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Research Career Development Core

The overall goal of the Research Career Development Core (RCDC) is to identify and train a cadre of clinical investigators who will be future leaders in aging research, with the skills necessary to design and conduct epidemiologic and intervention studies of multifactorial geriatric health conditions.

To achieve the goals stated above, the specific aims are:

1. To promote career development and acquisition of research skills of selected junior faculty through the provision of salary, infrastructural/technical, and other career development support. Candidates must be within 2 to 5 years of their first faculty appointment.
2. To provide and facilitate priority access by junior faculty to the resource cores' expertise and services for the design, conduct, and analysis of studies addressing multifactorial geriatric health conditions.
3. To sponsor a yearly junior faculty retreat to provide intensive training and support in research career development.
4. To provide and facilitate access to educational activities in aging research locally and nationally.
5. To enhance access to other career development resources, such as protocol development and staff training, geriatric instrument catalog, grant and questionnaire resource libraries, information on funding sources, assistance with identifying study populations, and assistance with identifying mentors and collaborators.
6. To advance education and career development for Yale Pepper Center staff across all cores.

For detailed information about the resources that the RCDC provides towards achieving these goals, please click here.

For more information on patient-oriented research faculty training resources at Yale, please see http://por.med.yale.edu/.