Advanced Research Training
Many opportunities are available for formal advanced training in research at BIDMC and affiliated institutions. These programs are all designed to integrate with fellowship training. You should also know about loan repayment programs sponsored by NIH.
The Clinical Investigation Training Program (CITP) is an innovative Harvard-wide training program in clinical investigation that is Co-directed by Anthony Hollenberg, M.D. and based at BIDMC. Developed as a collaboration between academia and industry; CITP provides industry-sponsored training in clinical investigation that is interwoven with fellowship training. This is an exceptional opportunity for fully funded formal research training in parallel with fellowship research. The CITP program awards a Master of Medical Science degree through Harvard Medical School.
The Scholars in Clinical Science Program (SCSP) is a two-year post-graduate training program in clinical investigation. Funded by a Clinical Research Curriculum Award from the National Institutes of Health, the SCSP consists of formal didactic coursework, a longitudinal seminar series, and a mentored clinical research project. Trainees who successfully complete the program are awarded a Master of Medical Sciences degree from Harvard Medical School. The academic year begins the first week of July and runs through the last week in May.
Summer Program in Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health is designed for the clinician seeking the quantitative and analytic skills needed for clinical research or interested in health care administration. This program begins with an intensive seven-week, 15-credit summer program, which contains summer-long core courses in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. All participants also select two half-summer courses from offerings in Current Issues in Health Policy, Decision Analysis, Ethical Basis of the Practice of Public Health: Health Care Delivery, Implementing Prevention, Linear and Longitudinal Regression, Medical Informatics, Quality Improvement in Health Care, Research with Large Databases, and Survey of Methods and Applications in Health Services Research. Students have the option of advanced coursework leading to the M.P.H.
Medical school debt should not be a disincentive to a career in research. NIH Loan Repayment Programs are a vital component of our nation's efforts to attract health professionals to careers in clinical, pediatric, health disparity, or contraceptive and infertility research. In exchange for a two-year commitment to your research career, NIH will repay up to $35,000 per year of your qualified educational debt, pay an additional 39% of the repayments to cover your Federal taxes, and may reimburse any state taxes that result from these benefits.
