within six months of participation in the training track.

This six-month program will include didactic instruction, experiential learning, grant writing training, and a capstone project. Upon completion of the didactic and experiential learning, scholars will have a research protocol for a clinical or public health project that they are executing or will execute under the guidance of a mentor. Lastly, scholars will complete a capstone project which will consist of writing a grant application and participate in a mock study section review. Scholars will complete an individual development plan (IDP). The training track timeline for the 2025 cohort looks like this:

FAQs, eligibility, and application instructions are online here.

Please email questions to Yarlene Williams at ywilliams@som.umaryland.edu.

Draft syllabus

Week	Topic
1	Welcome & Orientation
1	Grant Writing – The Basics
1	Developing a clinical research question and hypothesis
1	Specific Aims
1	Critically reviewing the scientific literature/Rigor of prior research
2	Writing & publishing a research manuscript
2	Significance & Innovation
2	Specific Aims draft
2	Specific Aims draft
3	Approach/Methods
3	Design and Implementation of a clinical research study
3	Introduction to study design – quantitative and qualitative research
3	Study design: cross sectional studies
3	Study design: case-control and cohort studies
4	Study design: clinical trials
4	Choosing study subjects, sampling, and recruitment strategies
4	Significance & Innovation draft
4	Significance & Innovation draft
5	Identifying study measurements and data collection methods
5	Health survey research methods
5	Biostatistics basics, interacting with a biostatistician
5	Principles of sample size estimation
5	Data management
6	Giving an effective research presentation/executive presence
6	IRB Approval
6	Full project presentation
6	Full project presentation
6	Full project presentation
7	Identifying sources of funding
7	Project Summary & Public Health Narrative
7	NIH biosketch, Letters of Support
7	Developing a budget, budget justification, and administrative components of a grant application
7	Responding to reviewer critiques
8	NIH Biosketch feedback (optional)