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Fall 2008: Building Interdisciplinary Research Methods |
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- Course Directors: Kristine
Gebbie, RN, PhD and guest CUMC Faculty
- Course Number: Nursing N9260
or Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies G9260, "Building
Interdisciplinary Research Methods"
- Course Meetings:
Fall Semester 2008
Wednesdays from 3:00pm - 4:50pm
Location: 410 Hammer Health Sciences Center
- Description: Interdisciplinary
research is an to advancing scientific knowledge
requiring mastery of specific competencies. This seminar will
introduce the students to competencies in interdisciplinary research
through a combination of readings and lectures in each necessary
aspect, chosen from fields essential to successful interdisciplinary
research.
- Credits: 3
- Objectives: At the completion
of this seminar the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate a working knowledge and
beginning mastery of research competencies shown to be important for
successful interdisciplinary collaborations. These include:
- Engage in discussion with
scholars from other disciplines to gain their perspectives on
research problems of relevance to nursing
- Translate nursing research
into language meaningful to an
interdisciplinary team
- Articulate theories of disciplines
other than nursing through reading non-nursing journals and discussion
of issues with members of related disciplines
- Collaborate respectfully,
equitably and regularly with colleagues from other disciplines to
develop sustainable interdisciplinary research teams
- Apply theories and methods of
multiple disciplines in developing integrated theoretical and
research frameworks
- Modify his or her own research
agenda as a result of interactions with colleagues from fields other
than his or her own
- Method of Instruction
- Each week will include a brief
presentation of a competency topic, followed by a presentation of
current research illustrative of the challenges encountered in that
aspect of interdisciplinary scholarship, and will include one or more
research critiques presented by students as assigned.
- Method of
Evaluation
- Class participation.
Students must be prepared for discussion with cogent and
facilitative questions and rely on evidence from the literature to
support their arguments rather than first-person testimonials and
anecdotes (30%).
- Research Critiques. Each
student will be assigned a week's topic, and will present a critique
of 2 interdisciplinary articles relevant to that topic, from
journals in differing fields. The critique should cover the
following elements: disciplines involved; key terms, concepts, and
approaches used in the study; evidence that an interdisciplinary
model was (or was not) useful in answering the research question;
recommendations for improving the interdisciplinary nature of the
project; and clarity of the presentation (30%).
- Paper on interdisciplinary impact on
own research plans (20%). Papers will be graded using the
following criteria:
- Clarity of the description of the
interdisciplinary plans
- Rationale for an interdisciplinary
approach
- Anticipated strengths and challenges
of using an interdisciplinary approach
- Strategies for reducing potential
challenges
- Based on the competencies described
in the course, students will perform a pre-post self-assessment of
interdisciplinary research competencies at the beginning and end of
the course, e.g., "Based on a scale from 1='Not at all,' to
5='Extensively', please rate the extent to which you practice each
of the following competencies. For each competency, give an
example" (20%).
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Spring 2010: Global Antimicrobial Resistance |
- Course Director: Richard Kessin,
PhD
- Course Number: Microbiology
G6025 or Nursing N6810, "Global Antimicrobial Resistance: An Interdisciplinary Approach
to Antimicrobial Resistance"
- Prerequisites: Students will
need basic background in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
CMBS G4150 (Microbial Molecular Genetics) is helpful but not required.
- Description: Despite numerous
control measures and programmatic efforts in healthcare and community
settings, antimicrobial resistance presents an increasing threat to
the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. This course
addresses the global problem of antimicrobial resistance from an
interdisciplinary perspective. The problem will be examined by a
variety of experts, discussing biologic, sociologic, epidemiologic,
statistical, economic, clinical, pharmacologic, health care systems
and policy, and bio-behavioral perspectives.
- Credits: 3
- Objectives: At the completion
of this course, the student will be able to:
- Discuss the magnitude of the problem
of antimicrobial resistance.
- Trace the emergence of resistance in
one or more specific case studies, including biologic,
epidemiologic, behavioral, and healthcare systems factors which have
facilitated or hindered the emergence and spread of the problem.
- Assess prevention and control
measures that have been implemented in various settings (the
community, hospital, countries with fewer resources) in terms of
their effectiveness at preventing or slowing the spread of
resistance.
- Using a cross-cutting,
interdisciplinary approach, design a project to address an
antimicrobial resistance problem. The project may be, for example, a
research study; a policy, modeling or economic analysis; a
community- or healthcare institution-based intervention project.
- Method of Instruction:
Lecture sessions and literature sessions. Lecture sessions are
presentations by leading experts in each area. Literature
sessions are discussions of one or two specific research papers, led
by the respective expert.
- Course Meetings: Spring Semester 2010 (Dates,
Times, and Location TBA)
NOTE: ALL LECTURE SESSIONS ARE
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
- Method of Evaluation: Grades
based upon
- Class participation during the
literature sessions;
- An oral presentation of a research
topic by each student;
- A 10-page double-spaced paper that
each student prepares on the topic of the oral presentation
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Supervised Field Experience in Interdisciplinary Research on
Antimicrobial Resistance |
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- Description: An essential
component of this pre- and postdoctoral fellowship in
Interdisciplinary Research on Antimicrobial Resistance is a field
experience in which each fellow is exposed to aspects of research
regarding resistance with which they have not been previously
familiar, or using research methods with which they have not developed
skill. Therefore, the experience will be scheduled during the first
year of the fellowship to assist fellows to further identify the
interdisciplinary aspects of their research. The selection of
the center or mentors will be based on the fellows’ proposed research
interests and might include: working with a new population or in a
setting in which the fellow has no previous experience (e.g. a
laboratory scientist working in the community, health department or a
healthcare setting; a social scientist working in a laboratory; a
clinician using mathematical modeling or social networking analyses to
examine transmission dynamics or working with an economist or health
policy mentor to assess the potential systems effects or policy
implications of his/her research.
- Objectives: At the completion
of this experience, the fellow will draft a publishable manuscript
related to the field experience, having completed the following:
- Expand his/her research aims to
include an interdisciplinary perspective.
- Identify collaborators/mentors for
his/her research project.
- Participate in the ongoing
interdisciplinary research of the assigned mentor(s).
- Complete a specific
interdisciplinary project.
- Requirements:
- Active participation in field
experience
- Create publishable manuscript
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Examples of Field Experience Preceptors/Sites
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Peter Bearman |
Director, Institute for Social
and Economic Research and Policy at CU |
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Robert
MacArthur |
Director,
Columbia-Presbyterian
Medical
Center Research Pharmacy |
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Nathaniel
Hupert |
Physician & Mathematical
Modeler, Weill Cornell Medical Center (Affiliated with CUMC) |
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Melissa Marx |
Epidemiologist, NYC Dept of Health & Mental Hygiene |
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Barry
Kreiswirth |
Director,
Public
Health
Research
Institute Tuberculosis Center; Adjunct Prof, CUMC |
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Mary Ann
Chiasson |
Vice
President for Research and Evaluation, Medical and Health
Research Association of New York City, Inc.; Prof of
Epidemiology, CUMC |
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Alwyn Cohall
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Director,
Harlem
Health
Promotion
Center; Associate Prof, CUMC |
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Lester Wright
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Medical Director, State
Corrections |
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Other Required Courses and Research Activities |
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All trainees will:
- Complete the "Responsible Conduct of
Research & Related Policy Issues" course.
Instructor: Richard Kessin; Co-Instructor: Jamie Rubin
Course # G4010; 1 Credit; Spring Semester
- Complete the
CUMC on-line Good Clinical Practices & HIPAA courses.
- Regularly attend one Seminar Series
outside of their discipline. Click
here for a list of CUMC departmental research seminar series.
- Attend Fogarty/CIDER Seminar Series
and CIDER Fellows meetings. View
the Calendar for schedule of meetings.
- Attend at least one IRB meeting.
View the meeting schedule and roster on the
IRB
homepage and obtain permission from the appropriate IRB chair
prior to attending. Join the IRB
listserv.
- Lead one CIRAR seminar to update
the group on his/her progress and turn in a written summary to the
TIRAR Directors.
- Attend at least one national meeting
of relevance to his/her research (trainees have $800 available for
travel).
- Produce at least one publishable
manuscript from CIRAR projects or coursework.
- Track each of these requirements in
his/her
trainee portfolio.
- Sign the
TIRAR Trainee
Agreement Form.
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