Education, Training, and Career Development at YCCI
One of YCCI’s most important missions is to attract the best and the brightest students, fellows, and junior faculty members to careers in clinical research, and offer them the training necessary to master a daunting array of research approaches and technologies and work effectively within complex teams.
Since its inception in 2006, YCCI has launched a number of initiatives to enhance the training of tomorrow’s leaders in clinical and translational research. The foundation of YCCI rests on the strength of its core faculty or “Society of Mentors,” a diverse and accomplished group of senior investigators committed to training the next generation of clinical scholars. The YCCI Junior Faculty Scholars Program is focused on furthering the training of junior faculty members or postdoctoral fellows who are ready to transition to faculty and are strongly committed to careers in clinical or translational research. YCCI has also expanded Yale’s unique Investigative Medicine Program, which offers a PhD degree in Health Sciences to a select group of MD postdoctoral fellows. This highly innovative and successful program serves as the administrative home for the educational component of the CTSA and its courses are also available to all trainees and faculty in the medical center. YCCI has also brought under its educational umbrella a broad group of fellows and students from such programs as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJ) Clinical Scholars Program and the HHMI “Med into Grad” component of Yale’s interdepartmental PhD Program in Biological & Biomedical Sciences (BBS). YCCI’s vision is to create a unique educational environment for the training of future interdisciplinary teams of scientists.
