Medical Scientist Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：过去25年来，生物医学科学的快速发展导致迫切需要训练有素的研究人员，他们也直接参与临床医学，将生物医学科学的多项新发现转化为可行的临床应用。联合培训现代医学和基础生物医学科学的特殊知识观点和技术专门知识方面的最杰出的个人是满足这一需要的一个关键组成部分。 位于伯明翰的亚拉巴马大学的MSTP提供医学博士和博士学位的培训。学位与严格的学术课程和支持的气氛，以优秀的学生来自全国各地。在UAB医学中心进行的生物医学研究的广度和深度是该计划的主要优势，这是通过对培训计划的强有力的机构承诺，积极的招聘计划，第一年的创新灵活课程来加强的，重点是机械理解的深度，而不仅仅是大多数医学院课程中典型的广泛覆盖面，和一个有才华和勤奋的学生团体。 该计划的领导层在2001年重新充满活力，这导致了许多变化，包括来自全国各地的申请人数进一步增加，新的计划活动侧重于翻译研究，以及该计划中优秀学生群体的新感觉。本提案要求为14个职位供资，并在授标期间将职位总数增至20个。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The rapid advances in biomedical sciences of the past 25 years has resulted in a critical need for well trained investigators who also have direct involvement with clinical Medicine to translate the multiple new discoveries in biomedical science into workable clinical applications. Joint training of the most outstanding individuals in both modern medicine and the special intellectual perspective and technical know-how of basic biomedical science is a key component of meeting this need. The University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB MSTP provides training leading to both the MD and the Ph.D. degrees with a rigorous academic program and supportive atmosphere to outstanding students from across the country. The breadth and depth of the biomedical research being conducted at the UAB Medical Center is the primary strength of the program, which is enhanced by a strong institutional commitment to the training program, a vigorous recruiting program, an innovative flexible curriculum in the first year focused on depth of mechanistic understanding rather than merely broad coverage typical in most medical School curricula, and a talented and hard working student body. The leadership of the program was re-energized in 2001, which has resulted in many changes including further increases in the number of applicants from across the country, new programmatic activities focused on translational research, and a renewed sense of esprit among the outstanding group of students in the program. In this proposal, funding for 14 positions with an increase to a total of 20 positions over the course of the award period is requested.