The overall goal of the Colorado StARR Program in Medicine and Pediatrics is to recruit, train, and retain outstanding clinician-investigators focused on translational research in heart, lung, and blood disorders. This career development training will be achieved through seamless integration with our ACGME-accredited Colorado Medicine, Pediatric, Medicine-Pediatrics, and Surgery housestaff training programs, a structured milestone-driven training program that includes individualized career development plans, pairing our resident-investigators with outstanding, dedicated mentors with extensive disease-specific research expertise and a wide array of cutting-edge approaches to research, and providing appropriate oversight of the mentor-mentee relationship. Applications are being accepted now through October 30, 2023. Apply Here!
We also partner with the Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP) to provide support, mentorship, training, and career development opportunities to enhance the experience of housestaff currently enrolled in PSTP. The overall goal of the PSTP is to train academic leaders in medicine, pediatrics, and other clinical programs throughout the School of Medicine. This will be accomplished by attracting the most promising physician-scientists to our programs and providing them with outstanding clinical training while preparing them for a career in academic medicine. While our program is broad, we are especially enthusiastic about attracting trainees pursuing careers in translational research (bench to bedside and bedside to bench). PSTP scholars are included in a community of physician-scientists (MSTP students, StARR scholars, and early physician-scientist faculty) who meet regularly to share related perspectives and experiences.