# Clinician Scholar Career Development Program (CSCDP)

> **NIH NIH R13** · CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU · 2020 · $30,000

## Abstract

Project Summary
The Clinician Scholar Career Development Program (CSCDP) is an annual two-day training workshop for
orthopaedic residents in their PGY2-PGY5 years, surgeons in fellowships, and junior faculty (through year
three) who have the potential and desire to become orthopaedic clinician scholars. Clinician scholars advance
the field of orthopaedics through innovative research and peer-reviewed funding. The CSCDP seeks the best
and the brightest; CSCDP participants are selected via a highly competitive application process. The program
was created in 2003 as the Clinician Scientist Development Program to address a growing concern over the
steady decline of orthopaedic clinician researchers and to confront the lack of basic and clinical research in
many residency programs. The CSCDP has been a partnership between the American Academy of
Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS), and the Orthopaedic Research and
Education Foundation (OREF) since its inception, and has expanded over the years to include more
participants and cover a wide array of issues spanning the career timeline of a clinician scholar. General
session topics include “Beginning Your Career as a Clinician Scientist (Scholar)”; “Orthopaedic Research:
Bench or Bedside?”; “Building Blocks for a Successful Clinician Scientist Career”; “Challenges and Successes:
Personal Experiences from CSCDP Graduates”; “Work-Life Balance”; “Research Collaboration”; and
“Resources and Opportunities for Research Funding”. Program participants seek to enhance the competencies
needed for success as both a surgeon and a scientist: scientific knowledge, professionalism, responsible
conduct of research, research skill development, management and leadership skills, and communication skills.
The CSCDP has a proven track record of success and offers world-class scientific faculty mentors, including
department chairs, NIH R01 and other grant recipients, and highly published authors. The two-day program
includes didactic lectures, interactive small group breakout discussions, networking meals, and interactive
panel discussions with faculty. Participants in the program gain insight into pathways to success in a scholarly
career through departmental support, protected research time, collaboration, funding resources, and work-life
balance. They learn to maximize efficiency based on individual career priorities and increased awareness of
grant funding opportunities. By the end of the program, participants are able to create 5- and 10-year plans for
their career development with concrete clinical and research goals.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9969045
- **Project number:** 5R13AR076258-02
- **Recipient organization:** CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU
- **Principal Investigator:** Kurt Paul Spindler
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $30,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-07-01 → 2023-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9969045

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9969045, Clinician Scholar Career Development Program (CSCDP) (5R13AR076258-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-21 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9969045. Licensed CC0.

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