ART - Curriculum Details

The ART will be based in the Double Helix Curriculum, with additional requirements:

Attendance at 75% or more of scheduled seminars, lectures and workshops, throughout the years of training, consisting of

Mini-courses or modules describing topics related to medical research, including statistics, study design, conflicts of interest and bias, research communication and obtaining funding
Presentations by ART students who are developing, implementing or completing their own research projects
Lectures that describe and analyze research studies based on topics covered in the Double Helix Curriculum

Additional training in Ethics in Research through the course offered in the Graduate School
Certification in human studies through the self-study Human Subjects Protection Program
Completion of a mentored research rotation during the summer between years 1 and 2 (~eight weeks in duration), designed to provide exposure to research and to potential research mentors
Completion of a ‘year-out’ to participate in a mentored research project – typically, between years 2 and 3
Completion of a first-author manuscript describing the research and its results, in a form suitable for submission to a peer-reviewed journal

For further details: see the complete Course of Study.

Ethics and HSPP. The Ethics requirement is met by the Graduate Studies-approved coursework, which can also fulfill the Double Helix Curriculum’s Medical Humanities selective requirement in the Second Year. Rationale: This is already required of MD/PhD students, who have separate arrangements; ART may be able to ‘piggyback’ on this. Logistics: A new Ethics and Professional Integrity course is being developed that will encompass both clinical and basic research components. Timing will be arranged to accommodate MD/PhD and ART students.

HSPP training can be completed at any time as an on-line offering (see link below); but it must be completed by the end of Year 1 or prior to participating in any research involving human subjects.

This is a self-study program consisting of an informational textbook and an examination.

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