Dermatology Scientist Training Program

项目总结/摘要 加州大学洛杉矶分校大卫格芬医学院提出的T32皮肤科科学家培训计划是 旨在培养优秀的博士预科生（仅医学科学家培训计划[MSTP]候选人）， 博士后培训生（MD，PhD和MD/PhD）在皮肤科的学术研究生涯中， 全国范围内的医生和科学家数量下降。在最初的5年期间，有2名博士生和2名 博士后学员每年，每个为2-或，如果有指示，3年的任命与保护的研究时间， 这一新的培训计划将满足不同研究领域对研究培训的迫切需要 与皮肤生物学有关，包括免疫学、新陈代谢和计算生物学， 在加州大学洛杉矶分校的合作基础和转化研究。为了满足这一需求，跨学科 新计划的课程和指导研究机会交织在一起的科学专业知识， 33名高素质的多学科教师的指导经验，他们致力于合作，团队， 基于科学。新的职业发展计划将利用加州大学洛杉矶分校MSTP的资源， 专业培训和高级研究（星星）计划和转化科学培训计划 为核心课程。UCLA皮肤病学T32计划的目标是：i）扩展多学科 皮肤病学知识基础，因为它涉及皮肤病的不同方面; ii）提供教学和 皮肤病学调查的知识和哲学基础的实践研究培训 在更广泛的临床转化研究企业; iii）培养学员的科学写作技能， 出版物和赠款; iv）提供一个学术环境，使研究技能的发展 和经验所需的成功，独立的科学事业，在学术医学;和，v）模型 研究授权的教学和指导技能，以促进受训者的发展，包括他们的最终 将皮肤生物学的研究教育、培训和职业发展计划作为他们的职业 进化成稳定的科学独立总的来说，拟议的T32开辟了一个独特的利基，不仅在 加州大学洛杉矶分校的健康科学培训/职业发展企业作为一个综合计划，重点是 基础科学家和医生科学家在调查皮肤病学，但也在NIAMS支持的T32 通过创新性地利用大学范围内的星星计划， 计划，发展医生科学家的职业生涯，结合临床和研究培训。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The proposed T32 Dermatology Scientist Training Program at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is designed to prepare outstanding predoctoral (Medical Scientist Training Program [MSTP] candidates only) and postdoctoral trainees (MD, PhD, and MD/PhD) for academic research careers in Dermatology at a time of declining numbers of physician-scientists nationwide. During the initial 5-year period, with 2 predoctoral and 2 postdoctoral trainees per year, each for a 2- or, if indicated, 3-year appointment with protected research time, this new training program will fill a critical need for research training in a diverse range of research areas pertaining to skin biology, including immunology, metabolism, and computational biology, enhancing collaborative basic and translational research at UCLA. In response to this need, the interdisciplinary curriculum and mentored research opportunities of the new program interweave the scientific expertise and mentoring experience of 33 high-quality multidisciplinary faculty who are committed to collaborative, team- based science. The new career development program will leverage the resources of the UCLA MSTP, Specialty Training and Advanced Research (STAR) Program, and Training Program in Translational Science for the core curriculum. The aims of the UCLA Dermatology T32 program are to: i) expand the multidisciplinary knowledge base of dermatology as it relates to different aspects of skin diseases; ii) provide didactic and hands-on research training in the intellectual and philosophical foundation of dermatological investigation within the broader clinical-translational research enterprise; iii) develop trainees' scientific writing skills for publications and grants; iv) provide an academic environment that enables development of the research skills and experience needed for successful, independent scientific careers in academic medicine; and, v) model research-empowering teaching and mentoring skills for trainees' development, including their eventual replication of research education, training, and career development programs in skin biology as their careers evolve into stable, scientific independence. Overall, the proposed T32 carves out a unique niche not only within the health sciences training/career development enterprise at UCLA as an integrated program focused on both basic scientists and physician scientists in investigative dermatology but also among NIAMS-supported T32 programs in dermatology nationwide through its innovative leveraging of a university-wide program, the STAR Program, to develop the careers of physician scientists, combining clinical and research training.