Clinician-scientist training program in otolaryngology

 描述（由申请人提供）：耳鼻咽喉-头颈外科的基础科学、转化和临床研究正在取得显著进展，这些进展影响了我们治疗患者的方式。培育和扩大这种改善病人护理的一个关键组成部分是促进临床医生和基础科学家的伙伴关系。实现这一目标的方法之一是培养更多的临床科学家。在此，我们建议实施一项研究培训计划，旨在培养对内耳发育，再生，功能和生理学感兴趣的临床科学家。我们的研究培训计划旨在为住院医生和住院后毕业生提供密集的研究经验，结构化的教学计划，以及如何整合临床和研究活动的密切指导和指导。受训者将被灌输这样一种理念，即研究是学术外科医生职业生涯的内在要求，他们应该通过在研究和临床护理方面保持卓越来建立自己的职业生涯。如果我们的培训计划成功，我们的毕业生将成为独立的NIDCD资助的研究人员在学术部门的教师职位。当然，最终的长期目标是通过将科学发现转化为临床护理来推进我们的领域，从而改善人类健康。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Basic science, translational, and clinical research in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery is making remarkable advances that affect the way we treat patients. A critical component of nourishing and expanding such improvements in patient care is to facilitate the partnership of clinicians and basic scientists. One way to achiev this is by training more clinician-scientists. Herein, we propose to implement a research training program designed to cultivate clinician-scientists who are interested in studying inner ear development, regeneration, function, and physiology. Our research training program is designed to provide residents and post-residency graduates with intense research experiences, a structured didactic program, and close mentorship and guidance in how to integrate clinical and research activities. Trainees will be ingrained with the philosophy that research is intrinsic to a academic surgeon's career and that they should build their career by sustaining excellence in both research and clinical care. If our training program is successful, our graduates will become independent NIDCD-funded investigators in faculty positions in academic departments. The ultimate long-term goal, of course, is for them to improve human health by advancing our field via scientific discovery that is translated to clinical care.