Annual Dermatology Resident Retreat

描述(由申请人提供)： 在全国范围内，皮肤科每年招收300多名对成为皮肤科医生感兴趣的年轻医生。这些人中的大多数代表了他们医学院班上的精英。经过三年的住院医师培训，他们中的大多数人离开了大学，开始了一项成功的私人执业。为什么这些年轻的皮肤科医生远离学术和皮肤科研究？无论如何，皮肤病研究的学术生涯必须对这些年轻人更具吸引力。他们希望集中精力检验一个假设：年轻受训者及早接触到全国领先的研究人物和成功的年轻内科科学家，以及传播有关研究职业的信息，可能会对他们的职业决策产生积极影响。 这次会议的长期目标是增加皮肤科内科科学家的人数。为了实现这一目标，他们将遵循以下步骤： 1.挑选一小群对生物医学研究感兴趣的皮肤科一年级住院医生。2.向该小组提供皮肤科生物医学研究职业的信息，包括博士后研究网站目录。3.在非正式的气氛中，向年轻居民介绍皮肤病研究学会、美国国立卫生研究院、皮肤病基金会的领导人和成功的年轻内科科学家，以及患者倡导领袖。4.促进未来皮肤科医生-科学家的职业决策过程。5.为今后的成果研究准备一个含有选定居民姓名的数据库。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Nationwide, dermatology departments enroll annually over 300 young physicians interested in becoming dermatologists. The majority of these individuals represent the cream of their medical school class. After three years of residency training, most of them leave the university to begin a successful private practice. Why do these young dermatologists walk away from academics and dermatological research? Somehow, academic careers in dermatological research must be made more attractive to these young individuals. They wish to focus their efforts in testing one hypothesis: that early exposure of young trainees to leading national research figures and successful young physician-scientists and diffusion of information about research careers may have a positive influence in their career decisions. The long-term objective of this meeting is to increase the pool of physician-scientists in dermatology. To meet this goal they will follow these steps: 1. Select a small group of first-year dermatology residents interested in biomedical research. 2. Provide this group with information on biomedical research careers in dermatology, including a directory of postdoctoral research sites. 3. Introduce young residents to leaders and successful young physician-scientists of the Society for Investigative Dermatology, the National Institutes of Health, the Dermatology Foundation and to patient advocacy leaders in an informal atmosphere. 4. Facilitate the career-decision-process for future dermatology physician-scientists. 5. Prepare a database with names of the selected resident for future outcome studies.