The ATCR Seminar plays a crucial role in your research training. It is a chance to have your work intensively critiqued by a group of interested peers and helps bring together in practical situations the theoretical topics covered in other parts of ATCR. It also gives you experience critiquing others' work, which will be a regular task in your professional activities. Thus, it will familiarize you with the very important informal peer review process - a linchpin of quality research. The Fall Quarter is dedicated to review of protocols created in the Summer Designing Clinical Research Course. The Winter and Spring Quarters are used to discuss the implementation of your work, including your questionnaires, abstracts, manuscripts, or new protocols.
Hence, the objectives for the seminar are for scholars to:
- Demonstrate the ability to critically review work-in-progress of other colleagues/investigators.
- Demonstrate skill in presenting one's own clinical research projects to colleagues.