Provides Educational Opportunities
The methodology core offers regularly scheduled and informal educational opportunities in clinical research methodology for investigators, fellows, graduate students and other staff. These include:
- Weekly biostatistical reading sessions
- Introduction to the clinical research course, Introduction to Clinical Research, offered to all members of the research base through Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Ad hoc specialty research lectures and efforts
- Seminars designed to inform PIs of multi-centered research efforts on how to stay HIPAA compliant
- Bi-weekly pediatric rheumatology journal club
- Monthly literature critique within the Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Immunology and Division of Rheumatology
- Bi-monthly one hour sessions mentoring sessions for adult and pediatric rheumatology fellows
- Monthly Epidemiology and Biostatistical Journal club