The Clinical Research Education and Career Development (CRECD) program at Meharry Medical College offers a two-year fellowship for Physicians and other doctoral-level care professionals leading to a Masters of Science for Clinical Investigation (MSCI) degree. The program’s ambitions are to expand the cadre of well-trained clinical researchers, particularly minorities, and foster careers in clinical investigation that will address racial and ethnic health disparities. The curriculum has two major tracts: 1) Patient Oriented and 2) Epidemiology/Health Service research. The program’s curriculum includes core didactic, elective and experimental design sessions for clinical research training that spans the spectrum of translational science ranging form molecular medicine to epidemiology to qualitative research providing fundamental skills and methodology required by well-trained independent clinical investigators.