Cologne Clinician Scientist Program

医学院（MF）和科隆大学医院（UHC）的使命是在临床，转化和基础医学研究方面取得卓越成就，以改善患者护理。在过去的十年中，MF系统地建立了科隆临床医生科学家轨道(CCSP) -一个全面的临床医生-科学家资格概念，以促进在国际可见水平上对临床和科学职业步骤感兴趣的医生的学术活动。在这里，我们申请继续使用CCSP的关键模块Accelerate。Accelerate专门针对1)完成了最初2-3年临床专科培训的临床医生，以及2)在科学和临床培训方面都有杰出才能的临床医生。重要的是，Accelerate成功地缩小了两个模块之间的差距：一是GetInvolved，目标是住院医生毕业后的头两年，让他们在开始临床专家培训的同时与科学保持联系；二是GoAhead，支持那些完成临床培训（委员会认证的临床专家）的人追求临床科学家的职业生涯，并建立自己的研究团队。加速作为CCSP的关键模块，旨在促进真正的双向转化方法，即从床边到实验室，反之亦然，通过促进临床感兴趣的基础科学家和具有强烈研究兴趣和背景的临床医生之间的交流。为了实现这些互动，Accelerate为参与者提供结构化的、平衡的科学和临床研究生培训，然后才有资格获得董事会认证（专家/顾问身份）。因此，Accelerate确保临床科学家可以继续他们的临床职业道路，同时在受保护的时间段内从事他们的研究项目，这些时间段是有约束力的课程的组成部分。在第一个资助期内，Accelerate招收了来自10个临床科室的22名优秀临床科学家。在所有研究员的日常工作中成功实施了保护研究时间（50%）。值得注意的是，在项目启动两年后，许多CCSP研究员已经在高排名期刊（最高if17）上发表了他们的部分研究成果。总之，Accelerate极大地推动了所有注册研究员的临床科学家职业生涯，实现了可靠的职业规划，允许将家庭生活与临床科学家职业结合起来，并促进了女性在临床科学领域的发展。加速项目的持续资助将进一步建立CCSP作为一个有吸引力的、可靠的、全面的职业计划，为具有科学兴趣和才能的高积极性的年轻临床医生提供服务，从而提高研究员在临床医学领域追求科学事业的动力和动力。

The mission of the Medical Faculty (MF) and the University Hospital Cologne (UHC) is to excel in clinical, translational, and basic medical research to improve patient care. Over the last decade, MF has systematically established the Cologne Clinician Scientist Track (CCSP) - a comprehensive clinician-scientist qualification concept to foster academic activities of physicians interested in both clinical and scientific career steps on an internationally visible level. Here, we apply for continuation of Accelerate, a key module of the CCSP. Accelerate specifically targets clinicians i) who have completed the initial 2-3 years of their clinical specialist training, and ii) have a proven outstanding talent in both science and clinical training. Importantly, Accelerate successfully closes the gap between the Modules i) GetInvolved, which targets residents in their first two years after graduation to keep them in touch with science while starting their clinical specialist training, and the Module ii) GoAhead, which supports those who have completed their clinical training (board certified clinical specialist) in pursuing a career as a clinician-scientist and in building their own research team.Accelerate as the key module of the CCSP is designed to promote a truly bidirectional translational approach, i.e., from bedside to bench and vice-versa, by fostering the exchange between clinically interested basic scientists and clinicians with a strong research interest and background. To enable these interactions, Accelerate offers its participants a structured, well-balanced scientific and clinical postgraduate training prior to qualifying for board certification (specialist/consultant status). Accelerate thus ensures that clinician-scientists can continue their clinical career path while pursuing their research projects during protected time periods that are an integrated part of a binding curriculum. Within the first funding period, Accelerate enrolled 22 outstanding clinician-scientists from 10 clinical departments. Protected time for research (50 %) was successfully implemented in the daily routine of all fellows. Remarkably, many CCSP fellows have already published parts of their research in high-ranked journals (up to IF 17) already two years after project kick-off. Taken together, Accelerate massively advanced the clinician-scientist career of all fellows enrolled, enabled reliable career planning, allowed to combine family life and a clinician-scientist career, and promoted women in clinical science. Funding the continuation of Accelerate will further establish the CCSP as an attractive, reliable, and comprehensive career program for highly motivated young clinicians with a proven scientific interest and talent, thereby boosting the fellows’ motivation and drive to pursue a scientific career in clinical medicine.