Trainee Opportunities

Designing Clinical Research Course

The Designing Clinical Research courses for trainees are modeled after the highly successful TICR course for postdoctoral fellows and faculty. Offered in a one-month format in either a classroom or online setting, the courses are geared towards UCSF residents and health science students.

Clinical & Translational Research Fellowship Program (formerly PACCTR)

The Clinical & Translational Research Fellowship Program (CTRFP) is designed to train predoctoral students from all four UCSF schools with the aim of launching students toward careers as independent researchers. The program is designed to be flexible to meet the needs of students and includes both didactic and practicum components.

Clinical Research Services Training

Clinical Research Services offers training opportunities to enhance clinical and translational research training and career development throughout UCSF. We welcome trainees' inquiries for training, especially in the area of research in Bionutrition and Nursing.

NIH Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research

Are you a trainee or junior faculty interested in a career in clinical and translational research? NIH Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research provide an opportunity for trainees and young faculty to work on an existing NIH-funded project in a particular area of interest. Find out how to connect with a Principal Investigator who is doing research in your area of interest.

Graduate Programs in Clinical and Translational Research

  • Master's Degree in Clinical Research — a two-year course of study intended for advanced pre-doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty members who wish to master clinical research methods and pursue independent research careers.
  • Master's Degree in Translational Medicine — designed to train students in applying translational research and engineering approaches to solve fundamental problems in healthcare delivery.
  • Epidemiology & Translational Science PhD Program — designed to provide students with rigorous training in epidemiologic and biostatistical methods along with opportunities for practical experience in a wide variety of applied areas to enhance their classroom training.
  • Graduate Education in Medical Science (GEMS) Training Program — provides training to enable students in the major Biomedical Science Programs to pursue interactive investigations with clinical researchers that accelerate the application of basic science discovery to improvement of human health.
  • Clinical & Translational Informatics Graduate Program — emphasizes foundational training in core informatics theories and methods complemented by coursework and experiences in clinical and translational research or quality and safety of evidence-based care.

Professional Success Skills

Professional Success Skills, offered by the Office of Career and Professional Development, is a series of intensive workshops designed to enhance the professional development of UCSF graduate and professional students, postdoctoral and clinical fellows, and junior faculty.

Pre-Health Undergraduate Program (PUP)

The Pre-Health Undergraduate Program (PUP) is a summer clinical research training program for undergraduate students currently enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), who are planning to attend dental, medical, nursing, pharmacy or physical therapy professional schools after graduation, and who have an interest in a career in clinical research. Accepted UCB students will be enrolled in the Designing Clinical Research course, will be paired with a UCSF professional student who is enrolled in the course, and will work with the UCSF professional student on their research project applying the principles learned in the course. The purpose of the course is to train UCB students to evaluate the medical literature, to design clinical and translational research studies, and to encourage long-term collaborations between UCSF and UCB students.

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Accelerate is managed by the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), part of the Clinical and Translational Science Award program funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (Grant Number UL1 TR000004) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Cite CTSI NIH Funding Acknowledgment: Important — All publications resulting from the utilization of CTSI resources are required to credit the CTSI grant by including the NIH Funding Acknowledgment and must comply with NIH Public Access Policy.