Introducing Clinical Research

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What is clinical research? What skills are required to pursue it? What does a career in clinical research look like?

This primer will give you the 10,000-foot overview of clinical research and help to situate terminology and concepts you’ve already heard within an overarching framework.

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

  • Explain what clinical research is and isn’t, identify a range of goals it serves, and distinguish between the two basic types of clinical research
  • Identify the competencies necessary to succeed in a clinical research career and ways to acquire them
  • Identify the types of professionals who pursue clinical research and discuss what draws them to clinical research careers

Thomas R. Radomski, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinical and Translational Science
Associate Director of the Institute for Clinical Research Education 

Dr. Radomski is a general internist, experienced in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of a wide array of medical problems that affect adults. In addition, Dr. Radomski is a health services researcher. His work, which focuses on patient-centered approaches to measure and reduce health services overuse, has been published in JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, and the Annals of Internal Medicine. Dr. Radomski is a dedicated educator and mentor to early-career investigators. 


Marie K. Norman, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Clinical and Translational Science 
Director of the Innovative Design for Education and Assessment (IDEA) Lab
Co-Director of the University of Pittsburgh Team Science Core

Dr. Norman holds a PhD in cultural anthropology with a focus on medical anthropology. She has used qualitative approaches to study a range of topics in health and education, including the working dynamics of research teams, the uses of human-centered design for research, and the evaluation of education and training programs. She teaches qualitative research methods to ICRE students and trainees, and she mentors graduate, post-doctoral, and early-career investigators. Dr. Norman loves the capacity of qualitative research to open windows into other lives and worldviews.

Learn how to draft a clinical research question and proposal, identify a range of study designs for observational and experimental studies, and control for bias and confounding.

Modules in this Stack are case-based, interactive, and entirely self-paced, combining convenience and flexibility with deep, engaged learning. Take them all to earn a competency-based certificate.

Other modules in this Stack:

  • Experimental Studies in Clinical Research
  • Accounting for Bias and Confounding
  • Crafting a Clinical Research Question and Proposal
  • Observational Studies in Clinical Research

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