Call for fellowship programs in stem cell-based regenerative and cellular medicine: new stem cell training is essential for physicians.
Call for fellowship programs in stem cell-based regenerative and cellular medicine: new stem cell training is essential for physicians.
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DOI：
10.2217/rme.13.1
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发表时间：
2013-03
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Knoepfler PS
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作者：
Knoepfler PS
基于干细胞的再生和细胞医学是一个令人兴奋的新兴医疗实践领域。虽然骨髓移植这种基于干细胞的疗法几十年来一直是医学的一部分，但近年来，更新、更多样化的基于干细胞的疗法正在被用于治疗美国和世界范围内快速增长的患者群体。尽管如此，据笔者所知，目前美国还没有一个学术医学奖学金培训项目专门为医生提供除骨髓或造血干细胞移植之外的干细胞疗法治疗患者的培训。尽管如此，越来越多未受过基于干细胞的再生和细胞医学培训的医生仍在将干细胞移植到数百甚至数千名患者体内，以治疗各种不同的病症。此外，随着干细胞技术的进步，越来越多具有学术背景的医生可能会寻求合法地实践再生和细胞医学。医生目前可以获得的培训很少，必须根据具体情况进行培训。本文应呼吁制定正式的学术医学奖学金计划，以培训医生进行细胞和再生医学的实践。这里使用美国作为医疗领域的例子，可以说这种培训会很有帮助，但这样的计划在全球范围内也会非常有帮助。
Stem cell-based regenerative and cellular medicine is an exciting, emerging area of medical practice. While bone marrow transplantation, a stem cell-based therapy, has been a part of medicine for decades, in recent years newer and more diverse forms of stem cell-based therapies are being used to treat a rapidly growing population of patients in the USA as well as worldwide. Nonetheless, to this author’s knowledge, there is currently not a single academic medical fellowship training program in the USA that specifically prepares physicians for treating patients with stem cell-based therapies other than bone marrow or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. An increasing number of physicians untrained in stem cell-based regenerative and cellular medicine are nonetheless transplanting stem cells into hundreds if not thousands of patients for a striking diversity of conditions. Furthermore, as stem cell technology advances, a growing number of physicians with academic affiliations may look to legitimately practice regenerative and cellular medicine. What little training that physicians can currently obtain must be found on an ad hoc basis. This article should act as a call for the development of formal academic medical fellowship programs to train physicians in the practice of cellular and regenerative medicine. The USA is used here as an example of a medical sphere in which it can be argued that such training would be helpful, however such programs would be quite helpful globally.
影响因子：
6
作者：
Feigal, Ellen G.;Tsokas, Katherine;Werner, Michael J.
通讯作者：
Werner, Michael J.