Developmental Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology

描述（由申请人提供）本提案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2年的培训计划，每年培训一名第一年和一名第二年的神经科医生。该提案是目前资助的T32计划的竞争性延续申请。培训将在癫痫研究-无论是基础或临床研究-与癫痫在发育中的大脑的重点。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，以进一步发展受训者的技能，使其达到三级保健、大学癫痫中心所期望的水平，并确保临床相关研究。每位学员将与该教员实验室的导师/导师密切合作，为期18个月;高级临床培训将在第2年的固定时间段进行，为期6个月（两个3个月的块）。临床培训期间的重点将是对受训者的教育，而不是服务。此外，还将举办教学课程、系列讲座、研讨会和期刊俱乐部。有5个基础科学研究学院和5个临床研究学院。每个人都有研究生培训，NIH资助和与其他项目教师的科学合作的经验。临床教师经验丰富，专注于先进的临床神经生理学和癫痫的专业知识。目前的计划还很年轻，但已经产生了毕业生，他们已经发表了他们的研究成果，并在全国会议上提出。第一名毕业生已加入贝勒医学院，第三名将于7月加入该学院（NIH KO 8申请正在审查中）。在从代表性不足的种族和族裔群体中征聘受训人员方面，已经作出了有重点的成功努力：在头5名受训人员中，有3名来自代表性不足的群体。

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.