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The FIRST Program offers a comprehensive menu of services to clinical investigators in the Department of Surgery. To request services, please complete the Services Request Form. ​​​​ FIRST Services Request Form Each Services Request Form is reviewed by the FIRST Program Director. Initial follow-up...

Overview The EXPLORE ( Experiential Learning Opportunity in Research) Program aims to pair medical students with a committed faculty mentor for an experiential learning process that teaches applied research methods in a problem-based approach. It is founded on the principle that research methods are...

The Clinical Scholarship Program (CSP) pairs all first-year categorical general surgery residents with a faculty research mentor who guides the resident throughout the year as they acquire the skills to develop and implement a clinical research project. Residents are given one month of protected...

REDCap is a free, secure, web-based application designed to support data capture for research studies. The system was developed by a multi-institutional consortium initiated at Vanderbilt University. Data collection is customized for each study or clinical trial by the research team with guidance...