The Primary Care Clinical Research Program, administered by the Primary Care Research Institute, is designed to provide select osteopathic medical students with the research training, experience, and mentoring necessary to pursue a career in clinical research or academic medicine.

The program offers research practica and mentoring in projects undertaken by many of the family medicine faculty, plus other collaborating investigators within the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and the School of Public Health.

At entry to medical school and through out the medical curriculum, each student will establish collaborative research relationships with faculty members throughout the health science center. These relationships will enable the student to become part of research teams working on various projects relative to primary care and osteopathic medicine.

As part of the program, students will complete the requirements for the Master of Science in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. This program is offered to provide students with clinical research training pertinent to primary care and osteopathic medicine. This degree affords students an opportunity to acquire the didactic training needed to complement their research practica.

The formal presentations and courses in the program are designed to give the student a knowledge base in biostatistics and epidemiology, policies, procedures and compliance issues relevant to human subject's research and responsible conduct of research; scientific communications and writing, and educational methodologies for becoming an effective instructor.

It is anticipated that a student will be able to complete the M.S. degree requirements within the four to five years during to medical school.

 

Fellowship Director

Roberto Cardarelli, D.O., M.P.H., F.A.A.F.P.

Graduate Advisors

Kimberly G. Fulda, Dr.P.H.

Mark Sanders, D.O., J.D., M.P.H.
Richard Virgilio, D.O., M.S.
Roberto Cardarelli, D.O., M.P.H.

FELLOWS AND GRADUATES

Class 2005

Adib Asrabadi

Class 2006

Angela Brimhall

Class 2007

Sarah Arnquist-Ross

Class 2008

Margaret Seater; Joseph Oberdorfer; Nashila AbdulRahim

Class 2009

Mike Dunn

Class 2010

William Effinger, Sital Sampat-Patel, Kelly Sprawls