Methods in Epidemiologic, Clinical and Operations Research (MECOR)
| Dates: | 20-25 October, 2025 |
| Location: | Hotel Hyatt Regency - Mérida, Mexico |
| Registration Fee: |
ALAT and ATS members: Early bird, until May 1st: 200 USD Standard price: 250 USD
Early bird, until May 1st: 300 USD Standard price: 350 USD |
| Application Dates: |
February 17 to June 2, 2025. |
| Application: | Opening soon |
| MECOR Faculty: | MECOR Course Director: Juliana Ferreira MECOR Course Coordinator: Berenice Soto Monciváis ATS Senior Manager, Global Health: Jadir Oliveira |
ATS MECOR 2.0 Program
The American Thoracic Society (ATS) Methods in Epidemiologic, Clinical, and Operations Research (MECOR) Program is a multi-level research methods training course intended for clinicians, investigators, academicians, and public health professionals who primarily work with pulmonary diseases. The objective of the MECOR Program is to prepare current or aspiring investigators, academicians, clinicians and public health practitioners to design and conduct research that is relevant to the needs of the settings in which they work. The overall goal of the MECOR Program is to aid the improvement of global lung health through the development of local, country, and regional lung disease research capacity in low and middle-income countries. For additional information in Spanish and Portuguese, please click here to visit the ALAT website.
Program Structure
During the spring of 2018, the ATS launched MECOR 2.0, which includes a ground-up redesign of the curriculum, course organization, and faculty/mentorship opportunities. The updated program capitalizes and builds upon the program’s extensive experience and expertise with the renewed goal that each participant completes the program with a research manuscript ready for publication. The curriculum utilizes a “flipped classroom” active learning teaching model with seminar style classroom sessions and a focus on one to one instruction with a learning management system available for students, faculty, and alumni.
The ATS MECOR 2.0 Curriculum is designed to provide training through a series of intensive one week-long classroom-based programs that combine online remote learning activities, lectures, group discussion and individual protocol development time with a mentor over a 2-year period.
