Developmental Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology

描述（由申请人提供）本提案的目的是培训对发展性癫痫感兴趣的儿科和成人神经科医生成为临床医生-科学家。这是一个为期两年的培训项目，每年有一名一年级和一年级的神经科医生接受培训。该提案是当前资助的T32项目的竞争性延续申请。培训将在癫痫研究方面进行——无论是基础研究还是临床研究——重点是发育中的大脑中的癫痫。此外，还将在临床神经生理学和临床癫痫方面进行高级培训，以进一步发展学员的技能，达到三级医疗机构、大学癫痫中心的水平，并确保临床相关研究。每位受训者将在该教员的实验室与导师/导师密切合作18个月；高级临床培训将在二年级固定时间进行，为期6个月（两个3个月的模块）。临床培训的重点是对受训者的教育，而不是服务。此外，还会有教学课程、系列讲座、研讨会和期刊俱乐部。现有基础科学研究院系5个，临床研究院系5个。每个人都有研究生培训，NIH资助和与其他项目教师科学合作的经验。临床教师在高级临床神经生理学和癫痫方面拥有丰富的专业知识。目前的项目还很年轻，但已经培养出了发表研究成果并在全国会议上发表的毕业生。第一名毕业生已加入贝勒医学院，第三名毕业生将于7月加入该学院（NIH KO8申请正在审查中）。在征聘人数不足的种族和族裔群体的受训人员方面，已经作出了集中和成功的努力：在最初的5名受训人员中，有3名来自人数不足的群体。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The purpose of this proposal is to train pediatric and adult neurologists with an interest in developmental epilepsy to become clinician-scientists. This is a 2-year training program with one first-year and one-second year neurologist trained each year. This proposal is a competing continuation application of a currently funded T32 program. Training will be in epilepsy research - either basic or clinical research - with an emphasis upon epilepsy in the developing brain. In addition, there will be advanced training in clinical neurophysiology and clinical epilepsy in order to further develop the trainees' skills to the level expected by tertiary care, university-based epilepsy centers and to insure clinically relevant research. Each trainee will work closely with a mentor/preceptor in that faculty member's laboratory for an 18-month period; advanced clinical training will be conducted in fixed time periods in Year 2 for a period of 6 months (two 3-month blocks). The emphasis during the clinical training will be on education of the trainee, not service. In addition, there will be didactic course work, a lecture series, seminars and journal clubs. There are 5 basic science research faculty and 5 clinical research faculty. Each has experience in post-graduate training, NIH funding and scientific collaboration with other program faculty. The clinical faculty is experienced with focused expertise in advanced clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy. The current program is still young, but has produced graduates that have published their research findings and presented them at national meetings. The first graduate has joined the Baylor College of Medicine faculty and the third will join the faculty in July (NIH KO8 application in review). There have been focused and successful efforts in the recruitment of trainees from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups: of the first 5 trainees, 3 are from underrepresented groups.