Education & Career
The UR CTSI is dedicated to training the next generation of clinical researchers and translational scientists. We manage education programs, courses, and mentorship and networking opportunities for trainees, staff, and faculty.
Academic Program
Academic Research Track
The Academic Research Track is a program for first, second and third year medical students who are considering a research experience as part of their education or career.
Audiences: Medical Students
Branch: Research Education Branch
Education and Professional Development Laboratory Research Clinical Research Collaboration and Networking Career Readiness Mentoring
Ongoing Learning
America's Got Regulatory Science Talent
The annual America’s Got Regulatory Science Talent Student Competition provides an opportunity for students from across the University of Rochester to compete for a chance to present their regulatory science ideas at the FDA.
Audiences: Medical Students, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students
Branch: Office of Regulatory Support, Research Services Branch
Collaboration and Networking Regulatory Science
Degrees and Certifications
Bachelor in Clinical and Translational Sciences
The Clinical and Translational Sciences major provides students with in-depth instruction in the fundamental skills, methodology, and principles of clinical and translational research as well as formal laboratory experiences, and ongoing guidance on the process of translational science. The major includes CTSC299 Research Seminar in Translational Sciences, wherein students learn principles of and practical skills for translational science.
Audiences: Undergraduate Students
Branch: Research Education Branch
Education and Professional Development Translational Science
Courses and Workshops
Bioinformatics Learning Module
This free set of resources on Blackboard is designed to help University of Rochester researchers learn more about the principles and purpose of bioinformatics.
Audiences: Early Career Faculty, Faculty, Fellows, Graduate Students, Postdocs
Branch: Research Education Branch
Biostatistics and Epidemiology Education and Professional Development Data and Information Management Methods and Processes Informatics and Analysis Data Science
Courses and Workshops
Biostatistics Learning Module
This module contains a variety of videos and website links providing useful resources about statistical analyses in clinical and translational research.
Audiences: Early Career Faculty, Faculty, Fellows, Graduate Students, Postdocs
Branch: Research Education Branch
Biostatistics and Epidemiology Informatics and Analysis Education and Professional Development Data and Information Management Data Science
Career Readiness
Career Development K Award
The UR CTSI Career Development Award (KL2) provides two years of support for the early career development of multidisciplinary clinical and translational scientists. The program fosters transition of KL2 scholars to an independent career as a clinical and translational investigator, generally by means of an individual K- or R-award.
Audiences: Early Career Faculty, Postdocs
Branch: Research Education Branch
Clinical Research Translational Science Education and Professional Development
Courses and Workshops
Career Engagement, Revitalization, and Transition
Within academics, challenges with career advancement, continued engagement, and transitions from one stage to another abound. This course is designed to help Associate Professors and Professors in academic medicine gain the skills they need to remain productive and engaged through evidence-based, collaborative learning and reflective practice, and to guide participants in smoothly transitioning from one stage in their career to the next.
Audiences: Faculty
Branch: Research Education Branch
Education and Professional Development Career Readiness Mentoring
Courses and Workshops,Ongoing Learning
Clinical Research Webinars
The UR CTSI hosts quarterly webinars on clinical research topics, featuring investigators from the University of Rochester Medical Center and outside experts who provide services and resources that support clinical research.
Audiences: Early Career Faculty, Faculty, Fellows, Medical Students, Residents, Staff
Branch: Research Services Branch
Clinical Research
Courses and Workshops
Clinical Trials Learning Module
Module participants will learn about clinical trials by engaging with a number of provided resources that provide a greater understanding of the key features, issues, overview, and types of trials.
Audiences: Early Career Faculty, Faculty, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Postdocs, Residents, Staff, Nurses, Fellows
Branch: Research Education Branch
Clinical Research Education and Professional Development
Courses and Workshops
Community Engagement in Research and Population Health
Available to all learners for free, this 20-hour course focuses on the role of community engagement, including community-based participatory research, in the current U.S. health system. This course is hosted by Coursera.
Audiences: Community, Early Career Faculty, Faculty, Fellows, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Postdocs, Residents, Staff
Branch: Research Education Branch
Health Equity Community Engagement Population Health
Courses and Workshops
Community Engagement Learning Module
This module provides an overview on community engagement in research.
Audiences: Community, Early Career Faculty, Faculty, Fellows, Postdocs, Staff
Branch: Research Education Branch
Community-Based Participatory Research Community Health Improvement Education and Professional Development Health Equity Population Health Public Health
Courses and Workshops
Community-Based Participatory Research Training
Community-Based Participatory Research is a collaborative approach to research that involves community members or recipients of interventions during all phases of the research process and recognizes the unique strengths that each member of the research team brings.
Audiences: Community, Faculty, Fellows, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Early Career Faculty, Postdocs, Residents
Branch: Population Health Branch
Community-Based Participatory Research Education and Professional Development Community Engagement Community Health Improvement Health Equity
Academic Program
Deaf Scientist Training
The UR CTSI, in partnership with RIT, is dedicated to helping Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing students and trainees successfully launch a career in academic research or teaching.
Audiences: Graduate Students, Postdocs, Undergraduate Students
Branch: Research Education Branch
Education and Professional Development Collaboration and Networking Career Readiness Mentoring Accessibility
Courses and Workshops
Disparities in Access in Health Care and Research
This free course, sponsored by the UR CTSI and Center for Community Health & Prevention, explores how historic and current harms have shaped the relationship between doctors/researchers and patients/research participants who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
Audiences: Community, Early Career Faculty, Faculty, Fellows, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Postdocs, Residents, Staff
Branch: Population Health Branch
Education and Professional Development Community Engagement Health Equity
Courses and Workshops
Dissemination and Implementation Science Learning Module
This module provides six modules and additional resources to educate users about the purpose, theory, and implementation of dissemination and implementation research.
Audiences: Early Career Faculty, Faculty, Fellows, Postdocs
Branch: Research Education Branch
Dissemination and Implementation Education and Professional Development
Ongoing Learning
Dissemination and Implementation Webinar
The rapidly growing field of dissemination and implementation science examines the process by which scientific evidence is implemented in clinical settings and communities. The UR CTSI’s Dissemination and Implementation function regularly hosts seminars to help researchers gain knowledge and skill in the design and evaluation of evidence-based interventions.
Audiences: Early Career Faculty, Faculty, Fellows, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Postdocs, Residents, Staff
Branch: Population Health Branch
Dissemination and Implementation Health Equity
Courses and Workshops
Early Stage Faculty Bootcamp
This free, three-day course helps senior instructors and assistant professors identify the skills they need for more successful career advancement. CME credits are provided.
Audiences: Early Career Faculty
Branch: Research Education Branch
Education and Professional Development Career Readiness Mentoring
Courses and Workshops
Epidemiology and Research Design Learning Module
This module contains a variety of videos and website links providing useful resources about the clinical research process and epidemiological principles.
Audiences: Early Career Faculty, Faculty, Postdocs, Fellows, Graduate Students, Staff
Branch: Research Education Branch
Education and Professional Development Laboratory Research Clinical Research Methods and Processes
Ongoing Learning
Grant Writing Skills
Grant writing is both a skill and an art. We have compiled courses, how-to guides and tip sheets from URMC, NIH and beyond to help you write winning grants.
Audiences: Early Career Faculty, Faculty, Fellows, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Postdocs, Residents
Branch: Research Education Branch
Education and Professional Development
Courses and Workshops,Ongoing Learning
Grantsmanship Learning Module
This Blackboard module contains a variety of videos and other useful resources to help you navigate the NIH grant submission process.
Audiences: Early Career Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdocs
Branch: Research Education Branch
Education and Professional Development Career Readiness
Ongoing Learning
Health Equity Education
The UR CTSI’s Health Equity Education Initiative helps program leaders and educators of all student levels incorporate health equity into their curricula and build equitable clinical and research learning environments. As part of the URMC Equity and Anti-Racism Action Plan, the initiative provides resources, guidance, tools, and consistency for educators across all URMC departments and schools. This page is hosted by the Edward G. Miner Library.
Audiences: Fellows, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Medical Students
Branch: Research Education Branch
Health Equity
Job Training
Human Subject Research Coordinator Training
The UR CTSI Human Subject Research Coordinator Training Program is a fully paid six-month program that includes an eight-week intensive training period followed by real-world experience.
Audiences: Community, Undergraduate Students, Staff
Branch: Research Services Branch, Clinical Research Center
Clinical Research Education and Professional Development Workforce Development Career Readiness
Courses and Workshops
I-Corps@NCATS Short Course
The UR CTSI and Ain Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation are hosting an I-Corps@NCATS Regional Short Course, designed to provide biomedical scientists, clinician scientists, and engineers with a new approach to accelerating the translation of their discoveries from the lab to clinical practice.
Audiences: Early Career Faculty, Faculty, Fellows, Postdocs
Branch: Research Education Branch
Translational Science Clinical Research Education and Professional Development Regulatory Science Digital Health
Courses and Workshops
Introduction to Biomedical Informatics
An introduction to biomedical informatics, as applied in research and in clinical practice. This course will provide a study of the nature of biomedical information and its capture, collection, storage, and use.
Audiences: Graduate Students, Medical Students
Branch: Informatics and Analytics Branch
Education and Professional Development Informatics and Analysis Data and Information Management Regulatory Science
Courses and Workshops,Ongoing Learning
Introduction to Translational Science Course
This 30-week course provides resources to help you define clinical and translational science, understand the fundamental research methodologies involved in clinical and translational research, describe the principles of team science, and improve your written communication skills.
Audiences: Early Career Faculty, Fellows, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Postdocs, Residents, Staff, Undergraduate Students
Branch: Research Education Branch
Translational Science Community Engagement Clinical Research Dissemination and Implementation Regulatory Support
Ongoing Learning
Knowledge, Empathy, and Equity Framework for Health Equity Education
This curriculum framework helps educators infuse health equity into existing curricula. Based on national health equity standards for health education, the framework and tools are applicable to medical, nursing, and graduate students. Education program leaders can also take the Knowledge, Empathy, and Equity (KEE) Curriculum self-assessment to evaluate their health equity curricula against national standards and competencies. If you would like a self-assessment, contact initiative director Theresa Green, PhD, MBA. This page is hosted by the Edward G. Miner Library.
Audiences: Faculty
Branch: Research Education Branch
Health Equity Education and Professional Development
Courses and Workshops,Ongoing Learning
Leadership and Management Learning Module
This Blackboard module contains a variety of videos and other useful resources to help you start your own lab and develop academic leadership and management skills.
Audiences: Early Career Faculty, Faculty
Branch: Research Education Branch
Education and Professional Development Mentoring
Courses and Workshops
Multi-Site Studies in Clinical Research Course
This free, self-paced Blackboard course is designed to help University of Rochester principle investigators plan and prepare funding proposals to the National Institutes of Health to support multi-site clinical studies.
Audiences: Faculty, Early Career Faculty
Branch: Research Services Branch
Clinical Research Collaboration and Networking Education and Professional Development
Ongoing Learning
Public Health Grand Rounds
This seminar series, sponsored in part by the UR CTSI, highlights community-based initiatives to reduce health inequities, improve access to care, and tackle some of our toughest health challenges. Continuous education credits are offered for medicine, nursing, and social work. This page is hosted by the Center for Community Health & Prevention.
Audiences: Community, Early Career Faculty, Faculty, Fellows, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Nurses, Postdocs, Residents, Staff
Branch: Research Education Branch
Health Equity Population Health Public Health
Academic Program
Research Centers in Minority Institutions Scholarly Exchange
The UR CTSI collaborates with the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry Summer Scholars Program to offer research training to students who are underrepresented in the biomedical and health sciences.
Audiences: Undergraduate Students
Branch: Research Education Branch
Education and Professional Development Collaboration and Networking Mentoring
Ongoing Learning
Research Methods Forum
The Research Methods Forum provides an interactive setting for investigators to present new and developing research ideas to multidisciplinary experts in clinical research methods and potential collaborators, who will provide recommendations.
Audiences: Early Career Faculty, Faculty, Fellows, Postdocs
Branch: Research Education Branch
Education and Professional Development Clinical Research Methods and Processes Collaboration and Networking Mentoring
Courses and Workshops,Ongoing Learning
Rigor and Reproducibility Learning Module
This Blackboard module will help you design and develop protocols for rigorous and reproducible clinical and translational research studies.
Audiences: Early Career Faculty, Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Undergraduate Students
Branch: Research Education Branch
Education and Professional Development Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Courses and Workshops
Rochester Early-Stage Investigator Network (RESIN)
The Rochester Early-Stage Investigator Network (RESIN) works across departments and centers to optimize and support training for early-stage investigators from across the translational spectrum.
Audiences: Early Career Faculty
Branch: Research Education Branch
Education and Professional Development Translational Science Dissemination and Implementation
Ongoing Learning
SCORE: Study Coordinators Organization for Research & Education
Study Coordinators Organization for Research and Education (SCORE) provides support and regular networking opportunities to clinical research coordinators and staff working in an academic setting.
Audiences: Staff
Branch: Research Services Branch
Clinical Research Collaboration and Networking Mentoring
Degrees and Certifications
Translational Biomedical Science PhD Program
Earn a PhD in Translational Biomedical Science through a unique, interdisciplinary program.
Audiences: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
Branch: Research Education Branch
Education and Professional Development Translational Science
Ongoing Learning
UR CTSI Research Education Hub
Find a host of learning modules related to design and conduct of clinical and population health studies, developed and curated by the UR CTSI, on Blackboard.
Audiences: Early Career Faculty, Faculty, Graduate Students, Fellows, Postdocs, Residents, Staff
Branch: Research Education Branch, Translational Science Branch
Education and Professional Development Clinical Research Population Health
Ongoing Learning
UR CTSI Seminar Series
The UR CTSI Seminar Series featured guest speakers from the University of Rochester Medical Center and from around the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program to highlight their research and innovative methods.
Audiences: Graduate Students, Early Career Faculty, Faculty, Fellows, Medical Students, Postdocs, Residents, Staff
Branch: Research Education Branch
Translational Science
Ongoing Learning
UR Medicine Health Equity Leader Fellowship
A new Health Equity-focused concentration for the UR Medicine Leader Fellowship Quality Improvement track is offered to members of clinical departments who have completed the first stage of health equity education assessment and improvement as part of a cohort group. The cohorts work together to apply the Knowledge, Empathy, & Equity Curriculum Framework to their program. Fellows will guide their departments to further implementation. Contact initiative director Theresa Green, PhD, MBA, to learn more. This page is hosted on the URMC intranet and required a login.
Audiences: Fellows, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Postdocs, Residents
Branch: Research Education Branch
Health Equity
Courses and Workshops
URBEST Regulatory Affairs, Compliance, and Review Education Tracks
The URBEST program seeks to prepare graduate students and postdoctoral trainees for careers outside of academia by providing access to training pathways for careers outside of academic research, including regulatory affairs, compliance, and review.
Audiences: Graduate Students, Postdocs
Branch: Research Education Branch, Office of Regulatory Support
Regulatory Science
Ongoing Learning
Working Toward Health Equity
This 18-minute video featuring a diverse cast of community leaders introduces learners to fundamental concepts of social determinants of health and health disparities and includes a comprehensive picture of the Rochester community. To access the video in MyPath with a 10-question quiz, log in and search for “Working Towards Health Equity.
Audiences: Fellows, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Postdocs, Residents
Branch: Research Education Branch
Health Equity
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