[Bioundgrd] Fwd: HST-S12: Introduction to Human Clinical Investigation

[Kathleen Long]

>
>HST-S12
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>Director: Ravi Thadhani, MD, MPH
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>The reason that the major academic medical centers, biotech, and 
>pharmaceutical companies are in Boston is because of the talent 
>pool...that's all of you!
>
>Introduction to Human Clinical Investigation (HST-S12) is a seminar 
>course targeted towards the undergraduate who has an interest in 
>clinical research and who plans on entering the biomedical field. 
>Specifically, anyone interested in attending medical or other 
>medical related graduate school, or joining industry, will find this 
>weekly seminar course extremely helpful.
>
>The class size is limited to 14 students, is offered in the spring 
>semester, offers 6 credits, is intended to be interactive, and lunch 
>is provided at each session. Each seminar is run by someone actively 
>participating in human research, either from academia (primarily 
>from the MIT Clinical Research Center) or industry (Massachusetts 
>based biotech companies), and who has demonstrated expertise in a 
>specific area related to clinical investigation. These areas include 
>epidemiological study designs, analysis techniques, prerequisite 
>animal studies that transition to human studies, phase I-IV clinical 
>trials, the placebo effect, healthy relationships between academia 
>and the pharmaceutical industry, ethical issues in clinical 
>research, patient perspectives in participating in clinical studies, 
>and necessary steps to becoming an active clinical investigator. 
>Furthermore, each instructor is actively involved in the education 
>of medical students, residents, and fellows at MIT and/or Harvard 
>Medical School, and can provide students with insight about medical 
>training and can serve as mentors to guide interested students 
>through the application process.
>
>Each class lasts approximately two hours, with half the time 
>dedicated to lecture and half to open discussion, and sessions are 
>quite informal. Lunch is provided at each class. Each speaker begins 
>the session with an overview of his/her career path and his/her 
>current activities (while all of you are eating!), and thereafter 
>embarks upon the scheduled lecture. The overall goal of this seminar 
>is to provide an overview of medical research to interested and 
>motivated undergraduates.
>
>Please contact Susan Dalton 
>(<mailto:sdalton at mit.edu>sdalton at mit.edu) or Ravi Thadhani 
>(<mailto:thadhani.r at mgh.harvard.edu>thadhani.r at mgh.harvard.edu) if 
>you have any questions.
>
>
>
>Heather Bois Bruskin
>Coordinator, MIT Careers Office
>Preprofessional Advising & Freshman/Alumni Summer Internship Program
>77 Massachusetts Avenue, 12-170
>Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
>Tel: (617) 253-4733
>Fax: (617) 253-8457
>http://web.mit.edu/career/www
>http://web.mit.edu/fasip/www/NewPage/
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