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Mar 11 Coerced Participation in Clinical Trials: Conscripting Human Research Subjects
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Mar 25 Mental Health and the Law
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CIHR Training Program in
Health Law, Ethics and Policy
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
84 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C5
email: info@healthlawtraining.ca
Tel: 1 + 416.978.3724
Fax: 1 + 416.978.2648

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Admission and Application Process
Stipends
Program Benefits

The following conditions apply to students admitted to the program:

  • Funded students many not exceed 12 hours per week of paid employment during academic year.

  • Funded students must immediately advise the program coordinator of any scholarships, grants, or awards received in support of your graduate studies. Award recipients are allowed to hold additional awards (excluding additional awards from any of the Tri-Agency: CIHR, NSERC & SSHRC) provided that the total value of the additional awards during the period of overlap with the CIHR award does not exceed 50% of the CIHR stipend. The Program Coordinating Committee recognizes that students may, on occasion, experience exceptional financial hardships. In the event that a student can demonstrate exceptional financial need, he or she can apply to the Program Coordinating Committee to request that the 50% rule be waived. The discretion rests entirely with the PCC.

  • All students must attend/participate in the Annual Boot Camp session – held every year

  • All student must present their research work at the Annual Colloquium and participate in all event sessions - presentations are made before an audience of leading health law academics and government decision-makers, you are expected to attend both days of the conference .

  • All students must attend/participate in the Annual Skills Workshop – during this workshop students are given training in research grant writing, pedagogical skills, and research methodologies.

  • All student are expected to attend the Health Law Seminar series workshops organized at their home university – refer to the program benefit session for more information

  • All students must acknowledge the training program in publications or presentations arising from the research supported by the program.

  • All students are expected to complete the ethics training requirements as set out by the Program Coordinating Committee and their home university

  • Over the course of the academic year, students are expected to provide feedback on the program.

  • All students are expected to complete at least one significant Knowledge Translation Project. Options include making a presentation to health professionals or medical students, writing an opinion/editorial article for a newspaper, or preparing an article submission for a professional journal.

 

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