Call For CER Scholarships Application

Application Guidelines

Application Submission Deadline: Monday July 13, 2015

Notice of Award: August 3, 2015

Contact: Kiramey Gilleese
kiramey.gilleese@pharm.utah.edu
801 597 9639

Purpose

The University of Utah Pharmacotherapy Outcomes Research Center and the Department of Pediatrics offer funding for scholarships in Technology-Oriented Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) open to current pre-doctoral students. Funding is available for tuition scholarships (1/2 tuition benefit at in-state tuition rate) for students who will be actively enrolled in a doctoral program at the University of Utah Fall 2015 through Spring 2017. Funding will be available for 2 years while the student is taking courses related to technology-oriented CER offered through the Masters of Science in Clinical Investigation program and the Department of Pharmacotherapy.

What is comparative effectiveness research? The following definition is from the Institute of Medicine (IOM).

• CER is the generation and synthesis of evidence that compares the benefits and harms of alternative methods to prevent, diagnose, treat, and monitor a clinical condition, or to improve the delivery of care.
• The purpose of CER is to assist consumers, clinicians, purchasers, and policy makers to make informed decisions that will improve health care at the individual and population levels.

The two key elements embedded in this definition are the direct comparison of effective interventions and their study in patients who are typical of day-to-day clinical care. These two features ensure that the research will provide information that decision makers need to know. A third feature is that CER is designed to identify the clinical characteristics that predict which intervention will be most successful in an individual patient, and also identifies patient subpopulations that are more likely to benefit from one intervention than the other. This program will emphasize methods and applications in assessing the comparative effectiveness of pharmaceuticals, diagnostic/prognostic tests, medical devices, and other health technologies.

Eligibility

Current graduate-level students in doctoral programs in a University Department who desire training in Technology-Oriented CER.
Applicants must also be enrolled in the University of Utah Graduate School.

Scholars Requirements: Students must take CER-related courses required to achieve a Technology-Oriented CER emphasis in their graduate program of study.

Forms

Application