During the fellowship, the fellow will design and conduct a research project that can entail either retrospective chart review or a small prospective study. The fellow is expected to complete this project during the fellowship and to subsequently publish the results of this research at a national MS conference, the University of Florida College of Medicine Research Day, the Department of Neurology Grand Rounds, and a peer-reviewed journal.
The fellow will be trained in blinded rating for clinical trials and receive specific training in clinical trials methodology. The University of Florida provides opportunities for course work in the design of clinical research studies, statistics, clinical epidemiology, clinical trials design and conduct, as well as basic graduate immunology and more advanced courses in immunology.
The fellow will become familiar with:
- Introduction to biostatistics
- Epidemiologic methods
- Responsible conduct of research/ethics
- Topics in clinical research
- Protocol design and writing
- Molecular medicine
- Grant writing
- Clinical trial design
- Interpretation of outcomes
- Clinical tools used in clinical studies in MS
- Various animal models in MS studies