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Training in clinical research: the bridge between predictive, preventive and personalized medicine (625.3)
Author(s) -
Trovato Guglielmo
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.28.1_supplement.625.3
Subject(s) - promotion (chess) , medical education , intervention (counseling) , curriculum , medicine , quality (philosophy) , health care , nursing , psychology , political science , pedagogy , philosophy , epistemology , politics , law
Clinical research is not actively promoted in most institutions: academic, hospitals and primary care based organizations seek funding without a realistic knowledge and balance of their available human resources and facilities. Fundraising efforts are the pre‐requisite for any research becoming often a barrier to the development of articulated independent research (from epidemiology to personalized therapy). The promotion of the professional quality is based more on compulsory lifelong learning activity dealing with the most recent guidelines on best practice than on the implementation of innovation through the available information. Lifestyle intervention, sustainable procedures and therapies are still neglected tools that should be developed for enhancing evidence‐based medicine. In the last decade, we developed three yearly postgraduate curricula to promote original thought, to provide basic and operationally useful skills, to teach and to explore the possibilities of setting up networks and existing collaborations. Vocational training integrated and participated within all clinical professionals (medical doctors, nurses, technicians, biologists, dietitians, physiotherapists, others) will facilitate those who wish to plan projects. The interaction and contribution of participants are the core of the training methodology and research is developed as a permanent mode of professional progress. The three lines are: E‐learning and Telemedicine, Clinical Ultrasound and Culture and Strategy of Intervention on Lifestyles and Clinical Nutrition. Each year a total of 70 professionals are enrolled. The outcome is measured on the basis of the number of individual competitive projects submitted by trainees for funding to National or International Institutions. Results achieved are satisfactory:there is a significant increase of the number of the projects successfully submitted, which were proposed by 30% of the participants in 2012.