Career Development Grant Outcomes
Conditions
Keywords
K Grant, Career Advancement, Award, Consultation, Application, K, The NIH priority score of the reviewed proposal., Percent of subjects who obtain funding for proposal., Percent of subjects who submit proposals for funding.
Brief summary
In this study we wish is to determine whether extensive (up to 15 hours) multidisciplinary consultation in biostatistics, study design, data management, ethics, and writing provided by the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute's (CTSI) Consultation Services program, improves peer review scores of career development grants compared to usual levels of consultation. We hypothesize that extensive multidisciplinary consultation will improve peer review scores of career development grants compared to usual levels of consultation. We hypothesize that extensive multidisciplinary consultation will lead to greater numbers of funded grants when compared to the usual levels of consultation.
Detailed description
CTSI Consultation Services is one of the largest programs within the UCSF CTSI. It was created to improve the quality and efficiency of clinical and translational research through the provision of expert consultation. The program is divided into units that provide access to expert consultants in biostatistics, research design (with consultants representing multiple distinct methodologies and disease interests), data management (including data structure and database design), ethics, and scientific writing. With funding from the NIH, the program is able to offer a free hour of consultation in each of its units (up to 4 hours) but charges for additional services to cover costs. There have been no studies of research consultation services. Though the benefit may seem self evident, such programs are expensive and distract senior researcher from more creative work. Justifying research consultation is important given the multitude of activities vying for attention and funding. Observational studies of the impact of research consultation services will always be limited by confounding, particularly confounding by indication since those seeking such services may be more highly motivated and organized. Thus, a randomized trial is warranted.
Interventions
OTHERExtensive Consultations
receives 15 free hours of multidisciplinary consultations towards the preparation of their career development grant.
Sponsors
University of California, San Francisco
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Applying for a Career Development grant from the NIH. * Anticipated submission date is 3 or more months in the future * Resident, fellow, or junior faculty member at UCSF or a CTSI-affiliated institution. * Recognized potential benefit from additional consultation * Additional areas that could be improved as judged by the subject and the initial consultant * Adequate time to provide consultation before submission date
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| NIH priority score of the reviewed proposal, with unsubmitted or unscored proposals counted as priority scores that are right-censored at 300 (old system) or 50 (new system) | 30 Months |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Percentage of subjects who obtain funding for the submitted proposal | 30 Months |
| Institute-specific percentile of the priority score | 30 Months |
| Percentage of subjects who submit proposals for funding | 30 Months |
| Percentage of subjects who received a good score (<40 or <200) which may be associated with future funding of a resubmission | 30 Months |
| Percentage of subjects who obtained any career development award funding | 30 Months |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed