Training Veterinary Students for Careers in Biomedical Research

兽医科学家大大加强了基础科学和临床医学之间的转化桥梁。 他们的双重训练赋予了他们独特的专业知识，增强了研究的严谨性和可重复性 用动物模型和改善动物福利。为了在研究生涯中取得成功，兽医必须建立在 通过博士研究生教育获得的比较医学基础 提供严格的生物医学研究培训的项目或博士后奖学金。这是一条 理想情况下，开始时仍然是一个兽医学生，与学生参加指导的研究项目， 与兽医研究人员榜样建立联系。这项建议旨在扩大现有的夏季培训 约翰霍普金斯大学（JHU）为兽医学生提供生物医学研究的计划机会 医学院作为一种手段，招募更多的兽医研究事业。T35学者 该计划将点燃参与学生对生物医学研究的热情， 在我们的顶级学术医疗中心指导暑期研究项目。分子和生物学系 比较病理生物学（DMCP），在医学JHU学校的基础科学部门，作为 JHU DVM教师学术之家，将提供一个充满兽医的支持性家庭基地- 从我们的T32资助的培训计划中的博士后研究员到终身教授， R 01资助的独立研究实验室。DMCP还将举办职业发展活动计划 教育兽医学生有关兽医研究的职业。我们要求资金 对于前两年每年4个暑期兽医学生实习生名额的拟议12周计划， 最后三年扩展到每年6个插槽。拟议的T35学者计划将补充和 融入我们现有的暑期课程，这些课程在为兽医学生做好准备方面取得了90%以上的成功， 研究密集型职业。通过在JHU DMCP建立T35学者计划，我们希望 为兽医学生提供一个绝佳的机会，让他们了解并为未来做好准备。 兽医科学家以及生物医学研究的领导者。

Veterinarian scientists greatly strengthen the translational bridge between basic science and clinical medicine. Their dual training endows them with unique expertise that enhances the rigor and reproducibility of research with animal models and improves animal welfare. To succeed in a research career, veterinarians must build on the foundation in comparative medicine gained through their veterinary education by engaging in PhD programs or postdoctoral fellowships that provide rigorous training in biomedical research. This is a path that ideally begins while still a veterinary student, with the student participating in mentored research projects and networking with veterinarian-researcher role models. This proposal seeks to expand existing summer training program opportunities for veterinary students in biomedical research at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Medicine as a means to recruit more veterinarians to research careers. The proposed T35 Scholars Program will ignite a passion for biomedical research in participating students thorough immersion in a mentored summer research project at our top tier academic medical center. The Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology (DMCP), a basic sciences department in the JHU School of Medicine that serves as the academic home for DVM faculty at JHU, will provide a supportive home base replete with veterinarian- scientist role models from postdoctoral fellows in our T32-funded training program to tenured professors with R01-funded independent research labs. DMCP will additionally host a program of career development activities educating the veterinary students about the careers available to veterinarians in research. We request funding for the proposed 12 week program for 4 summer veterinary student trainee slots / year for the first two years, to expand to 6 slots / year for the final three years. The proposed T35 Scholars Program will complement and integrate into our existing summer programs that have >90% success in preparing veterinary students for research-intensive careers. Through the establishment of a T35 Scholar Program at JHU DMCP, we hope to offer an outstanding opportunity for veterinary students to learn about and prepare themselves to be future veterinarian-scientists as well as leaders in biomedical research.