UTAH WRHR CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER

缺乏高素质的内科调查人员，特别是在学术产科和妇科领域，仍然是一个主要的全国性问题。犹他州妇女生殖健康研究(WRHR)职业发展中心由犹他州大学健康科学中心(UUHSC)产科和妇科系提出，构成了一项严格的职业发展计划，由最高素质的医生和研究人员组成。利用产科和妇科与UHSC学术社区的既定联系，犹他州WRHR职业发展中心建议将WRHR学者与17名优秀的部门内外导师进行匹配。此外，犹他州人力资源职业发展中心建议与人类分子生物学和遗传学(HMBG)计划顺序链接并借鉴其经验，HMBG计划是一个独特的、创新的、无导师的UHSC职业发展计划。后者在培养医生调查员方面的成功是有目共睹的。将向WRHR学者提供四个研究轨道，包括：(1)人类发展(2)生殖内分泌学(3)生殖癌症和(4)围产期医学。考虑到候选WRHR学者先前研究经验的异质性，我们提出了两个阶段的研究，从而确保了分级进展。为期两年的基础阶段是为没有先前研究经验的WRHR学者设计的，将需要一系列核心研究生课程，并将向WRHR学者介绍应用于基本翻译和/或临床技术的现代研究工具。高级阶段是为有研究经验的WRHR学者设计的，将要求选修研究生课程，同时进行与妇女生殖健康相关的日益独立的研究。临床义务将是最低限度的。已经分配了超过50万美元的机构支助。WRHR奖学金获得者将可以随时获得广泛的核心设施(包括DNA芯片微阵列技术)。随着该项目的完成，预计每一位WRHR学者都将做好充分准备，以竞争适当的外部资金。此外，每名WRHR奖学金获得者将有机会申请以UHSC为基础的无导师HMBG计划，从而促进其下一阶段的发展(即通过独立成熟)。在医学博士Eli Y.Adashi和医学博士D.Ware Branch医学中心主任Eli Y.Adashi领导下，犹他州WRHR职业发展中心将为在一个快速发展的学术研究机构培养领先的学术产科/妇科医生提供杰出的智力环境。

The lack of highly-qualified physician-investigators, particularly in the realm of academic obstetrics and gynecology, remains a major national concern. The Utah Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Career Development Center, as proposed by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center (UUHSC), constitutes a rigorous career development program of physician-investigators of the highest caliber. Capitalizing on the established links of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology with the academic UUHSC community, the Utah WRHR Career Development Center proposes to match WRHR Scholars with seventeen outstanding intra and extra departmental mentors. Moreover, the Utah WRHR Career Development Center proposes to sequentially link with and draw on the experience of, the Human Molecular Biology and Genetics (HMBG) Program, a unique and innovative non-mentored UUHSC-based career development program. The success of the latter in fostering physician-investigators is well-established. Four tracks of study will be made available to WRHR Scholars to include: (1) Human Development (2) Reproductive Endocrinology (3) Reproductive Cancer and (4) Perinatal Medicine. In recognition of the heterogeneity of prior research experience of candidate WRHR scholars, we propose two phases of study thereby ensuring graded progress. The two year Basic Phase, designed for WRHR scholars without prior research experience, will require a series of core graduate level courses and will introduce the WRHR Scholar to contemporary investigative tools as they apply to basic translational and/or clinical technology. The Advanced Phase, designed for WRHR scholars with prior research experience, will require elective graduate courses while pursuing increasingly independent research of relevance to women's reproductive health. Clinical obligations will be minimal. Institutional support exceeding 500,000 dollars has been allocated. WRHR Scholars will enjoy ready access to a broad range of core facilities (including DNA chip microarray technology). With the completion of the program, it is anticipated that each WRHR Scholar will be well-prepared to compete for appropriate extramural funding. Moreover, each WRHR Scholar will be offered the opportunity to apply for the unmentored UUHSC-based HMBG Program thereby facilitating the next phase of his/her development (i.e. maturation through independence). Led by two academically-committed obstetrician/gynecologists, Eli Y. Adashi, M.D., PI and D. Ware Branch, M.D., Center Director, the Utah WRHR Career Development Center will offer an outstanding intellectual environment for the development of leading academic obstetrician-gynecologists in a rapidly-growing academic research institution.