TRAINING IN VETERINARY AND COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY

兽医和比较病理学的研究培训计划旨在为兽医在生物医学研究中的职业生涯做好准备，重点是实验病理学。所有学员均为博士后水平，并被任命为哈佛医学院病理学系的研究员。该计划的目标是为合格的兽医提供必要的培训和经验，使他们能够成功地竞争研究资金，并为他们在生物医学研究的职业生涯做好准备。该培训补助金由哈佛医学院（HMS）病理学系、新英格兰地区灵长类动物研究中心（HMS的附属机构）、马萨诸塞州波士顿的安吉尔纪念动物医院和康涅狄格大学病理生物学系联合提供。在此培训补助金支持下进行的研究项目可用于满足康涅狄格大学病理学博士学位的要求。培训将包括病理学基本原理的指导和广泛接触现代诊断和实验病理学中使用的最先进的调查工具，包括免疫组织化学，透射和免疫电子显微镜，共聚焦显微镜，原位杂交，流式细胞术，PCR，细胞因子生物学和分子生物学。受训人员应熟练掌握在其个人研究项目中使用的实验技术。使用的培训方法将包括但不限于参加哈佛医学院和康涅狄格大学提供的正式课程，参加在新英格兰区域灵长类动物研究中心举行的研究会议和研讨会，监督工作经验，参加至少一次国家和多个区域病理学会议，在既定调查员的监督下完成研究项目，并提交一份或多份手稿，描述出版的工作。受训者还将接受NIH拨款申请准备方面的指导，并将了解同行评审过程的细节。完成该课程后，学员也有资格参加美国兽医病理学家学院的集中考试。

The Research Training program in Veterinary and Comparative Pathology is designed to prepare veterinarians for careers in biomedical research with an emphasis on experimental pathology. All trainees are at the postdoctoral level and are appointed as Research Fellows in the Department of Pathology of Harvard Medical School. The objective of the program is to provide qualified veterinarians with the requisite training and experience to enable them to successfully compete for research funding and prepare them for careers in biomedical research. This training grant is a joint venture between the Department of Pathology of Harvard Medical School (HMS), the New England Regional Primate Research Center (an affiliated institution of HMS), Angell Memorial Animal Hospital in Boston, MA and the Department of Pathobiology at the University of Connecticut. Research projects performed while supported by this training grant can be used towards fulfilling the requirements of a PhD in Pathobiology at the University of Connecticut. Training will include instruction in the fundamental principles of pathology and broad exposure to state-of-the-art investigative tools utilized in modern day diagnostic and experimental pathology including immunohistochemistry, transmission and immunoelectron microscopy, confocal microscopy, in situ hybridization, flow cytometry, PCR, cytokine biology and molecular biology. Trainees are expected to become proficient in those experimental techniques employed in their individual research projects. Training methods used will include but not be limited to attendance of formal courses offered at Harvard Medical School and the University of Connecticut, participation in research conferences and seminars held at the New England Regional Primate Research Center, supervised work experience, attendance of at least one national and multiple regional pathology meetings, completion of a research project under the supervision of an established investigator and submission of one or more manuscripts, describing the work for publication. Trainees also receive instruction in preparation of NIH grant applications and will become knowledgeable regarding details of the peer review process. Upon completion of this program, trainees also become qualified to take the centrifying examination of the American College of Veterinary pathologists.