GERIATRIC ACADEMIC PROGRAM AWARD

我们提出了一项老年学术计划，其目标是帮助青少年 老年学或心理老年病学教职员工奖 最近毕业的研究员到独立的医学调查人员在 他们的老年学和相关领域来自几个主要机构 在加州大学洛杉矶分校财团(港湾加州大学洛杉矶分校医疗中心，弗吉尼亚州医疗中心西部 洛杉矶和塞普尔韦达，犹太人的老年之家，加州大学洛杉矶分校医疗 中心和兰德公司的健康科学计划)；(2)广袤 这些机构的研究和临床资源；及 指导获奖者的跨学科协作结构 研究计划。 我们提出了一项广泛的初级教员招聘计划，包括 少数族裔和妇女作为八个空缺职位的候选人和一个 选择获奖者的流程和标准集。我们有 选出了前三名获奖者，从1990年7月1日开始。他们都是 加州大学洛杉矶分校医学/老年病学助理教授。马克·H·比尔斯医学博士 是一位药物流行病学家；他的建议 是一项改善疗养院处方的干预措施。史蒂文·C。 位于洛杉矶西部退伍军人医疗中心的医学博士卡塞尔是一种传染性疾病 疾病专家；他将研究细胞免疫的体外测量 作为年龄的函数。S.Allison Mayer-Okers，M.D.，M.P.H.，总部设在加州大学洛杉矶分校 医学中心，是一名卫生服务研究员，他将学习一门专业 旨在改善老年人预防性医疗护理的干预措施。 授课课程-每个获奖者都必须完成作业，但主要获奖者除外 教育方法将是近距离亲身实践研究经验 由首席导师和其他导师组成的委员会进行监督。我们 是否定义了监控进度的标准和评估计划 包括主要导师和获奖者之间的项目前合同。 叙述描述了项目总监的资格，即 与老龄化相关的基础科学和临床研究的实力，方法 对于不同学科的研究人员之间的合作， 提供临床设施作为研究环境和我们过去的记录 以及目前的研究和研究培训计划。行政部门 差距的结构涉及加州大学洛杉矶分校老年科多校区 医学和老年学，GAP执行委员会和外部 咨询委员会。

We propose a Geriatric Academic Program whose objective is to assist junior faculty awardees in geriatics or psychogeriatrics in developing from recently graduated fellows to independent medical investigators during their gerontology and relevant fields drawn from several key institutions in the UCLA consortium (Harbor UCLA Medical Center, VA Medical Centers West Los Angeles and Sepulveda, the Jewish Homes for the Aging, UCLA Medical Center and the RAND Corporation's Health Sciences Program); (2) the vast research and clinical resources of these institutions; and (3) an interdisciplinary collaborative structure for mentoring the awardee's research program. We present a wide ranging plan for recruitment of junior faculty, including minorities and women as candidates for the eight slots available and a process and set of criteria for selection of the awardees. We have selected the first three awardees, to start on July 1, 1990. They are all Assistant Professors of Medicine/Geriatrics at UCLA. Mark H. Beers, M.D. based at the UCLA Medical Center is a pharmacoepidemiologist; his proposal is an intervention to improve prescribing in nursing homes. Steven C. Castle, M.D., based at VA Medical Center West Los Angeles, is an infectious disease expert; he will study in vitro measures of cell-mediated immunity as a function of age. S. Allison Mayer-Oakes, M.D., M.P.H., based at UCLA Medical Center, is a heath services researcher who will study a major intervention designed to improve preventive medical care of older persons. Didactic course-work will be required of each awarded but the predominant educational method will be hands-on research experience under close supervision by a principal mentor and a committee of other mentors. We have defined criteria for monitoring progress and an evaluation plan including a pre-program contract between principal mentor and awardee. The narrative describes the qualifications of the Program Director, the strength of basic-science and clinical research relevant to aging, methods for collaboration between researchers in a variety of disciplines, the clinical facilities available as a milieu for research and our past record and current programs in research and research training. The administrative structure for the GAP involves the UCLA Multicampus Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, a GAP Executive Committee and an external Advisory Committee.