To support the clinical research profile, the U-M Medical School Department of Urology has an in-house study design, data and statistical consulting service to assist Urology residents and fellows in both meeting their research needs and achieving their career goals.
This service is run by a team of experienced research faculty and statisticians that support clinical research efforts through design, analytic, educational and infrastructure/data support.
The program helps build long-term relationships with members of the department by ensuring satisfaction with current best practices: prompt turnaround times, sophisticated methodology and expertise in clinical research.
All residents attend the Urology Research Methods Course taught by Dr. Aruna V. Sarma. This course entails 2 didactic sessions each held once a year.
- Session 1: Intro to Epidemiology
- Session 2: Intro to Statistics
Held in the spring of each year, the Urology Resident Research Symposium provides a venue for each resident to present a completed research project.
Two established research scientists from outside the Department are invited to deliver keynote lectures and to serve as judges. The winner is awarded the Julian Wan, MD Research Excellence Award.
Led by Dr. Mark Day, the Department of Urology has launched the EBTR program with the goal of educating and assisting young urologic scientists in the translational application of molecular and cellular biology in urological disease and assist urology trainees in the preparation of competitive grant applications.
Objectives:
- Delivering lectures on scientific research techniques used in tumor biology, molecular biology, cellular biology and their relevance to urological disease.
- Hosting journal clubs focused on basic/translational sciences in urology or other areas of clinical application.
- Coordinating a research proposal boot camp for Urology faculty who are within a year of submitting a large grant application (R01 or equivalent) focusing on highly developed research projects
- Meetings to discuss aspects of writing and submitting a competitive application with the goal of having completed an application at the end of one year (or less).
- Facilitating a faculty/fellow workshop on how to be an effective grant reviewer.
- Deliver a lecture on research ethics and integrity.
- Serving on mentorship teams for individual residents/fellows and junior faculty pursuing basic science/translational research, health services research or clinical research.
- Advise on the preparation of scientific manuscripts and presentations for all trainees and junior faculty, if so desired.
The purpose of the Urology Incubator Lab is to facilitate technical scientific work by residents in clinical training. Projects must include at least one faculty mentor (Urology or non-Urology), and results can inspire future resident projects. The typical study timeline is 12 months or less.
Projects up to $10,000 are eligible for funding.
- Who Can Apply: PGY-2 urology residents and higher with a faculty mentor. (Fellows are not eligible.)
- Application Process: Submit a 1-page Aims Page/Research Plan with a separate budget.
- Project Timeline: Durations of 3, 6, and 12 months will be considered.
- Submission Deadline: None; continuous submission is allowed.
- Project Encouragement: Translational/correlative science and health services research projects encouraged
- Funding Examples:
- Correlative Science: Construction/staining of tissue microarray, simple cell line studies (conducted by translational labs)
- Health Services Research (HSR): Data acquisition, analytic support programming help
Professor of Urology
Associate Chair
Research and Program Director
FPMRS Fellowship Ongoing
Medical School
Urology Section Head
Dow Division of Health Services Research Assistant Dean for Research Faculty
Medical School Research Professor
Epidemiology, School of Public Health
