Spring 2027

Clinical & Translational Research Elective

A Clinical & Translational Research Elective for fourth-year medical students in the PhD program to integrate clinical work with a clinical or translational research project, offering hands-on experience as a physician-scientist.

offering recorded2–6 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate knowledge of clinical research design

  • Conduct clinical research project

  • Demonstrate ability to integrate clinical medicine and research investigations

  • Apply and adapt knowledge of the research regulatory process

  • Describe the public health needs of the community and state of Wisconsin as they relate to the clinical research project and determine the impact of the research project on those concerns

  • Assess public opinion (community members and constituents) of clinical research

  • Exhibit skills in the analysis of clinical research data

  • Communicate the outcomes and impact of a clinical research project to general public

  • Communicate the results of a clinical research project to an academic audience

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

↗
average GPA
letter grades

No recorded grade history.

All recorded terms · compare terms & instructors

Prerequisites

Course map

Declared in Doctor of Medicine program

  • Declared in Doctor of Medicine program
MEDICINE 902

This is a best-effort interpretation; check the catalog requirements above.

Prerequisite text tree
  • Declared in Doctor of Medicine program

Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

Schedule loads here as you scroll.

SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 061Classroom Instruction0 / 00
LEC 005Classroom Instruction0 / 00
LEC 042Classroom Instruction0 / 00
LEC 062Classroom Instruction0 / 00
LEC 064Classroom Instruction0 / 40

Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.

Meeting source records
Download part 1

Student experience

the class

Unique opportunity for fourth year medical students in the PhD program to integrate clinical work with a clinical or translational research project, thus providing early exposure and hands-on experience with clinically-oriented research and the integrated career of a physician-scientist in the students' chosen clinical specialty. Course components construct the experience of six weeks in the life of a practicing physician-scientist, balancing clinical practice, research on a project relevant to community public health, study design, manuscript preparation, regulatory meetings, and public outreach - all under the guidance of a dedicated physician-scientist mentor. Intended for MSTP students in Phase 3 of ForWard curriculum

difficulty & workload

No workload feedback recorded.

Topics

  • Integration of clinical work and translational research
  • Community public health research
  • Study design, manuscript preparation, regulatory compliance, and public outreach

Skills

  • Clinical research design
  • Conducting clinical research projects
  • Research regulatory processes
  • Analysis of clinical research data
  • Academic communication of research results

Grades

Instructor

Grade distribution · % of letter grades

No grades available yet.

More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

Observations at scan time; dates do not imply when a catalog change took effect.

Download part 1
Selected offering source records
MEDICINE 902 · Spring 2027

Clinical & Translational Research Elective

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
[
  {
    "run_id": "20261014T203208-0851c9a1",
    "semester": "1274",
    "observed_at": "2026-10-14 17:50:09.728220+00:00",
    "offering_id": "1274:632:022579",
    "course_id": "MEDICINE 902",
    "course_uid": "course_8d86a46b82417e7e0941b602",
    "term_id": "1274",
    "source_course_id": "022579",
    "source_subject_id": "632",
    "title": "Clinical & Translational Research Elective",
    "credits_min": 2,
    "credits_max": 6,
    "typically_offered": "Occasionally"
  }
]
Rate My Professors

Student reviews

Original comments behind the course and instructor summaries.

Read original reviews

No records available.

Madgrades

Grade history

Recorded grade distributions by term, section, and instructor.

Explore recorded grades
Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

View the dataset on Hugging Face
Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
LLM outputs across runs
Download part 1
Full model traces

Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.

Download part 1
Model & dataset provenance 
{
  "model": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B",
  "model_revision": "1d4bf0f2ff6012fd82039f2fa52739d0dd7c60c0",
  "task_version": "17",
  "output_id": "23bc6c61dc7c042e101d5bc32e2e05412bb903d9b95b155b7abbdfbbc4a15ea8",
  "requirements_status": "valid",
  "dataset_revision": "fc1811fa52e581ea57a35c0cf3343f8740a8ffbf",
  "observed_at": "2026-10-14 17:50:09.728220+00:00"
}