Women's Reproductive Health Research at the Univ of WA

描述（由申请人提供）：华盛顿大学妇女生殖健康研究（WRHR）：妇产科住院医师是一项为期四年的高强度临床经验，有时还会有三年的亚专业奖学金。完成住院医师实习或获得奖学金的医生通常是优秀的临床医生，但通常没有做好充分准备，无法满足学术医学职业生涯的研究要求。该提案描述了一项计划，旨在继续为华盛顿大学的妇产科医生建立一个成功的妇女健康研究职业发展中心。该中心的主要目标仍然是致力于弥合临床和研究培训之间的差距，使年轻医生能够建立研究事业并最终成为独立的研究者。建议的主要培训形式是与成功的研究者（临床或基础）进行至少两年以上的指导经验。在这两年多的时间里，学者（实习生）将他/她的大部分时间投入到一个研究项目中，在这个项目中，他/她获得了独立并担任教职的知识和技能。这一提议的西华大学研究职业发展中心的延续有17位具有丰富研究经验和资金的导师，他们在与妇女健康直接相关的学科领域共同代表了强大的临床和基础科学专业知识。这是一个多学科的建议，因为导师的主要任命是在妇产科、儿科、医学、病理学、分子生物技术、遗传学、生理学和生物物理学、精神病学和行为科学等部门。每一位建议的导师都有卓越的研究记录和培训年轻研究人员的记录。妇产科院系将努力招募外部学者，而且它有一个相对较大的住院医师、研究员和初级教师队伍，他们渴望竞争三个拟议的学者奖。华盛顿大学的妇产科和医学院已经准备好投入大量的资源和资金来支持这个拟议中的研究中心。妇产科在科研培训方面积累了丰富的经验，在1998-2003年间成功培养了5位学者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) at the University of Washington: A medical residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology is an intense four-year clinical experience that is sometimes followed by a three-year subspecialty fellowship. Physicians that complete a residency and perhaps a fellowship are usually superb clinicians, but generally are not well prepared to meet the research requirements of a career in academic medicine. This proposal describes a plan for a continuation of a successful Research Career Development Center in women's health for Ob/Gyn physicians at the University of Washington. The major goal of this center remains a commitment to bridge the gap between clinical and research training to enable young physicians to establish research careers and eventually become independent investigators. The principal training format proposed is a mentored experience with a successful investigator (clinical or basic) for a minimum of two plus years. During these two (+) years, the scholar (trainee) devotes most of his/her time to a research project(s) whereby he/she acquires the knowledge and skills to become independent and assume a faculty position. This proposed continuation of the UW Research Career Development Center has seventeen mentors with extensive research experience and funding that collectively represent both strong clinical and basic science expertise in subject areas that directly relate to women's health. This is a multidisciplinary proposal in that the mentors have their primary appointments in the Departments of Ob/Gyn, Pediatrics, Medicine, Pathology, Molecular Biotechnology, Genetics, Physiology and Biophysics, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Each proposed mentor has a record of excellence in research and documented experience in training young investigators. The Department of Ob/Gyn will diligently recruit outside scholars, and it has a relatively large pool of residents, fellows, and junior faculty eager to compete for the three proposed Scholar awards. The Ob/Gyn Department and the School of Medicine at the University of Washington are prepared to make major commitments of resources and funding to support this proposed research center. The Ob/Gyn Department has acquired considerable experience in research training and has successfully trained five Scholars from 1998-2003.