Training in Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases

描述(由申请者提供)：凯斯西储大学地理医学和传染病(AI-07024)培训计划自1976年以来一直资助，旨在严格培训传染病研究方面的医生、内科科学家和基础科学家，特别关注全球重要的疾病。我们建议每年培训四名博士后和两名博士后实习生。强调了传染病研究的跨学科方法，反映了CWRU校园中已经建立起来的部门间和国际合作。为了促进这一目标，鼓励学员的双重指导，以提供基础和临床研究培训的独特混合。为此，我们提供了39名教员培训人员，代表医学院和牙科学院的9个系。这些科学家中的大多数都以跨学科的方式进行了富有成效的合作，并成功地培训了研究和内科科学家。在地理医学部、结核病研究中心(TBRU)、艾滋病研究中心(CFAR)、艾滋病临床试验中心(ACTU)和抗微生物研究和流行病学中心(CARE)等具体计划的基础上，进一步组织了传染病研究和培训活动。他们中的大多数都保持着积极的海外研究项目，并支持CWRU对外国科学家的培训，从而促进了一个健康的国际研究合作环境。该项目已被证明是博士后职业发展的肥沃环境。在过去的十年中，该项目招募和支持了19名实习生(15名医学博士、3名博士和1名医学博士-博士)。在完成培训的14名受训人员中，有11人(78%)获得了教职任命，并且是活跃的研究人员。8个(57%)接受政府自己的研究经费。自上次续签以来，我们已成功地将两名博士和一名医学博士-博士研究生纳入该项目。为了满足CWRU在传染病研究方面对博士前实习生支持的记录需求，同时进一步扩大该项目的教育多样性，本申请寻求每年2个博士前职位的新资金。由于潜在的重叠问题，我们将把博士后实习生的数量从每年5人减少到4人。学员在培训计划的支持下，将100%的时间投入到研究性培训中。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The training program in Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases (AI-07024) at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), funded continuously since 1976, aims to rigorously train physicians, physician-scientists and basic scientists in infectious diseases research with a special focus on illnesses of global importance. We propose to train four postdoctoral and two predoctoral trainees per year. Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of infectious diseases are emphasized, reflecting well-established interdepartmental and international collaborations already present on the CWRU campus. To facilitate this goal, dual mentorship of trainees is encouraged to provide unique blends of basic and clinical research training. For this purpose, we provide 39 faculty trainers representing nine Departments in the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry. Most of these scientists have productively collaborated and successfully trained research and physician scientists in an interdisciplinary manner. Infectious diseases research and training activities are further organized within specific programs based around the Division of Geographic Medicine, the Tuberculosis Research Unit (TBRU), the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), the AIDS Clinical Trial Unit (ACTU) and the Center for Antimicrobial Research and Epidemiology (CARE). Most of these maintain active overseas research projects and support training at CWRU of foreign scientists, thus promoting a healthy collaborative environment for international research. This program has proven to be a fertile environment for postdoctoral career development. In the last ten years, this program has recruited and supported nineteen trainees (15 M.D., 3 Ph.D. and one M.D.-Ph.D.). Of the fourteen trainees that have completed training, eleven (78%) have faculty appointments and are active researchers. Eight (57%) receive their own governmental funding for research. Since the last renewal, we have successfully incorporated two Ph.D. and one M.D.-Ph.D. scientist trainee into the program. To meet a documented need for predoctoral trainee support in infectious diseases research at CWRU, while further broadening the educational diversity of this program, this application seeks new funding for 2 pre-doctoral positions per year. Due to potential overlap concerns, we will decrease numbers of post-doctoral trainees from 5 to 4 per year. Trainees, while supported by the training program, will devote 100% of their time to research training.