Designing Outcomes & Clinical Research (DOCR)

Fall 2009 Course Information & Resources

Course Master: Brian F. Gage, MD, MSc; Co-Course Master: David Warren, MD

Class Dates/Times:  Wednesdays, 3:30-5:45 p.m. August 26 thru December 16 2009.

Syllabus:  Click here to download the FL09 DOCR Syllabus in PDF format.  This file will be updated over the course of the semester. UPDATED 10/28/09

Class Location:  Fall 2009 classes will be held in Wohl Auditorium (lower level of the Wohl Hosptial Building) unless otherwise noted.

Textbooks:  Either one of two textbooks may be used for this course, Designing Clinical Research 3rd ed. By Stephen B. Hulley et al., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, or Translational and Experimental Medicine by Dan Schuster and William Powers, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Class recordings online: Classes will be recorded and, within the next couple of weeks, be made available for online viewing after the class date. "Live" online viewing will not be available. Please check back here for more information.  

Course Resourses:  Links to homework and other course documents (PowerPoint slides, Excel spreadsheets, Word handouts) will be posted below.  These files will be posted for each class as they are made available.  To save a file to your hard drive, right click on the link and select "Save Target As...". 

This course is offered through the Clinical Research Training Center (CRTC), a component of the Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS).  The ICTS is one of twenty-four medical research institutions working together as a national consortium to improve the way biomedical research is conducted across the country. The consortium, funded through the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA), shares a common vision to reduce the time it takes for laboratory discoveries to become treatments for patients, and to engage communities in clinical research efforts. It is also fulfilling the critical need to train the next generation of clinical researchers. The CTSA initiative is led by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) at the National Institutes of Health.  The CRTC is supported by NCRR Grant Numbers UL1RR024992, KL2RR024994, and TL1RR024995, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, and Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation.