Cross-disciplinary Training in Medical Physics

医学物理跨学科培训

• 批准号: 7233336
• 负责人: JAMES T DOBBINS
• 金额: $ 8.81万
• 依托单位: DUKE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-07-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7233336
• 关键词: Medical; Physics; Training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Medical Physics Graduate Program at Duke University is a rapidly growing, vibrant training program for students at the M.S. and PhD level. Its 42 faculty members come from the departments of radiology, radiation oncology, physics, biomedical engineering, and occupational and environmental safety (health physics), and include many internationally recognized experts. The program provides intensive classroom, research, and clinical training in all four of the main academic areas of medical physics: diagnostic imaging physics, radiation oncology physics, nuclear medicine physics, and medical health physics. It is one of the few training programs in the U.S. with a full training curriculum in each of these four areas. Because of its faculty expertise and strong curriculum in these four areas, it provides the opportunity for a unique interdisciplinary training experience for PhD students. Current cutting-edge work in medical physics requires scientists to have expertise in more than one area of study. This training program is unique in that it will provide each trainee specific and intensive training in at least two subdisciplines of medical physics. Specific elements of the training program include: (1) implementing a curriculum that provides core training plus individualized high-level training in both a major and minor academic track of study, (2) providing students with both a principal mentor and a co-mentor to best guide them in their cross-disciplinary training, (3) training students in the clinical elements of their major academic track, in order to provide a sound context for their research, (4) providing fellowship funding for the first three years of graduate study, to be followed by support from advisors, (5) providing opportunities for 3-6 month off-site learning experiences related to the particular topic of each student's research, (6) providing travel funds for students to attend a scientific meeting beginning in their first year, so that they will catch a vision for high-level medical physics research as early as possible, (7) recruiting and retaining students of the very highest caliber, paying particular attention to building a diverse student body, and (8) adequately training students in the ethics of research so that they can build sound careers. Relevance: This training program will produce scientists trained in more than one area of medical physics, who will thus be best able to advance interdisciplinary research in the field.

描述（由申请人提供）： 在杜克大学的医学物理研究生课程是一个快速增长，充满活力的培训计划的学生在MS。PhD水平。它的42名教师来自放射学，放射肿瘤学，物理学，生物医学工程，职业和环境安全（健康物理学）部门，包括许多国际公认的专家。该计划在医学物理学的所有四个主要学术领域提供密集的课堂，研究和临床培训：诊断成像物理学，放射肿瘤物理学，核医学物理学和医学健康物理学。它是美国为数不多的在这四个领域都有完整培训课程的培训项目之一。由于其在这四个领域的教师专业知识和强大的课程，它为博士生提供了独特的跨学科培训体验的机会。目前医学物理学的前沿工作要求科学家在多个研究领域拥有专业知识。该培训计划的独特之处在于，它将为每位学员提供至少两个医学物理学分支学科的具体和强化培训。培训方案的具体内容包括：（1）实施一个课程，提供核心培训，加上个性化的高层次培训，在两个主要和次要的学术研究轨道，（2）为学生提供一个主要的导师和共同导师，以最好地指导他们在他们的跨学科培训，（3）培训学生在其主要学术轨道的临床元素，为了给他们的研究提供一个良好的环境，（4）为研究生学习的前三年提供奖学金，随后由顾问提供支持，（5）为每个学生的研究的特定主题提供3-6个月的非现场学习经验的机会，（6）为学生提供旅行资金，让他们参加第一年开始的科学会议，以便他们尽早抓住高水平医学物理学研究的视野，（7）招募和留住最优秀的学生，特别注意建立一个多样化的学生群体，以及（8）充分培训学生的研究道德，使他们能够建立健全的职业生涯。相关性：该培训计划将培养出在多个医学物理领域接受过培训的科学家，从而能够最好地推进该领域的跨学科研究。