Education, Training & Career Development at YCCI

YCCI attracts and trains highly talented pre- and post-doctoral students and junior faculty members across medicine, nursing, public health, biology, and biomedical engineering; imbues them with a spirit of discovery; trains them in the use of state-of-the-art research tools; gives them the skills to work within complex research teams; and supports their professional development while at Yale and beyond. This is accomplished by moving from a traditional system of education in which students select individual mentors to an integrated mentoring program led by an interdisciplinary team of mentors. We believe that this new educational infrastructure or “home” will provide the next generation of clinical investigators with a significantly broader grounding in the essential elements of clinical and translational research.

YCCI will train a new generation of clinical scholars with strong methodological skills, an understanding of how to work within multidisciplinary teams, and a commitment to improve the health of people and populations.

Yale’s YCCI Scholars will gain the medical and scientific background to ask important questions, the tools to test hypotheses, the courage to question conventional wisdom, and the competence to function successfully as a member and leader of teams. The educational efforts of YCCI are led by an accomplished team of faculty mentors from diverse backgrounds, who in turn select highly motivated students and junior faculty members and train them for careers in clinical and translational research. As described below, training programs are collected together under the umbrella of Yale’s existing and highly successful Investigative Medicine Program (IMP).

The Education, Training, and Career Development programs of YCCI build on the exceptionally strong foundation provided by Yale’s network of existing programs.

Education, Training & Career Development Contact

• Nicholas Licht
  (203) 785-4183
  Nicholas.Licht@yale.edu