Oregon

Oregon Health & Science University

3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd
Portland, OR 97239

Human Investigations Program (HIP)

OHSU Mail Code: BICC 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd
Portland, OR 97239
www.ohsu.edu/dmice/hip
(503) 494-3095
hip@ohsu.edu
Director: Cynthia Morris, PhD, MPH

Degree Offered
Master of Clinical Research

Eligibility
Applicants must have acquired an MD, MD/PhD, DO, DDS, DMD, DC, PharmD, OD, or an ND; have a PhD with clinical responsibilities or interest in patient-oriented research; or be a doctorally-trained nurse. Applicants should be faculty or staff at OHSU or from other health care facilities in Oregon or the Northwest. Applicants to the MCR track must be enrolled in the certificate track and in good standing or have completed the certificate track.

Duration
3 years

Thesis Requirement
No thesis required. A mentored capstone project is required resulting in a grant application such as an R01 or K23 OR a publishable manuscript based on a protocol written, conducted and analyzed by the student during the academic program.

Goals
HIP strives to provide an educational foundation for successful, comprehensively trained clinician investigators. The main objectives of the program include providing students with:

• Training in the clinical investigative process from initial trial design to data analysis and presentation
• The expertise necessary to enter an independent phase of career development
• A mentored experience which provides intensive, practical and supportive training to individualize the program and which will lead to an academic product such as a grant submission or peer-reviewed publication, and will prepare trainees for an academic research career
• An integration of principles of translational research, new pharmacology techniques, genomics, and medical informatics into the curriculum and mentored experiences
• Knowledge of the major sources of grant funding, grant-writing and grantsmanship