Developmental Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology

描述(申请人提供)本建议的目的是培养对发育性癫痫感兴趣的儿科和成人神经科医生成为临床科学家。这是一个为期两年的培训计划，每年有一名第一年和一名第二年的神经科医生接受培训。这项提议是对目前资助的T32计划的竞争性延续申请。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，重点是正在发育中的大脑中的癫痫。此外，还将提供临床神经生理学和临床癫痫方面的高级培训，以进一步发展受训人员的技能，使其达到三级护理和大学癫痫中心的预期水平，并确保临床相关研究。每名受训者将在该教员的实验室与一名导师/导师密切合作，为期18个月；高级临床培训将在第二年的固定时间段进行，为期6个月(两个3个月的单元)。临床培训的重点将放在对学员的教育上，而不是服务上。此外，还将有授课作业、系列讲座、研讨会和杂志俱乐部。有5名基础科学研究人员和5名临床研究人员。每个人都有研究生培训、NIH资助和与其他项目教职员工进行科学合作的经验。临床教师在高级临床神经生理学和癫痫方面具有丰富的专业知识。目前的项目还很年轻，但已经培养出了一些毕业生，他们发表了自己的研究成果，并在全国会议上发表了这些成果。第一个毕业生已经加入了贝勒医学院的教职员工，第三个将在7月份加入教职员工(NIH KO8申请正在审查中)。在招募任职人数不足的种族和族裔群体的受训人员方面进行了集中和成功的努力：在最初的5名受训人员中，有3名来自任职人数不足的群体。

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.