This Month

• April 1: The final deadline to apply to the Clinical and Translational Research Course for PhD Students is Monday, April 1, 2013. Graduate students in the basic biomedical sciences are eligible to apply.

• April 1: The Protocol Navigators Training Series will continue on Monday, April 1, 2013 at the NIH. This event is hosted by the NIH IRP Protocol Navigation Training Program. Previous seminars are available on-demand [disclaimer].

• April 10: Clinical Research Day 2013 at the NIH will be held Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD.

• April 10: The next Great Teachers presentation will be held Wednesday, April 10, 2013. Robert M. Califf, MD, will discuss "Comparison and Contrast of Therapeutics Development in Acute Coronary Syndromes and Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: A Role for Integrative Physiology." Great Teachers is a sub-series of the Clinical Center Grand Rounds.

• April 15: Letters of recommendation for completed applications submitted to the Clinical and Translational Research Course for PhD Students are due Monday, April 15, 2013.

• April 15: The deadline to apply for the NIH-Duke Training Program in Clinical Research is Monday, April 15, 2013.

• Clinical Research Connections Newsletter
  A newsletter for alumni and current participants in NIH clinical training programs. The next issue will be published in June 2013.
  • Archived Newsletters

Upcoming

• May 13-14: The 2012-2013 NIH Medical Research Scholars Program Year-End Scientific Presentations will occur Monday, May 13 and Tuesday, May 14, 2013 on the at the NIH Clinical Center, Lipsett Auditorium.

• June 17: The 2013 NIH Clinical Center Summer Internship Program (SIP) will begin Monday, June 17, 2013 and conclude Friday, August 9, 2013. The eight-week internship is open to high school, undergraduate, and graduate students.

• July 8-19: The Clinical and Translational Research Course for PhD Students will begin Monday, July 8, 2013 and conclude Friday, July 19, 2013.

Ongoing

• Clinical Center Grand Rounds
  A weekly lecture series, Wednesdays at noon, that focuses on state-of-the-art discoveries in clinical and translational research. View this month's schedule.
   
• The NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series (WALS)
  The WALS includes weekly scientific talks by some of the world's top researchers in the biomedical sciences. All lectures are held in Masur Auditorium, Building 10 of the NIH main campus, and are open to the public.
   
• Principles of Clinical Pharmacology Course
  This course consists of a weekly lecture series covering the fundamentals of clinical pharmacology as a translational scientific discipline focused on rational drug development and utilization in therapeutics. View this week's schedule (22 KB).
   
• Demystifying Medicine for PhDs
  This series provides PhD students, clinicians, and program managers with weekly lectures designed to bridge the gap between advances in biology and their application to major human diseases. View this week's schedule.

Past Events

• March 3-4: The NIH Medical Research Scholars Program hosted 91 interviewees during the 2013-2014 MRSP Interview Weekend, March 3-4, 2013.

• March 15-16: The NIH Clinical Center's Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education exhibited at the American Medical Student Association Annual Convention [disclaimer] at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., March 15-16, 2013.

• March 28-30: The NIH Clinical Center's Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education (OCRTME) exhibited at the Student National Medical Association American Medical Education Conference [disclaimer], in Louisville, Kentucky. Mr. Kenny Williams of the OCRTME also presented on the topic: "Training Opportunities at the NIH."

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