Clinical research

used during missions to indicate support for fellow soldiers. However, this term is relevant for service members and civilians alike, and is a term that resonates with me. As a clinical psychologist it is necessary to support your clients, and it is a phrase to symbolize collaboration, a necessity when conducting research. Before and throughout my time at the University of Virginia, my personal history and my combination of volunteer opportunities, classwork, and labwork shaped my future career…

Evidence-based practice (EBP) in psychology entails combination of high end research and tested clinical expertise in tackling diverse patient issues such as culture and preferences (Carlstedt, 2010). As such, it is instrumental in maintaining patient satisfaction and improving their health and wellness status. Additionally, it allows experts to develop new approaches in the context of patient characteristic since social sciences change over time. Specifically, modern world experiences…

Joseph Magruder MSW are Graduate Student Researchers, Center for Social Services Research, School of…

everything. In this assignment, though we decided to do a research question which I was not familiar with or not in my expertise area, I was able to engage in the activities and learn out of it. I was able to participate in some common grounds when we discuss about our team assignment. In such was, I learn the process and principles of doing a meta-analysis. However, I couldn’t deny one thing that it was very challenging to work on a research area which is not in one’s area of expertise. It was…

generally publicly funded, however, increasingly the use of corporate funding changed science. As the use of corporate funding is increased, science becomes less moral. According to Understanding Science by Berkeley University, almost 75% of U.S clinical trials in medicine are paid for by private companies, (Casazza, Gilet, Stuart). Corporate funding is on the raise. As corporate funding increases, the worry that biases coming from corporations will grow. Furthermore, the worry is that these…

specified hypothesis. I apply these teachings to my interest to conduct research. Conducting research can help me understand the foundation of an experimental process, as well as the methods executed in order to accept or deny a potential theory. Being a Biology major with a minor in Chemistry, a great amount of research is needed in order to gain clarity on the curriculum that is being taught. As a participant of the Short-Term Research Experience for Underrepresented Persons (STEP-UP) program,…

What is the difference between intervention research and systems research? Intervention research is used for implementing change, evaluating, and prevention. Public health uses intervention in many different forms but most importantly it is used to change, evaluate and to prevent. According to Shi & Johnson (2014), “EBPH has borrowed the term intervention from clinical disciplines, insinuating specificity and discreteness. However, in public health, we seldom have a single “intervention,” but…

Capacity to Give Informed Consent in Research and Evaluation with Individuals with Dementia Informed consent is arguably the cornerstone of ethical social science research and evaluation. Before an institutional review board-approved (IRB) project can begin, researchers and evaluators are required to openly communicate with potential subjects about the benefits and possible risks of their participation and to establish their voluntary willingness to participate.1 When a proposed project involves…

Forensic Forensic psychology applies principles of psychology to legal questions and issues. Even though, psychologists were involved in providing expert testimonies since the early 1900’s but it was in 1962 that U.S District Court of Appeals clearly recognized the role of psychologists as experts in court and by 2001 council of representatives of the APA voted to recognize forensic psychology as a speciality in psychology. The main role of forensic psychologist is to evaluate and conduct…

perfectly suits in my long-standing interest in novel ways to treat cancer and other multifactorial diseases, and since I have previous experience in the inhibition of cell signaling pathways in melanoma, I believe we could establish a productive research relationship. After I earned my doctoral degree in Microbiology, my first postdoctoral appointment in U.S was in the laboratory of Dr. Keiran Smalley at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center. Our main objective was to develop novel therapeutic…