Seminars and Professional Trainings
Seminars and Professional Trainings
The CTSI offers monthly seminars and trainings to meet the needs of a busy and varied workforce. These educational opportunities are available to assist faculty and staff through different stages of the clinical and translational science spectrum.
Monthly Professional Development Seminar Series
The CTSI holds a series of seminars for clinical and translational science researchers. There are programs for for graduate students and early career clinical and translational scientists at Ohio State and Nationwide Children’s Hospital. The topics focus on issues related to career development, grant writing, managing research teams, research methodology and the responsible conduct of research, among others.
Faculty Development Seminar Series
Audience: Early-career faculty, faculty on K grants
Early-career faculty and faculty on K grants that are engaged in clinical and translational research are invited to to attend the Faculty Development Seminar Series. Topics include navigating research careers, building strong teams and collaborations, ensuring research quality and integrity, engaging stakeholders, grant writing and exploring funding and commercialization opportunities.
Trainee Development Seminar Series
Audience: Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and T32 awardees
The Trainee Development Seminar Series is for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and T32 awardees across Ohio State and nationwide Children's Hospital engaged in the clinical and translational research. Topics focus on career development, grant writing, research methodology, publication metrics and the responsible conduct of research.
Clinical Research Professional Monthly Training Series
Clinical and translational research requires a fully trained and educated team, including clinical research professionals (CRPs). Such preparation ensures that we are all conducting clinical research studies with efficiency, safety, reliability and compliance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP), regulations and policies. CRPs are defined as those non-faculty staff who work in roles that operationalize clinical research, such as (but not limited to) clinical research assistants, clinical research coordinators, clinical research nurses and roles in data management, regulatory affairs and project management.
Clinical Research Professional Trainings Series (CRPTS)
Audience: Clinical Research Professionals and research staff
The CRPTS covers essential topics for Clinical Research Professionals, such as certification prep (ACRP, SoCRA), CITI training, external learning resources and practical guidance for poster and podium presentations.
Other Educational Trainings
Tools of the Trade
Audience: Early-faculty, postdoctoral trainees, graduate students and research staff
These educational sessions are designed to introduce researchers and staff to a wide range of research tools and resources, both new and existing, that can help launch projects and enhance scientific progress.
Tools of the Trade Programming will Return in 2026.
Recruitment Cafes
Audience: Investigators and research staff
Recruitment Cafes share new opportunities and alleviate challenges to reach study participants. These sessions dive into recruitment tactics available and how the CTSI Recruitment and Retention team can help your efforts.
CTSI Video Repository
Here, you'll find a collection of videos with training and educational resources designed to enhance your skills and knowledge or to take a dive deep into specialized topics. Explore our library and empower yourself with the tools and information you need to succeed.
CTSI Video Repository
Here, you'll find a collection of videos with training and educational resources designed to enhance your skills and knowledge or to take a dive deep into specialized topics. Explore our library and empower yourself with the tools and information you need to succeed.