7. Clinical Experience: Goals
• What: bridge silos
• When:
• Now
• Future: sustained during
your research career
• Why: translation key to
advancing health
9. Orientation Overview
• Clinical Experience
• Goals
• Structure
• Policies
• Your experience
• Clinic schedule
• Your role in clinic
• Deliverables
• Role of clinical mentor
• Certification
• Meetings
• Evaluation
10. Orientation Overview
• Clinical Experience
• Goals
• Structure
• Policies
• Your experience
• Clinic schedule
• Your role in clinic
• Deliverables
• Role of clinical mentor
• Certification
• Meetings
• Evaluation
11. Clinical Experience: Structure
• Clinic schedule
• ~ 1/month
• frequency tailored to
• your desires/needs
• the clinical situation (e.g., clinical continuity may require varied
frequency of clinic attendance)
• Attendance required every day you arrange with your
clinical mentor unless illness or emergency
12. Orientation Overview
• Clinical Experience
• Goals
• Structure
• Policies
• Your experience
• Clinic schedule
• Your role in clinic
• Deliverables
• Role of clinical mentor
• Certification
• Meetings
• Evaluation
13. Clinical Experience: Structure
• Your role in clinic
• YES
• shadow the clinical mentor
• discuss dynamics of
patient care with mentor a
priori, e.g.:
• how would you like me to
introduce myself?
• when would we discuss my
questions?
• patient encounters will be
the starting point for
discussing real patients’
medical problems relevant
to your research
• NO
• No clinical or charting
responsibilities
• No language
translation
14. Orientation Overview
• Clinical Experience
• Goals
• Structure
• Policies
• Your experience
• Clinic schedule
• Your role in clinic
• Deliverables
• Role of clinical mentor
• Certification
• Meetings
• Evaluation
16. Clinical Experience: Structure
• Student deliverables related to each clinic
attendance
• A1-2 page report based on each clinic attendance
(journal)
• Why:
• stimulate discussion with clinical mentor
• provide notes for writing the clinical chapter in your thesis
• helps you and us discuss and advocate for your learning in clinic
• What:
• submit report to
• clinical and basic mentors
• the Clinical Experience Committee
17. Clinical Experience: Structure
• Example of a journal entry
• In my July clinic attendance, I saw JB (no PHI) with Dr. Wu.
• JB was being seen for [medical condition] and presented
with [some features of the history and exam and testing].
• Problems JB faces related to [medical condition] include
[problem(s) that engaged your research interest].
• In considering JB’s [problem(s)], one approach to
improving JB’s outcomes might be [propose a translational
project approach to improving outcomes for the
problem(s), including relevant references].
• Example only—explore formats with your mentors
18. Clinical Experience: Structure
• Clinical mentor deliverables related to each clinic
attendance
• >1 relevant peer-reviewed clinical research paper
• You and your clinical mentor discuss the paper in the context of
patient(s) seen in clinic
• a relevant clinical research protocol for the student to
review and critique
• You and your clinical mentor discuss the clinical protocol
outside of the clinic
• Basic science mentor(s) will be invited to these meetings
19. Orientation Overview
• Clinical Experience
• Goals
• Structure
• Policies
• Your experience
• Clinic schedule
• Your role in clinic
• Deliverables
• Role of clinical mentor
• Certification
• Meetings
• Evaluation
20. Clinical Experience: Structure
• Clinical mentor
• On your thesis committee, attends thesis defense
• Regular meetings with you
• Is encouraged to meet with you and your basic research
mentor
• This may result in additional translational collaborations
• Is expected to model principles related to
• ethical conduct of research
• privacy issues in research
21. Orientation Overview
• Clinical Experience
• Goals
• Structure
• Policies
• Your experience
• Clinic schedule
• Your role in clinic
• Deliverables
• Role of clinical mentor
• Certification
• Meetings
• Evaluation
22. Clinical Experience: Structure
• Certification
• Online training in human subjects research and privacy
• http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/research/AboutUs/c
omirb/Submissions-and-Training-Portal/investigator
%20responsabilities/Pages/Completing-CITI-Education-and-
Acessing-InfoEd.aspx#refresh_education
• Scroll to “New Investigators and Research Coordinators” and
follow instructions
23. Orientation Overview
• Clinical Experience
• Goals
• Structure
• Policies
• Your experience
• Clinic schedule
• Your role in clinic
• Deliverables
• Role of clinical mentor
• Certification
• Meetings
• Evaluation
24. Clinical Experience: Structure
• Meetings
• National meeting of CTSA pre-doctoral trainees (TL1s)--an
opportunity to
• present research-in-progress posters
• share experiences with peers
• Network!
• On campus:
• professional development seminars, workshops, and Research-
in-Progress meetings
• relevant clinical-translational seminars, such as
• Grand Rounds
• Dean’s Distinguished Speakers Seminar
• Meetings and seminars at your clinical site
25. Orientation Overview
• Clinical Experience
• Goals
• Structure
• Policies
• Your experience
• Clinic schedule
• Your role in clinic
• Deliverables
• Role of clinical mentor
• Certification
• Meetings
• Evaluation
26. Clinical Experience: Structure
• Evaluation
• Clinical mentors and students complete written evaluations
on the clinical experience for CCTSI PhD trainees
• Annual CCTSI Clinical Experience Committee meeting with
mentors to review each students’ goals, experiences and
achievements
30. Clinical Experience: Policies
• It is about respecting the patient – not fashion
• Always display ID badge; white coat optional
• Clothes must cover shoulders to knees
• Dresses, suits, collared shirts, skirts and tailored
trousers; scrubs if appropriate
• No T-shirts, shorts and jeans
• No slogans
• Piercing jewelry limited to the ears
• Cover tattoos
• No open toed shoes
• Heels <2”
• Wear socks or hosiery
• No strong perfume
35. Clinical Experience: Policies
• Clinical context varies
• Four major hospitals: CHCO, UCH, DHMC, VA
• Others – AHEC, PSL, Rose, etc.
• All sites vary
• policies, paper work and rules
• EMR systems
• organizational culture
• other requirements: PPD, BLS
36. Orientation Overview
• Clinical Experience
• Goals
• Structure
• Policies
• Your experience
• It’s different in clinic
• Communication
• Self-knowledge
37. Your Clinical Experience
• It’s different in clinic
• Patients entrust clinicians with
confidential and private matters
• their nakedness
• their pain
• their stories
• their struggles
• their shame
• This trust is
• an enormous privilege
• a powerful opportunity to help
• a terrifying responsibility
• a source of many feelings
• an inspiration
• sometimes itself healing for the patient
38. Your Clinical Experience
• It’s different in clinic
• Physician-patient privilege is easily and too often
violated
• 30% of state medical boards have fielded complaints of online
breaches of confidentiality
• Pitfalls
• social media
• partners, BFFs
• public space in clinical setting
• online platform for discussing cases
39. Your Clinical Experience
• It’s different in clinic
• Learning opportunities are
opportunistic and unpredictable
• At times, your needs come second
• your time is not always your own
• you may have to rearrange basic
things like meals, bathroom breaks,
checking in with family/friends
40. Your Clinical Experience
• Communication
• Mentor:
• ask questions
• ask for feedback about your own communication
• Patient:
• introduce yourself—learn how best do do this
• study how your clinical mentor communicates with and about patients
• Clinical staff:
• introduce yourself
• an opportunity for learning about patients and about the system of
patient care
• Other students: share experiences
41. Your Clinical Experience
• Self-knowledge
• Clinical realm is a chance to learn about being
• patient-focused
• team-player in a multi-disciplinary team
• self-directed, independent
• flexible
• an active listener
• a researcher collaborator on a clinical team
• building relationships with colleagues
• It also can teach you about
• your own limits
• what works best for you to stay centered and balanced
• other professional self-care skills key to professional longevity
• Ask for help, guidance, advice
Editor's Notes
Who tracks meetings?
Is this correct?
Who tracks meetings?
Are the students evaluated using the professionalism feedback form?