Developmental Adaptation

描述（由申请人提供）：目前的提案寻求在耶鲁大学医学院儿科系的儿童健康研究职业发展奖的续期。由NICHD奖资助的耶鲁儿童健康研究职业发展计划（YCHRCDP）的目标仍然是通过为学术和调查儿科学的独立研究职业准备医生科学家来促进儿童健康研究。 YCHRCDP最初于1990年作为P30奖获得资助，在过去的15年中，YCHRCDP促进了38名研究器官发育和儿童疾病基本过程的医生科学家的职业发展。百分之四十（40%）的获奖者一直是美国国立卫生研究院R级或U级资助的主要研究者。百分之三十九（39%）的获奖者是女性，这些女医生-科学家的独立NIH资助和学术晋升的速度和时间与男性同行相当。30多名耶鲁大学教师担任YCHRCDP获奖者的导师，70%的被任命者在儿科以外的部门接受过培训，包括遗传学，免疫生物学;内科学，病理学和生理学。 在过去的15年里，我们的计划内部日趋成熟，我们目前的目标是在五个方面扩大YCHRCDP的影响：（1）通过在部门内外纳入新的指导计划，扩大我们的职业发展课程的范围;（2）继续强调女医生-科学家的榜样作用（50%的内部顾问委员会成员和21%的建议导师），并将这一模式扩展到少数族裔（12%的获奖者）;（3）通过整合儿科系、医学院和NICHD的财政资源，扩大对医生科学家职业生涯早期的支持;（4）通过继续加强我们与其他部门的儿童健康相关研究计划的联盟，提高YCHRCDP的有效性;（5）与跨部门职业发展计划建立新的联系（罗伯特·伍德约翰逊临床学者项目和调查医学项目），从而扩大了我们学者的职业发展机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The current proposal seeks renewal of the Child Health Research Career Development Award in the Department of Pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine. The goal of the Yale Child Health Research Career Development Program (YCHRCDP) funded by the NICHD award continues to be the advancement of research in child health by preparing physician-scientists for independent research careers in academic and investigative pediatrics. Initially funded as a P30 award in 1990, over the past 15 years the YCHRCDP has fostered the career development of 38 physician-scientists studying fundamental processes of organ development and childhood disease. Forty percent (40%) of the awardees have been principal investigators on R- or U-level funding from the NIH. Thirty-nine percent (39%) of the awardees have been women, and the rate and timing of independent NIH funding and academic promotion for these female physician-scientists are equivalent to their male counterparts. More than 30 Yale faculty have served as mentors for YCHRCDP awardees, and 70% of our appointees have trained in departments other than pediatrics, including Genetics, Immunobiology; Internal Medicine, Pathology, and Physiology. In keeping with the internal maturation of our program over the past 15 years, our current goal is to expand the impact of the YCHRCDP in five areas: (1) to enlarge the scope of our career development curriculum by incorporating new mentoring initiatives both within the Department and beyond our walls; (2) to continue to emphasize role models for female physician-scientists (50% of our Internal Advisory Board and 21% of proposed mentors) and to extend this paradigm to minorities (12% of awardees); (3) to expand support for the early years of physician-scientists' careers by integrating financial resources from the Department of Pediatrics, the School of Medicine, and NICHD; (4) to enhance the effectiveness of the YCHRCDP by continuing to strengthen our alliances with research programs of relevance to child health that are sited in other departments; and (5) to forge new linkages with supra-departmental career development programs (Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and Investigative Medicine Program) at the Yale School of Medicine, thereby enlarging the scope of career development opportunities for our scholars.