Medical Genetics Research Training Grant

描述(申请人提供)：本次研究培训计划的主要目标是培养未来的医学遗传学领导者，他们将从各种培训途径中脱颖而出。许多人将拥有医学博士学位；其他人将是在儿科、医学、精神病学、病理学和其他专业领域接受临床培训的医学博士/博士，他们将有资格获得这笔培训补助金的支持。儿科-遗传学联合住院医师在第四年和第五年住院期间也将有资格。针对这些人的整个培训计划包括一个临床年度，在此期间，该研究员有大量的临床负担，并完成了她/他的人类遗传学和分子生物学教学课程的一部分。第一年由宾夕法尼亚大学医学院和费城儿童医院(CHOP)提供资金，而整个培训计划的研究年份的资金则从这笔培训补助金中寻求。在第二年，这位医学博士完成了授课工作，并开始了研究培训。在第二年和第三年的大部分时间里，通常是第四年，这位研究员基本上100%地致力于在基础科学实验室进行研究。研究机会极其多样化，在宾夕法尼亚大学14个系的39名教员的实验室接受培训。在研究期间，学员还参加研讨会课程、参加期刊俱乐部、研究会议和科室研究务虚会，并开展最低限度的临床活动，不超过5%的努力。申请书中要求提供这两到三年的培训津贴。医学博士实习生可能需要进一步的研究培训(不在本培训拨款的范围内)，这可能是另一次博士后研究经验，或者是受保护的教职任命，由资深教员提供大量指导。这笔赠款将为医学博士研究员在医学遗传学方面的研究提供最多三年的资金，为医学博士/博士研究员提供两年的研究资金。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The major goal of this research training program is to train the future leaders of medical genetics who will emerge from a variety of training pathways. Many will have M.D. degrees; other will be M.D./Ph.D.s with clinical training in Pediatrics, Medicine, Psychiatry, Pathology and other specialty areas who will be eligible for support from this training grant. Combined Pediatrics-Genetics residents will also be eligible during their 4th and 5th years of residency. The overall training program for these individuals consists of one clinical year during which the fellow has a substantial clinical load and fulfills a portion of her/his didactic course work in human genetics and molecular biology. This first year is funded by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), while funds for the research years of the overall training program are sought from this training grant. During the second year, the M.D. fellow completes didactic course work and begins research training. During most of the second year and all of the third year and often the fourth years, the fellow devotes essentially 100% effort to research in a basic science laboratory. Research opportunities are extremely diverse with training in the laboratories of 39 faculty from 14 departments at Penn. During the research years, the trainee also takes seminar courses, attends journal clubs, research meetings, and departmental research retreats, and carries out minimal clinical activities, not to exceed 5% effort. Training stipends for these two to three years are requested in the application. The M.D. trainee will likely require further research training (not covered by this training grant), which might be another postdoctoral research experience or a protected faculty appointment with considerable mentoring from a senior faculty member. This grant will fund up to three research years of the M.D. investigator in medical genetics, and two years for M.D./Ph.D. fellows.