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The SRTC scholar curriculum is
structured around two key components:
- Completing a core skin research foundation
course that is compulsory for all scholars,
and
- Building a customized advanced skin
research portfolio in a specific aspect
of skin research for each scholar.
Each scholar attends a skin research
foundation course (lecture series and
journal discussion meeting) that examines
all aspects of skin research including
lectures
on;
- Biology and function of skin
- Principles of skin disease
- Skin disease epidemiology
- Specific diseases and their clinical
treatments
- Disease diagnostic approaches and
instruments
- Research methodology
- Research knowledge translation
- Principles and ethics of skin research
In addition to satisfactorily completing
the skin research foundation course,
each scholar will initiate and maintain
an advanced skin research portfolio that
will be used throughout his/her training
period and beyond.
The portfolio will
include the following:
- Training Goals,
- Project Progress Reports,
- Courses/Seminars/Workshops
Attended,
- Scientific Presentations,
- Publications,
- Grant Application
Submissions,
- Abstract
Submissions,
- Teaching
Activities Performed,
- Scientific
Conferences Attended,
- Scientific Conferences
chaired or organized.
The portfolio will be developed
and
monitored with the guidance of a
primary supervisor
and will include mutually agreed
upon goals and objectives tailored
to the
individual scholars and their levels
of expertise.
A secondary mentor
will also be chosen from a differing
field of
expertise. The secondary mentor
will formally meet
with both student and primary
mentor on a regular basis. The purpose
of this meeting will be to closely
monitor progress towards the stated
goals
and
objectives as well as provide
an opportunity to broaden the scope of
the
work as
appropriate.
Feedback to scholars
will be formative
via day-to-day interactions
with supervisors and course instructors,
and summative
in the form of regular
formal assessments.
Graduate students will be
evaluated
in conjunction with their official
Graduate Student Advisory Committees.
Summer
students
will be expected to present their
work at one of the CIHR Skin Research
Seminars
at the end of their studentship.
They will be evaluated on this, their
participation,
and their day-to-day work on
their projects.
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