Training Opportunities

CTPH supports innovative training, career, and professional development programs for learners, faculty, and staff at consortia member institutions. Our programs focus on improving capacity for conducting rigorous, efficient, and informative clinical and translational research and clinical translational science.

Learning Opportunities

Training in Current Good Clinical Practice (cGCP) via CITI

The baseline cGCP coursework is provided by the CITI program, available to both University of Houston and Baylor College of Medicine. Additional cGCP courses are forthcoming.

The CITI Program

Mentoring Workshops

Gain access to mentoring workshops from the University of Houston and Baylor College of Medicine based on curriculum resources from NIH-funded Culturally Aware Mentoring program and the National Research Mentoring Network.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Work with external innovators, mentors and entrepreneurs through University of Houston’s I-Corps program. I-Corps is a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded initiative designed to promote innovation and entrepreneurship among students and faculty while helping to build a robust innovation ecosystem that works collaboratively with external innovators, mentors, and entrepreneurs.

UH I-Corps Site

Certification in Clinical and Translational Research

Earn a Clinical Translational Research Certificate of Added Qualification (CTR-CAQ), a graduate certificate from Baylor College of Medicine that builds core competencies for clinical research professionals. Interested graduate students can apply for relevant T32 funding.

Explore Program

Collaborative and Interactive Technologies

Get involved educational activities to build competencies in research methodologies and explore other continuing education opportunities through BCM’s Center for Collaborative and Interactive Technologies. Whether you are interested in learning more about Quality Improvement and Patient Safety or wanting to build continuing education coursework, CCIT can help advance your goals.

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K12 Scholars Program

The K12 Scholars Program aims to recruit, train and retain a diverse cohort of clinical and translational science scholars dedicated to understanding and advancing the science of translation.

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