Training Program for Medical Scientists

描述（由申请人提供）：这是该申请的第一次竞争性更新，要求南卡罗来纳州医科大学每年为医学科学家培训计划提供8、10、12、12和12个职位。 由于该奖项而获得的资金将用于继续丰富该计划，加强我们的招聘工作并增加该计划的规模。 该机构，医学院和研究生院的财政和哲学承诺非常强大，并将继续下去。 该计划成立于1980年，并已稳步增长到目前的40名学生的规模。 与该计划的增长同时，研究企业也大幅增长，在过去5年中，校外支持增加了一倍。 该计划的目标是培养临床科学家，成为学术医学的领导者。 该计划的招聘计划包括向东南部各州、加州、伊利诺伊州和纽约等12个州的MCAT表现最佳者发送的个人信件;招聘CD、更新的网页、800号码、《科学》杂志上的广告、招生助理院长、积极招聘面试者和招聘少数族裔申请者。 实习生在开始医学院之前的夏天进入该项目，并参加研究轮换。 他们完成医学院的前两年，进入研究生院，进行并完成论文研究，然后返回医学院完成临床培训。 在医学院的第一年和第二年之间，他们还进行了研究轮换。 培训计划的主要内容包括：一个强大的培训教师与同行评审的校外资金，一个显着的培训记录，在癌症生物学，细胞信号，心血管生物学，神经科学，蛋白质组学，结构生物学和毒理学，每月一次的研究研讨会系列，一年两次的业务会议，每年一次的学生研究日，邀请外部访问者谁作为榜样，并赞助出席在国家研究会议上介绍他们的研究。 总之，该培训计划的学员已经证明，他们的科学成就获得了国家的认可，因为他们的研究获得了荣誉和奖项，他们的研究获得了NIH奖，并在备受尊敬的学术机构担任教师或培训职位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is the first competing renewal for this application requesting 8, 10, 12, 12, and 12 positions per year for a Medical Scientist Training Program by the Medical University of South Carolina. Funds made available as a result of this award will be used for the continued enrichment of the program, enhancement of our recruitment efforts and increase the size of the program. The fiscal and philosophical commitment by the institution, the Colleges of Medicine and Graduate Studies is very strong and will continue. The program was founded in 1980 and has steadily grown to its current size of 40 students. Simultaneous with the growth of the program has been a substantial growth of the research enterprise, with a doubling of extramural support over the last 5 years. The goal of this program is to train clinician-scientists, to become leaders in academic medicine. The program has a recruitment plan that incorporates a combination of personal letters to the highest performers on the MCAT in 12 states that include, Southeastern states, California, Illinois and New York; a recruitment CD, an updated web page, an 800 number, advertisements in Science, Assistant Dean for Admissions, aggressive recruitment of interviewees and recruitment of minority applicants. Trainees enter the program the summer before starting medical school and participate in a research rotation. They complete the first two years of medical school, enter into their graduate school years and conduct and complete their dissertation research and return to medical school to finish their clinical training. Between the first and second years of medical school they also conduct a research rotation. Key elements of the training program include; a strong training faculty with peer reviewed extramural funding, a significant training record with considerable expertise in cancer biology, cell signaling, cardiovascular biology, neuroscience, proteomics, structural biology and toxicology, a monthly research seminar series, biannual business meetings, an annual student research day, invited outside visitors who serve as role models, and sponsored attendance to present their research at national research meetings. In summary, this training program's trainees have demonstrated that they have gained national recognition for their scientific achievements as demonstrated by receiving honors and awards for their research, PIs on NIH awards for their research and assuming faculty or training positions at highly respected academic institutions.