Neuromuscular Medicine Fellowship

The Neuromuscular Medicine Fellowship's research elective is a one-to-two-month rotation located in the Landon Center on Aging located on KU Medical Center's main campus and the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) in Fairway.

Fellows are involved in designing, conducting and interpreting the results of studies with close faculty supervision. They also engage in research with direct longitudinal involvement throughout the year in all KU Medical Center investigator-initiated studies and other neuromuscular research studies. During this rotation, our fellows work in conjunction with our expert research faculty to gain knowledge in neuromuscular research trials, endpoint measures and their applications, benefits and limitations.

Fellows are required to participate in the four-week course, Introduction to Biostatistics for Clinical and Translational Researchers, offered through Frontiers Clinical and Translational Science Institute.

Fellows also are expected to become familiar with the following online courses and sources of information that are designed to help investigators understand clinical research and develop proposals/grant submissions for potential funding:

• Introduction to the Principals and Practice of Clinical Research (IPPCR). A lecture in real-time with archived videos available. The course runs from October-March and the previous year's course is available at any time.
• University of Iowa Institute for Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS). The Clinical Research Professionals Basic Certificate course is offered through ICTS Virtual University and provides a basic introduction to clinical research. Other courses on bioethics, genetics and pharmacology also are available. Participants are required to create an account and establish login information.
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants and Funding - About Grants. This site provides investigators with grant writing guidance, strategy and instruction.
• CTSpedia. This is a collaborative vehicle for the Clinical and Translation Science Awards (CTSA) Program's Biostatistics/Epidemiology/Research/Design (BERD) Online Resources and Education Task Force that identifies and shares resources across the national consortium with a worldwide community of researchers. BERD educational materials link to biostats course materials, searchable by keyword, format, audience, etc., submitted by many consortium institutions.
• NIH Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research. This resource provides full links to the course including syllabus, readings, videocasts and podcasts of lectures. Registration for the next year's course opens in the summer.
• CTSA Central Education and Training resources. This provides links to various resources at CTSA consortium institutions.