YNPRC Nonhuman Primate Clinical Medicine Residency Program

描述(由申请人提供)：埃默里大学耶克斯国家灵长类动物研究中心(YNPRC)建议为兽医提供经济上有吸引力的、高度专业化的非人类灵长类(NHP)兽医培训机会、资源管理和研究支持。我们的目标是吸引和留住一些最优秀和最聪明的兽医，在这一重要且认购不足的学科中进行强化培训，从而帮助改善目前全国生物医学设施中灵长类兽医的短缺状况。我们的计划将利用YNPRC/Emory环境提供的许多学习机会，包括：技术和临床专业知识(兽医、增菌、群体和设施管理、病理学等)；中心在两个不同设施的各种住房和社会群体情况下维护的3000+/7种NHP；广泛的生物医学研究，在特别强大的转换研究计划中利用NHP；最先进的研究和诊断支持设施；与埃默里医学院的紧密联系，以及与附近其他生物医学机构的密切合作，包括美国疾病控制和预防中心(CDC)、V.A.医学中心和附近的大学(佐治亚、佐治亚理工学院、莫尔豪斯)。 拟议的YNPRC灵长类临床教育计划将补充已经很优秀的 Emory/YNPRC为期两年的ACLAM认证实验动物住院计划非常成功，专注于培养全面发展、训练有素的实验动物兽医。新的YNPRC计划旨在吸引更多的兽医进入NHP临床医学领域，并增加完成培训后加入并继续在灵长类机构工作的人数；特别是在NCRR支持的八个国家灵长类研究中心(NPRC)之一。我们提议的新计划将安排为为期三年的实习。第一年将由大学资助，基于我们现有的计划，专注于多物种实验动物培训。正在寻求资金的最后两年将专注于深入的NHP临床医学，并将比我们现有的计划更加全面。这一扩展的NHP派驻计划是在我们现有的ACLAM认证计划的框架内设计的，因此我们的派驻人员将在第二年年底获得董事会资格。三年后，住院医生应该为他们的ACLAM委员会考试做好充分的准备。我们建议提供具有竞争力的薪酬方案，以充分补偿延长的学习期限。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Yerkes National Primate Research Center (YNPRC), Emory University, proposes to provide financially attractive, highly specialized training opportunities for veterinarians in nonhuman primate (NHP) veterinary medicine, resource management, and research support. Our goal is to attract and retain some of the best and brightest veterinarians for intensive training in this important and under-subscribed discipline, thus helping to ameliorate the current national shortage of primate veterinarians in biomedical facilities. Our program will take advantage of the many learning opportunities afforded by the YNPRC/Emory environment including: technical and clinical expertise (veterinary, enrichment, colony and facility management, pathology, etc.); the Center's 3000+/seven species of NHPs that are maintained in a variety of housing and social grouping situations at two different facilities; a wide array of biomedical studies that utilize NHPs in an exceptionally strong translational research program; state of the art research and diagnostic support facilities; a close linkage with the Emory School of Medicine and strong collaborative links with other biomedical institutes in the vicinity, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), V.A. Medical Center and nearby Universities (Georgia, Georgia Tech, Morehouse). The proposed YNPRC Primate Clinical Education Program will complement an already excellent Emory/YNPRC two-year ACLAM certified lab animal residency program that has been highly successful, focusing on producing well-rounded, broadly trained laboratory animal veterinarians. The new YNPRC program is specifically designed to attract more veterinarians to the NHP clinical medicine field and to increase the number that join, and remain working in, primate facilities upon completion of their training; in particular, at one of the eight NCRR supported National Primate Research Centers (NPRCs). Our proposed new program will be structured as a three-year residency. The first year will be University funded and focus on multi-species lab animal training, based on our existing program. The final two years, for which funding is being sought, will focus on in-depth NHP clinical medicine and will be significantly more comprehensive than our existing program. This expanded NHP residency program is designed within the framework of our existing ACLAM certified program, thus our residents will be board eligible at the end of year two. After the three year period, residents should be fully prepared for their ACLAM board examinations. We propose a competitive remuneration package to adequately compensate for the extended period of study.