- 1.Career Advancement Program for Clinical Research Scholars
(CAPS) ORIENTATION TBS
2. Opening Remarks Russell V. Luepker, MD, MS Mayo
ProfessorDivision of Epidemiology & Community Health School of
Public Health CAPS Program Director 3. NIH Roadmap andCAPS Program
Overview Russell V. Luepker, MD, MS Mayo ProfessorDivision of
Epidemiology & Community Health School of Public Health CAPS
Program Director 4. NIH Roadmap Goal Goal of K12 NIH Roadmap: ...to
educate future leaders of multidisciplinary clinical research and
speed the translation of research discoveries into improved patient
care. 5. NIH Roadmap Re-engineering the Clinical ResearchEnterprise
Research Teams of the Future New Pathways to Discovery 6.
- Difficulty recruiting and retaining clinical researchers
- Rising overhead costs and regulatory demands
- Limitations due to NIH funding mechanisms, review, and program
structure
- Lack of a viable career pathway deters investigators from
conducting clinical and translational research impedes basic
research results from entering into clinical practice
How Did We Get Here? 7. Challenges of Interdisciplinary
Research
- The current system of academic advancement favors the
independent investigator
- Most institutions house scientists in discrete departments
- Interdisciplinary science requires interdisciplinary
peer-review
- Project management and oversight is currently performed by
discrete ICs
- Interdisciplinary research teams take time to assemble and
require unique resources
8. Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development
Program
- Roadmap K12 Program is designed to increase the national pool
of clinician-scientists from many disciplines
- The program differs in its goal by supporting career
development of the clinical research team
- The clinical research team includes:nurses, sociologists,
pharmacologists, biostatisticians, and epidemiologists, in addition
to physicians, dentists, and other scientists.
- Funding for up to 5 years includes didactic and practical
training in design, conduct, and analysis of clinical research
- Each clinical research scholar may be recruited from within a
grantee institution or externally and has two mentors
9. CAPS Program Goals
- CAPS is more than a training program.
- to train clinical researchers
- to launch Scholars careers
- to increase the number of interdisciplinary researchers who are
working together
10. CAPS Overview
- Scholars & Mentoring Teams
11. Minnesotas Approach
- Faculty Career DevelopmentProgram
- Multidisciplinary Scholars
12. CAPS Core Competencies
- Multidisciplinary collaboration
- Planning and managing research studies
- Human Subjects Protection and Responsible Conduct of
Research
- Data collection, management, & analysis
- Reporting study findings (publications)
- Professional presentation of study results
13. Training Program
- MS in Clinical Research or related field
- Additional CAPS courses and seminars
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- Career Development seminar (PubH 6309)
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- AHC Clinical Research Conference
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- Management for Clinical Research (PubH 6572)
- NIH CTSA KL2/K12 Annual Meeting
14. Training Program (contd) MS Clinical Research (38 cr)
- Fundamentals of Clinical Research (3 cr)
- Epidemiologic Methods I & II (3 cr each)
- Biostatistics I & II (4 cr each)
- Clinical Research Project Seminar (2 cr)
- Writing Research Grants (2 cr)
- Ethics in Public Health: Res & Policy (1 cr)
- Thesis Credits: Masters (10 cr)
15. Training Program (contd) Other Masters Level Degrees
- MS in Health Services Research and Policy
- MS in Clinical Investigation
- MS in Social, Administrative, and Clinical Pharmacy -
Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology Track
16. CAPS Expectations
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- Commit 75% effort to CAPS-related training, research, and
career development activities (50% effort for surgical
scholars).
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- Commit no more than 25% total effort to clinical duties,
teaching, and departmental administrative duties.
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- Post and update Career Development Plan, Ground rules,
Confidentiality Agreement, and Mentoring Team interactions on
mentor team website.
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- Meet regularly with mentoring team.
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- Participate in all CAPS-specific activities (seminar,
conferences, workshops, etc).
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- Complete MS degree program (if not completed prior to
CAPS).
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- Register for additional CAPS-specific courses.
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- Submit one peer-review article for publication per year
(exceptions granted for full-time MS program students in first K12
year)
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- Grant proposal (by end of CAPS period)
17. Career Advancement Program for Clinical Research Scholars
(CAPS) Introductions 18. CAPS 2008 Scholars
- Scholar: Aviva Abosch, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor,
Neurosurgery
- Mentors: Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, MD, PhD, Professor,
Neuroscience; Jon E. Grant, MD, MPH, Associate Professor,
Psychiatry; Kamil Ugurbil, PhD, Professor, Center for Magnetic
Resonance Research; Lynn E. Eberly, PhD, Associate Professor,
Biostatistics
- Project Title: Compulsive Behavior in Patients with Parkinsons
Disease before and after Deep Brain Stimulation
19. CAPS 2008 Scholars
- Scholar: Jason Baker, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, Infectious
Diseases & International Medicine, HCMC
- Mentors: James D. Neaton, PhD, Professor, Biostatistics; W.
Keith Henry, MD, Professor, UMN AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, HCMC;
Richard Grimm, MD, PhD, MPH, Professor, Cardiology/ Epidemiology;
Daniel A. Duprez, MD, PhD, Professor, Cardiology
- Project Title: Small and Large Arterial Elasticity and HIV
Infection:a pilot study
20. CAPS 2008 Scholars
- Scholar: Monica Colvin-Adams, MD, Assistant Professor,
Cardiology
- Mentors: Daniel J. Garry, MD, PhD, Professor, Cardiology;
- Daniel A. Duprez, MD, PhD, Professor, Cardiology; Robert F.
Wilson, MD, Professor, Cardiology; John E. Connett, PhD, Professor
and Head, Biostatistics; Robert Bache, MD, Professor,
Cardiology
- Project Title: Phosphodiesterase-5 Inhibition and Cardiac
Allograft Vasculopathy
21. CAPS 2008 Scholars
- Scholar: Sean Elliott, MD, Assistant Professor, Urologic
Surgery
- Mentors: Timothy J. Wilt, MD, MPH, Professor, Internal
Medicine; Beth A. Virnig, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Health
Services Research, Policy, and Administration; Robert L. Kane, MD,
Professor, Health Policy and Management; Roger Feldman, PhD,
Professor, Health Policy and Management; Bradley P. Carlin, PhD,
MS, Mayo Professor, Biostatistics
- Project Title: The influence of financial incentives on
practice patterns and outcomes in prostate cancer therapy
22. CAPS 2008 Scholars
- Scholar: Lynda Polgreen, MD, MS, Fellow, Pediatric
Endocrinology
- Mentors: Anna Petryk, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatric
Endocrinology; Antoinette M. Moran, MD, Professor, Pediatrics;
Chester B. Whitley, MD, PhD, Professor, Pediatrics; William Thomas,
PhD, MS, Associate Professor, Biostatistics
- Research Project :To study bone health in two related
populations: children after hematopoietic cell transplantation
(HCT) and children with Mucopolysac-charidosis (MPS) diseases with
and without HCT and/or enzyme replacement therapy (ERT)
23. CAPS 2008 Scholars
- Scholar: Steven Stovitz, MD, Assistant Professor, Family
Medicine and Community Health; Adjunct Faculty, Kinesiology
- Mentors: Robert W. Jeffrey, PhD, Professor, Epidemiology and
Community Health; John H. Himes, PhD, Professor, Epidemiology and
Community Health; Mark A. Pereira, PhD, Associate Professor,
Epidemiology and Community Health; Peter J. Hannan, MStat, Senior
Research Fellow, Epidemiology and Community Health
- Research Project: To study childhood growth features which
predict adult obesity utilizing the CATCH and SOLAR databases
24. CAPS 2008 Scholars
- Scholar: Fareed Suri, MD, Fellow, Neurology
- Mentors: Aaron R. Folsom, MD, MPH, Professor, Epidemiology and
Community Health; Adnan I. Qureshi, MD, Professor, Neurology; Cavan
S. Reilly, PhD, MS, Associate Professor, Biostatistics
- Project Title: Renin-Angiotensin System Polymorphisms and Risk
of Small Vessel Ischemic Stroke Analysis from a Cardiovascular
Cohort
25. CAPS 2006 Scholars
- Scholar: Lisa Chow, MD, Assistant Professor, Endocrinology
- Mentors:Elizabeth R. Seaquist, MD, Professor, Medicine;
- Michael Garwood, PhD, Professor, Radiology;
- Lynn E. Eberly, PhD, Associate Professor, Biostatistics
- Project Title: Evaluation of Intramyocellular Lipid Content
(IMCL) in Skeletal Muscle by Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
- Scholar: Sarah A. Cooley, MD, Assistant Professor, Adult
Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation
- Mentors: Jeffrey S. Miller, MD, Professor, Medicine;
- Daniel J. Weisdorf, MD, Professor, Hematology, Oncology and
Transplantation; Chap T. Le, PhD ,Distinguished Professor,
Biostatistics
- Project Title: Natural Killer Cell Receptors
26. CAPS 2006 Scholars
- Scholar:Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, MD, Assistant Professor,
Neurology
- Mentors: David C. Anderson, MD, Professor, Neurology;
- Russell V. Luepker, MD, MS, Mayo Professor, Epidemiology &
Community Health; Beth A. Virnig, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor,
Health Services Research, Policy, and Administration;
- David R. Jacobs, Jr., PhD, Professor, Epidemiology &
Community Health
- Project Title:Improving Evidence-Based Quality of Care in Acute
Stroke
- Scholar: Peter Milev, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor,
Psychiatry
- Mentors: Kelvin O. Lim, MD, Professor, Psychiatry;
- Angus W. MacDonald III, PhD, Assistant Professor, Psychology;
Susanne S. Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor and Statistician,
Psychiatry
- Project Title:Deficits in perceptual organization and thought
disorder in schizophrenia: relationships with fMRI functional
anatomy
27. CAPS 2006 Scholars Scholar: Daniel A Mulrooney, MD, MS,
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics; Pediatric Hematology, Oncology,
Blood and Marrow Transplantation Mentors:Joseph P. Neglia, MD, MPH,
Professor, Pediatrics;Robert P. Hebbel, MD, Professor, Hematology,
Oncology and Transplantation; James D. Neaton, PhD, Professor,
BiostatisticsProject Title:Atherosclerosis in Survivors of
Childhood and Young Adult Hodgkins Disease Scholar: Marcie R.
Tomblyn, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, Hematology, Oncology and
Transplantation Mentors: Daniel J. Weisdorf, MD, Professor,
Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation; Mary M.Horowitz, MD,
Professor, Medicine, Medical College of WI; John P. Klein, PhD,
Professor, Biostatistics, Medical College of WI; Brent R. Logan,
PhD, Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, Medical College of WI
Research Project:To design and execute local and multi-center
trials to advance hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) for
management of lymphoma 28. CAPS 2006 Scholars Scholar: Heather E.
Vezina, PharmD, Assistant Professor, Laboratory Medicine and
Pathology/Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology Mentors: Henry H.
Balfour, Jr., MD, Professor, Lab Medicine and Pathology/Pediatrics;
Richard Brundage, PharmD, PhD, Associate Professor, Pharmacy;
William Thomas, PhD, Associate Professor, Biostatistics Project
Title : Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic characteristics of
valacyclovir (V-ACV) in adults with primary Epstein-Barr virus
(EBV) infectious mononucleosis (IM) 29. CAPS 2007 Scholars Scholar:
David R. Boulware, MD, Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases
& International Medicine Mentors:Paul R. Bohjanen, MD, PhD,
Associate Professor, Microbiology and Medicine; Edward N. Janoff,
MD, Professor, Infectious Diseases, University ofColorado at
Denver; James D. Neaton, PhD, MS, Professor, Biostatistics; Tracy
L. Bergemann, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biostatistics Project
Title:Immune Reconstruction Syndrome in HIV-infected Persons in
Resource-Limited Areas Scholar: Adam F. Carpenter, MD, Assistant
Professor, Neurology Mentors:Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, MD, PhD,
Professor, Neuroscience;Gareth J. Parry, MD, Professor, Neurology;
Kelvin O. Lim, MD, Professor, Psychiatry; Lynn E. Eberly, PhD,
Associate Professor, Biostatistics Project Title:Protein markers of
disease in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) 30. CAPS 2007 Scholars
- Scholar: Melissa A. Geller, MD, Assistant Professor,
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health
- Mentors: Amy P. N. Skubitz, PhD, Associate Professor,
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology; Sundaram Ramakrishnan, PhD,
Professor, Pharmacology; Douglas Yee, MD, Professor, Hematology,
Oncology and Transplantation;Chap T. Le, PhD, Professor,
Biostatistics
- Project Title:Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Ovarian Cancer:
Predicting Tumor Response
- Scholar: LAurelle A. Johnson, PhD, Assistant Professor,
Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology
- Mentors: Timothy S. Tracy, PhD, Professor, Pharmacy;
- Pamala A. Jacobson, PharmD, Associate Professor, Pharmacy;
- Julie A. Ross, PhD, Professor, Pediatrics; Antoinette M. Moran,
MD, Professor, Pediatrics; Melanie M. Wall, PhD, MS, Associate
Professor, Biostatistics
- Project Title:The effect of childhood obesity on phase 1 and
phase 2 drug metabolism enzymes
31. CAPS 2007 Scholars
- Scholar: Ken M. Kunisaki, MD, MS, Assistant Professor,
Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
- Mentors: Dennis E. Niewoehner, MD, Professor, Pulmonary
Section, VAMC; Allen S. Levine, PhD, Professor and Dean, College of
Food, Agricultural and Natural Resources Sciences; John E. Connett,
PhD, Professor and Head, Biostatistics
- Project Title:Micronutrients and Exacerbations of COPD
- Scholar: Donald R. Nixdorf, DDS, MS, Assistant Professor,
Diagnostic & Biological Sciences, Dentistry
- Mentors: Eric L. Schiffman, DDS, MS, Associate Professor,
Dentistry; David A. Bereiter, PhD, Professor, Dentistry; Kamil
Ugurbil, PhD, Professor, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research;
Noam Harel, PhD, Assistant Professor, Medicine; James S. Hodges,
PhD, MA, Associate Professor, Biostatistics
- Project Title: Functional Imaging of Trigeminal Neuropathic
Pain
32. CAPS 2007 Scholars
- Scholar: Jeffrey R. Wozniak, PhD, LP, Assistant Professor,
Psychiatry
- Mentors: Kelvin O. Lim, MD, Professor, Psychiatry; Monica A.
Luciana, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychology; Pi-Nian Chang, PhD,
Associate Professor, Pediatrics/Psychiatry; Paul M. Thuras, PhD,
Research Associate, Psychiatry
- Project Title: Cerebral white matter effects of fetal alcohol
exposure: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) study of microstructural
brain abnormalities and their neurocognitive correlates
- Scholar: Fang Yu, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Adult and
Gerontological Health Co-operative Unit, Nursing
- Mentors: Jean F. Wyman, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA, Professor, Nursing
Research/Community Health and Family Practice;
- Maurice W. Dysken, MD, Professor, Psychiatry; Wei Pan, PhD,
Associate Professor, Biostatistics
- Project Title:The FIT-AD Study / Preserving Cognition and
Function Through Aerobic Training in Alzheimer's Disease
33. CAPS Executive Committee Russell V. Luepker, MD, MS, Mayo
Professor,Epidemiology & Community Health, SPH CAPS Program
Director Elizabeth R. Seaquist, MD, Interim Director, OCR;
Professor, Medicine; Director, GCRC; CAPS Co-Director James D.
Neaton, PhD, Professor, Biostatistics, SPHCAPS Co-Director 34.
CAPSMultidisciplinary Advisory Committee
- Russell V. Luepker, MD, MS (Chair)
- Linda H. Bearinger, PhD, MS, RN, FAAN
- David M. Brown, MD, Ombudsman
- Bryan S. Michalowicz, DDS, MS
- Elizabeth R. Seaquist, MD
- Anne Marie Weber-Main, PhD
35. CAPS Ombudsman
- David M. Brown, MD, Professor Emeritus, Pediatrics/Laboratory
Medicine and Pathology
- to provide scholars with feedback and advice
- to facilitate resolution of program-related difficulties and
challenges
36. CAPS & the CTSA ? 37. CAPS Mentoring and Evaluation CAPS
Mentoring & Evaluation Director 38. CAPS Mentoring &
Evaluation
- Why the emphasis on mentoring in this program
- What do we know abouteffectivementoring
- How the CAPS program facilitates aneffectivementoring
approach
- How the CAPS program evaluated
39. Why Emphasis on Mentoring?
- Faculty with mentors demonstrate higher levels of success on
the following factors:
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- Research productivity (Bland and Schmitz 1986, Byrne and Keefe
2002)
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- Professional socialization and interactions with colleagues
(Corcoran and Clark 1984)
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- Salary levels; and satisfaction with salary and promotion
(Melicher 2000)
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- Teaching effectiveness, evidenced by declines in teaching
anxiety and improved student ratings of teaching effectiveness
(Williams 1991).
40. Not all Mentoring is alike
- Effective faculty mentoring is a result of:
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- Systematic tasks and activities that the mentor and mentee do
together not personal chemistry
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- Early and enduring mentoring is most beneficial
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- Regular meetings of the mentoring pairs/teams- which may
require nudging
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- Using mentors from outside the mentees department is very
effective
41. CAPS Mentoring Teams
- Mentoring teams include experienced clinical investigators
- Teams are multidisciplinary and include a biostatistician
- Mentors responsibilities are clearly delineated
- Mentoring process and development of mentees is reviewed
regularly
- Mentors and mentees participate in training workshops
- Online tracking of mentoring process (meetings and progress) is
provided
42. Mentoring Workshops
- Scholars attend an initial mentoring workshop with their senior
mentors and, preferably, one or more associate mentors.
- Mentor-to-Mentor Workshop:
- Senior Mentors attend a mentors-only workshop to provide
feedback on the mentoring experience.
- Dates are posted on the CAPS Website as workshops are
scheduled.
- Next Mentoring Workshop (new Scholars & Mentors):
- Friday, June 6, 2008 from 1:00-4:00 p.m.
43. First Mentoring Workshop forMentors and Mentees
- Working session to review:
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- Mentees career vision, goals, next years objectives, and
activities
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- Mentees incoming strengths and improvement areas
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- Mentoring ground rules and confidentiality agreements
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- Mentoring schedule (team is expected to meet as a group at
least quarterly)
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- Role of each mentor on the team
44. Workshop for Mentors Only
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- to review highlights of Scholars progress
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- to review Scholars time distribution
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- to discuss mentoring team roles (individual and group as a
whole)
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- to review Scholars satisfaction with mentoring behaviors
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- to review adequacy of mentoring interactions
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- to discuss purpose of multidisciplinary mentoring and how best
to achieve it
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- to share strategies for successful mentoring
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- to assess reasonableness of Scholars next years goals and
timelines
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- to identify ways CAPS can better support mentoring
activities.
45. Online Tracking ofMentoring and Career Development
(Optional) Matt Beecher, Informatics Manager,General Clinical
Research Center
- Post career vision, goals, planned strategies, and
timeline
- Post ground rules and confidentiality agreement documents
- Document mentor team meetings
- Document use of Shared Clinical Research Support Group
(SCRSG)
- Note decisions from meetings, assignments before next meeting,
and goals for next meeting
- Maintain drafts of projects accessible by whole team
- Ease mentor tracking burden
- Aid evaluation without duplication of effort
46. CAPS Scholar Agreement
- 75% effort on CAPS-related training, research, and career
development activities (50% surgical scholars)
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- Career development plan (post on team website within 2 wks of
Mentoring Workshop; update 2 wks prior to scheduled MAC review
meetings)
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- Ground rules and confidentiality agreements (post on team
website w/in 2 wks of Mentoring Workshop)
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- Regularly scheduled mentoring team meetings (post schedule and
interactions on mentor team website - post meetings and action
items w/in 2 wks of each interaction)
47. CAPS Scholar Agreement
- Expectations (continued):
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- Participate in all CAPS-specific activities
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- Complete MS degree program (if notcompleted prior to CAPS) -
9-14 cr in first year; maintain 3.5 GPA
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- Register for additional CAPS-specific courses (all
scholars)
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- Peer-review articles (1 per yr - exceptions granted to
full-time students in first year)
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- Grant proposal (by end of CAPS period)
48. CAPS Mentor Agreement
- Assure that scholars spend 75% effort on CAPS-related training,
research, and career development activities (50% effort for
surgical scholars)
- Attend CAPS Orientation and mentoring workshops
- Participate in regularly scheduled mentoring teammeetings
- Senior Mentor provides accountability for scholars work and
coordination of team - plans meeting agendas with Scholar to
address research and career mentoring topics
- Complete written mentoring ground rules and confidentiality
agreements with scholar
- Assist scholar with career development plan components
including annual goals and objectives with specific strategies and
timeline
49. CAPS Mentor Agreement
- Expectations (continued):
- Approve career development plan components and subsequent
changes (posted on mentor team website)
- Monitor scholars career development, CAPS activities, and
mentoring interactions - review team website entries monthly
- Assure that scholar is receiving support and resources from
home department
- Provide information for semi-annual program evaluation of
mentoring activities
- Develop plans for grant submission
- Mentor funds for CAPS-related activities including travel,
continuing education, CAPS research project support, or salary
redistribution
50. CAPS Baseline and Year-End Quantitative Evaluation
- Data collection at the beginning of the program and abbreviated
follow-up at the end of each year as well as ongoing mentoring
tracking:
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- Scholar Clinical Research Appraisal Inventory
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- Scholar Department/Division Culture
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- Scholar Discipline Identification
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- Mentor Discipline Identification
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- Scholar and Mentor Consent form
51. Baseline Evaluation Forms
- Evaluation is a CAPS requirement
- Baseline forms - complete and return to CAPS Administrative
Specialist (forms are posted on CAPS website)
- Consent form - grants permission to use evaluation data for
research purposes
52. CAPS ScholarQualitative Evaluation
- At 6 months, 1 year, and then annually, a MAC Evaluation
Subcommittee reviews:
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- Clinical Schedule (protected time)
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- Overall Weekly Schedule (time management)
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- Mentoring Team Interactions
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- Connections in Professional Field
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- Overall CAPS Satisfaction
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- Completion of Evaluation Forms
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- Clinical Research Skills Development
53. Biostatistician Mentors in CAPS James D. Neaton, PhD, MS
Professor, Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health CAPS
Co-Director 54. Biostatistician Mentors: General Goals
- Work with you and the other mentors as part of a
multi-disciplinary team
- Learn about your field and area of research
- Advise/teach biostatistical topics relevant to your
research
- Convey the value of early biostats mentor involvement re
project design, data collection, and problem resolution
- Discuss potential role of biostatistician mentors on future
grants
55. Biostatistician Collaborators Will Work With You To:
- Formulate study questions
- Develop study implementation plans
- Determine the next question
56. 57. CAPS Benefits & Administration Russell V. Luepker,
MD, MS CAPS Program Director 58. CAPS Benefits
- Salary and Benefits - commensurate with rank and position (75%
effort; 50% for surgical scholars)
- Tuition and program application fee for up to 14 cr/sem and 6
cr/summer session
- Travel funds for annual NIH-sponsoredCTSA/K12 Meeting for
Scholars , Upper Midwest Consortium meeting, and professional
meetings (up to $2,500/year)
- Research funds (up to $25,000 per year)
- Mentor funds (up to $10,000 per year/team)
- CAPS Award is renewable annually (3-5 years)
59. Benefits Administration
- Salary is paid through scholars departments
- (departments cross charge K12 grant)
- Full tuition coverage for scholars in MS programs (e-mail
Student Accts Receivable page to CAPS Coordinator each
semester)
- Scholars not in MS program apply for Regents Scholarship
(non-degree student information and form are posted on CAPS
website)
- Required course textbooks and software are covered by CAPS (SAS
forms on CAPS website)
60. Benefits Administration(continued)
- Complete CAPS Travel Authorization (TA) form (on CAPS website)
& submit to CAPS Coordinator prior to travel
- Check GSA per diem when completing TA (link posted on CAPS
website)
- Complete Employee Expense Worksheet (on CAPS website) and
submit with original receipts after travel (internet charges are
not allowed by K12 grant)
61. Benefits Administration(continued)
- Complete Research Funding Application (on CAPS website)
- Complete NIH budget and justification
- Contact Coordinator re equipment order forms
- Submit forms electronically to the CAPS Coordinator with IRB
approval/renewal letter
- Include electronic signatures or send a signed hard copy to
CAPS Coordinator at EpiCH, 300 WBOB
- For subsequent year renewal requests, submit NIH budget and
justification electronically and the most recent IRB
approval/renewal letter
62. Benefits Administration(continued)
- Review policy re use of mentor funds (on Mentoring page of CAPS
website)
- Each Scholars team decides how to divide funds
- Mentor funds may be used for professional travel, continuing
education, CAPS research project, or salary redistribution
- Submit forms to the CAPS Coordinator as early in each budget
year as possible
63. MS Program Application
- Submit choice of MS program to CAPS Program Director for
approval
- Apply to program (see SPH website and Graduate Studies
Coordinator for information)
- Attend the SPH Orientation
- Maintain contact with Major Coordinator and Advisor
- Refer to Student Guidebook throughout program
- Register for course load as outlined in plan
- Maintain cumulative GPA of 3.5
64. Public Information
- Area of study and research interest
- Disclosed in press releases, program reports, web pages, and
similar documents
65. Notification of Changes
- Scholars are required to immediately notify
- CAPS Director in writing of:
- Changes that preclude meeting award requirements
- Acceptance of similar award with duplicate benefits
- Changes in clinical responsibilities
- Withdrawal from degree program
66. Leaves of Absence
- Requires written request to CAPS Program Director
- Requires approval of CAPS Program Director
- Maximum, if approved, is 2 months of unpaid absence
67. Clinical Research Shared Support Office of Clinical
Research: budget, study staff, clinic space Biostatistics Core:
study design, coordination, analysis GCRC:study staff, clinic space
Clinical Pharmacology Center: pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic
studies; pharmacogenetics Mentoring Core: guidelines, training,
mentoring issues Scientific Writing Core: grant writing, manuscript
preparation and review, presentations IRB: Human Subjects
protection, informed consent issues IND/IDE Assistance Program:
FDA/IND applications, FDA and industry-related issues Office of
General Counsel: legal assistance, negotiating agreements, policy
guidance CAPS Website: caps.umn.edu contacts, CR-related links,
announcements, forms 68. CAPS Contacts 69. Introductions EpiCH
Support Staff 70. CAPS Coordinator Terri Tharp, MPH [email_address]
612-626-8882 71. MS Clinical ResearchMajor Coordinator Andrea Kish,
MS [email_address] 72. EpiCH Accounting Keith Coyer CAPS Accountant
[email_address] 73. Administrative Support Jill Anderson
Administrative Specialist [email_address] Janelle Willard Executive
Secretary [email_address] 74. CAPS Questions? CAPS Program Director
Russell V. Luepker, MD, MS [email_address] CAPS Co-Director
Elizabeth R. Seaquist, MD [email_address] CAPS Co-Director James D.
Neaton, PhD [email protected] CAPS Mentoring and Evaluation Director
TBN CAPS Coordinator Terri Tharp, MPH [email_address] CAPS Website
www.caps.umn.edu