D.D.S./PH.D COMBINED TRAINING PROGRAM

该提案的目标是提供一个综合的、多学科的 牙科和研究生研究培训计划，导致实现 这两个D.D.S.和博士度，共6人。 这些人将被培训为牙科科学家， 口腔健康和疾病的临床研究，基础知识， 基础细胞和分子生物学。一个综合的D.D.S./博士 该计划已正式在牙科医学院提供 三十年来，我们现在有两个学生注册在一个合并 程序.这所大学的研究生院已经建立了一个 私人捐赠的奖学金计划，以支持学生谁注册 在学校的研究生院/专业学校联合项目中 牙科医学。它为三个人提供助学金和学费 可用于增加五到六年的支持， 提出的方案。我们的大学课程的可用性和作为 以及该机构的研究资源一直是宝贵的 对目前在D.D.S/Ph.D.的学生的激励措施程序.如果 额外的资金可用于一个综合计划， 这个建议，会有更多的学生感兴趣。 学生在这个程序必须满足所有的单独要求， D.D.S.学位和博士学位他们被录取的计划。 最典型的是，这个博士。该计划将在口腔生物学，虽然 学生可以参加其他博士学位。在学校的节目 生物医学科学，自然科学或罗斯威尔公园纪念馆 院该计划的目的是，教学课程，为双方 的博士和D.D.S.都是在头两年沿着研究 可以指导学生撰写适当论文的轮换 区 的博士第二年年底举行初步考试 之后，学生们专注于临床前和临床 D.D.S.的各个方面。在剩下的四年里， D.D.S.已完成的课程用于博士学位。research.在 D.D.S.之后的第七和第八年。 要求完成，学生的研究工作 论文工作。

The goal of this proposal is to provide an integrated, multidisciplinary dental and graduate research training program leading to the attainment of the both the D.D.S. and Ph.D. degrees for a total of six individuals. These individuals will be trained as dental scientists who can bring into clinical studies of oral health and disease, fundamental knowledge from basic cellular and molecular biological sciences. A combined D.D.S./Ph.D. Program has officially been available at the School of Dental Medicine for thirty years and we now have two students enrolled in a combined Program. The Graduate School of this University has instituted a privately endowed fellowship program to support students who are enrolled in a combined graduate school/professional school program at the School of Dental Medicine. It provides a stipend and tuition costs for three years and can be used to augment the five to six years of support from the proposed Program. The availability of our University Program and as well as the research resources of the Institution have been valuable incentives for the present students in the D.D.S/Ph.D. program. If additional funds were available for a combined Program as outlined in this proposal, there would be a larger pool of students interested. Students in this Program must meet all the separate requirements of both the D.D.S. degree and the Ph.D. Program in which they are matriculated. Most typically, this Ph.D. Program will be in Oral Biology, although students may be enrolled in other Ph.D. programs in the School of Biomedical Sciences, the Natural Sciences or in Roswell Park Memorial Institute. The Program is designed such that didactic courses for both the Ph.D. and D.D.S. are taken in the first two years along with research rotations that can direct the student to an appropriate dissertation area. The Ph.D. preliminary exam is taken at the end of the second year after which the students concentrate on the preclinical and clinic aspects of the D.D.S. for the remaining four years with time freed by D.D.S. course work already completed used for Ph.D. research. In the seventh and eighth year of the combined Program after the D.D.S. requirements are completed, the student works on the research dissertation work.