YNPRC Nonhuman Primate Clinical Medicine Residency Program

描述（由申请人提供）：埃默里大学耶基斯国家灵长类动物研究中心（YNPRC）提议为非人灵长类动物（NHP）兽医学、资源管理和研究支持方面的兽医提供经济上有吸引力的高度专业化的培训机会。我们的目标是吸引和留住一些最优秀和最聪明的兽医，在这一重要和不足的学科进行强化培训，从而帮助改善目前全国生物医学设施中灵长类动物兽医短缺的状况。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，富集，菌落和设施管理，病理学等）;该中心的3000+/七种NHPs在两个不同的设施中保持在各种住房和社会群体的情况下;在非常强大的转化研究计划中利用NHPs的各种生物医学研究;最先进的研究和诊断支持设施;与埃默里医学院的密切联系以及与附近其他生物医学研究所的密切合作关系，包括美国疾病控制和预防中心（CDC），弗吉尼亚州。医疗中心和附近的大学（格鲁吉亚，格鲁吉亚理工学院，莫尔豪斯）。 拟议的YNPRC灵长类临床教育计划将补充已经很好的 Emory/YNPRC为期两年的ACLAM认证的实验室动物住院计划非常成功，专注于培养全面的，经过广泛培训的实验室动物兽医。新的YNPRC计划是专门设计来吸引更多的兽医到NHP临床医学领域，并增加加入的数量，并在完成培训后继续在灵长类动物设施工作;特别是在八个NCRR支持的国家灵长类动物研究中心（NPRCs）之一。我们提出的新计划将被结构为三年的居住。第一年将由大学资助，并专注于多物种实验室动物训练，基于我们现有的计划。正在寻求资金的最后两年将专注于深入的NHP临床医学，并且将比我们现有的计划更加全面。这个扩展的NHP居住计划是在我们现有的ACLAM认证计划的框架内设计的，因此我们的居民将在第二年年底获得董事会资格。三年后，居民应充分准备他们的ACLAM委员会考试。我们建议提供具竞争力的薪酬待遇，以充分补偿延长的学习时间。

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.