Training of Academic Urologic Oncologists

描述(由申请人提供)：德克萨斯大学安德森癌症中心泌尿学奖学金在培养高素质的泌尿内科医生和科学家方面发挥了领导作用，他们一直是美国医疗保健的重要资源。这项为期三年的奖学金吸引了优秀的申请者，他们在培训期间获得了显着的奖项，然后获得了享有盛誉的学术职位，确保了在治疗泌尿系癌症患者方面继续取得进展。这项为期三年的培训计划将“长凳研究”和临床培训结合在一起，产生了翻译工作，最终将改善常规患者护理。我们的两个专注于前列腺癌和膀胱癌的孢子证明了安德森癌症中心生殖泌尿外科项目在翻译研究方面的卓越表现。 该项目的主要目标是培养优秀的临床医生、外科医生和科学家。完成这一计划的研究员将能够在主要教学机构建立或升级学术泌尿系统肿瘤学课程。为了完成这项任务，毕业生需要获得组织、领导和教学技能以及临床和研究方面的专业知识。这一T32培训项目的成功是基于我们为学员提供实验室和临床定义的泌尿生殖道癌生物学的实用知识的能力。这将使学员能够批判性地评估当前癌症预防、诊断和治疗的方法，并根据严格的实验室数据、转化性研究和临床观察制定改进的策略。 我们培训计划的一个重要但次要的目标是博士后实验室培训工作，包括内科医生和研究科学家。博士后研究员有机会在培训期间与临床医生密切合作。与优秀临床医生的这种联系将有助于将他们未来的研究整合到翻译工作中。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Urology Fellowship has played a leadership role in the development of highly qualified Urologic physician-scientists, who have been a significant resource to the medical care of the United States. This three-year fellowship has attracted outstanding applicants who have garnered notable awards during their training and then obtained prestigious academic positions ensuring continued advances in the care of patients with urologic cancers. The three-year training program integrates "bench research" and clinical training resulting in translational efforts that will ultimately result in improvements in routine patient care. Our two SPOREs focused on prostate and bladder cancer are evidence of the excellence in translational research in the Genitourinary Program of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The primary goal of this program is to train academic urologic oncologists, who are excellent clinicians, surgeons, and scientists. Fellows completing this program will be capable of establishing or upgrading academic Urologic Oncology programs in major teaching institutions. To accomplish this task, the graduating fellows will need to obtain organizational, leadership, and didactic skills along with clinical and research expertise. The success of this T32 training program is based upon our ability to provide the trainee with a working knowledge of the laboratory and clinically defined biology of genitourinary cancer. This understanding will enable the trainee to critically evaluate current methods of cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment and develop improved strategies based upon rigorous laboratory data, translational research, and clinical observations. An important but secondary goal of our training program is a post-doctoral laboratory training effort, which has included both physicians and research scientists. Post-doctoral fellows have the opportunity to work closely with clinicians during their training. This association with outstanding clinicians will help integrate their future research into translational efforts.