Trainees

A major goal of the MUSC SCOR is to attract trainees and new faculty to the area of research, particularly patient-oriented research, in women’s health issues. In Table 1 below, trainees that have been involved with the SCOR program are listed. As can be seen, the SCOR involves individuals from diverse disciplines at different levels of training. A number of these individuals have gone on to independent research careers with a focus on women’s health-related issues.

The SCOR’s Pilot Project Program is one of the main mechanisms used to attract trainees and new faculty.  This program has greatly expanded gender-based research across the MUSC campus, facilitated the collection of pilot data, supported young investigators with promising ideas, and/or development of techniques or skills useful for the primary research components.   Each year, 2 or 3 pilot projects are funded. Over the past four years, we have received approximately 60 applications for funding and have funded nine pilot projects. The applications come from a variety of disciplines (Medicine, Epidemiology, Nursing, Neurosciences) and from colleges across campus (Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Graduate Studies and Allied Health). The Principal Investigators of funded pilot projects attend the SCOR monthly meetings, journal clubs and seminars. All pilot projects are supervised and investigators are required to submit a final progress report or publication. In addition, these projects are tracked to determine publication productivity and success in promoting more gender–oriented research. See Table 2 below for a listing of projects and investigators funded and the impact of these projects.