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多名有兴趣成为皮肤科医生的年轻医生。这些人中的大多数代表了他们医学院班级的精英。经过三年的住院医师培训，他们中的大多数人离开大学，开始一个成功的私人执业。 为什么这些年轻的皮肤科医生远离学术和皮肤病学研究？ 无论如何，皮肤病学研究的学术生涯必须对这些年轻人更具吸引力。他们希望集中力量检验一个假设：年轻受训者尽早接触国家研究领军人物和成功的年轻医生-科学家，以及传播有关研究职业的信息，可能对他们的职业决定产生积极影响。 本次会议的长期目标是增加皮肤科的医生-科学家人才库。为了实现这一目标，他们将采取以下步骤： 1.选择一小群对生物医学研究感兴趣的第一年皮肤科住院医师。2.为这个小组提供有关皮肤病学生物医学研究职业的信息，包括博士后研究地点的目录。3.在非正式的气氛中，向年轻的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者和成功的年轻医生科学家以及患者倡导领导者。4.促进未来皮肤科医生科学家的职业决策过程。5.为将来的结果研究准备一个包含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.