Academic Associates Program

• Patient Tracking Screen & Logs

• Professionalism Lecture

• Orientation presentation/syllabus

Orientation: 8 Hours

• Informed consent training

• Clinical Studies (breakout sessions) with

Principal Investigators and Research Assistants

• Training week Schedule/Shift Schedule

• Begin clinical shifts with a trainer

-Instructors/TAs

-Former AcA students

-Complete Training Checklist

• "Study Exam" on Research Study Procedures

-Open book, online on Canvas

• First Class Meeting

-Oral consent/assent examination

-Clinical Trials Office Study Coordinators

• Canvas

-Research study materials

-Articles related to the studies

-Study Test and Assignments

-Physician Mentorship Program

-PowerPoint Lectures

Course

Content

• Didactic learning sessions once a week

-Tuesdays at 1-2:15pm at HSEB

Location

• Pediatric Emergency Department (ED)

Student Objectives

• To teach the fundamentals of clinical research

• Conduct "real time" clinical research

• Interact with patients, families, and the

medical team

• Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
• Other divisions/clinics

Hematology/Oncology clinic

Labor & Delivery at University Hospital

Sample ED Studies

• Therapeutic Hypothermia After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest (THAPCA)
• Biosignatures (Febrile Infants)
• Sports-Related Head Injury (Concussions)
• Skull Fracture
• Oncology Biobanking
• Children’s Development After Trauma
• Lumbar Puncture/Shunt (CSF Sampling)
• Pregnancy Complications (Umbilical Cord Blood)
• Psychiatric Crisis Follow-Up

Clinical Shifts

• Hours (Monday-Sunday 6am-midnight):

6-9am

9am-12pm

12-3 pm (no coverage Tuesday during class)

3-6 pm

6-9 pm

9pm-midnight

Clinical Shifts

• Shifts are consistent

throughout the

semester

-4.0 Credits: 6 hrs/wk (2-three hour shifts)

-5.0 Credits: 9 hrs/wk (3-three hour shifts)

-6.0 Credits: 12 hrs/wk (4-three hour shifts)

Responsibilities:

PED 5900

Clinical Research Methods I

"Academic Associates"

Pediatric

Clinical Research

Minor

Maija Holsti, MD, MPH

Elizabeth Arrigona, BA

Primary Children’s Medical Center

University of Utah School of Medicine

Salt Lake City, Utah

• Students take on leadership role

• Earn UofU IRB Human Subjects Research Training Certificate

• Pilot new E.R. Studies

PED 5901

Clinical Research Methods II

Department of

Pediatrics

"Academic Associates"

Maija Holsti, MD, MPH

Elizabeth Arrigona, BA

Primary Children’s Medical Center

University of Utah School of Medicine

Salt Lake City, Utah

Research Education

Course

Requirements

• Students function as a “Physician Extender”

Academic Associates

Physician Extenders

Academic Associates

Student Objectives

Summary of Academic

Associates Benefits

• Gain research experience

• Work in a clinical environment

• Interact with patients and families

• Opportunity to be a TA

• Opportunities for shadowing

• Opportunities for employment

• Option of obtaining a minor

PED 5902

Clinical Research & Medicine

"Physician Extenders"

• Maija Holsti, MD, MPH – Medical Director, Pediatric Research Education

• Howard Kadish, MD, MBA – Chief, Pediatric Emergency Medicine

• Elizabeth Arrigona, BA - Program Coordinator

Primary Children’s Medical Center

University of Utah School of Medicine

Salt Lake City, Utah

• Difficult IUD Insertions

Sample Topics

• Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury

• Progress in Genetic Studies of Congenital Heart Defects

• Effects of Concussion Laws on ED Care for Children with Sports-Related Head Injuries

• Disclosure of Unanticipated Medical Outcomes to Patients and Family Members

• Impact of Geography & Ethnicity on Outcomes and Burden of Care in Pediatric Oncology Patients

PED 5700

Survey of Pediatric

Research-In-Progress

Find out more:

• Can be taken for 3.0 credits

• Offered both "in person" and online

• Analysis of faculty research that is

currently in progress

• Possible research opportunities

http://medicine.utah.edu/pediatrics/research_education

PED 5950

Pediatric

Clinical Research

PED 5999

Contact:

Program Coordinator: Elizabeth Arrigona

Elizabeth.arrigona@hsc.utah.edu

Pediatrics

Teaching Experience

• Independent study research credit by arrangement with individual faculty/instructor

• Can be for 2.0 - 7.0 credits

• Assist with classroom & clinical instruction under supervision of course instructor

• Prerequisite: Minimum of A- in PED5900

• 3.0 Credit Hours

• Co-requisite: Minor status in Pediatric Clinical Research