Training Program in Gerontological and Geriatric Medicine

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的12个月里，维克森林大学的老年学和老年病学项目达到了许多重要的里程碑。2008年1月，威克大学被指定为约翰·哈特福德老年教育和医学卓越中心（PI: Williamson）， 2008年5月，威克森林大学的克劳德·d·佩珀美国老年人独立中心（P30 AG21332, PI: Kritchevsky）以“整合影响身体功能的途径，为预防残疾的新方法”为主题，进行了第四次更新。我们的规划目标是为医生和非医生提供临床衰老研究的综合职业发展途径。利用机构和外部资源，我们的项目已经实施了旨在吸引医学生和住院医生参与临床老年医学研究的活动，并支持初级教师在老年研究方面的发展。目前，培训连续体的缺失部分是在研究员/博士后水平。因此，我们正在申请资金支持建立一个老年研究员/博士后培训计划，旨在提供临床衰老研究的关键研究技能，为未来的学术医学职业生涯奠定坚实的基础。我们项目的目标是：目标1。建立以预防功能衰退为重点的老年学/老年病研究博士后培训项目。Subaim 1。招募、培训和指导2名老年研究员，提供为期2年的研究奖学金，旨在培养以下技能：a)科学文献的批判性阅读，b)假设发展，c)研究设计和执行，包括研究的道德行为，d)数据分析和展示，e)拨款写作。Subaim 1 b。招募，培训和指导2名来自老年医学/老年医学以外领域的非医师研究人员，进行为期2年的博士后项目，旨在培养a)对老年研究中具有高度临床相关性的关键问题的理解，b)假设发展，c)研究设计和执行，包括研究的道德行为，d)数据分析和演示，e)资助写作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over the past 12-months Wake Forest's Gerontology and Geriatrics program has reached a number of important milestones. In Jaunuary of 2008, Wake was designated as a John A. Hartford Center of Excellence in Geriatric Education and Medicine (PI: Williamson) and in May of 2008, Wake Forest's Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (P30 AG21332, PI: Kritchevsky) was renewed for its fourth cycle with its theme, "Integrating pathways affecting physical function for new approaches to disability prevention. Our programmatic goal is to provide for an integrated career development pathway in clinical aging research for both physician and non-physicians. Using both institutional and external resources our program has implemented activities designed to engage medical students and residents in clinical geriatric research and to support junior faculty development in aging research. Currently, the missing piece of the training continuum is at the fellowship / post-doctoral level. Therefore, we are requesting funds to support establishment of a geriatric fellow / post-doctoral training program designed to provide critical research skills in clinical aging research to provide a solid foundation for a future career in academic medicine. Our program's aims are: Aim 1. Establish a post-doctoral fellowship training program in gerontological / geriatric research with an emphasis on the prevention of functional decline. Subaim 1a. Recruit, train and mentor 2 geriatric fellows in a 2-year research fellowship designed to develop skills in a) critical reading of the scientific literature, b) hypothesis development, c) research design and execution including the ethical conduct of research, d) data analysis and presentation, and e) grant writing. Subaim 1b. Recruit, train and mentor 2 non-physician researchers from areas out-side of geriatrics/geriatrics in a 2-year post-doctoral program designed to develop a) an understanding of key problems in aging research of high clinical relevance, b) hypothesis development, c) research design and execution including the ethical conduct of research, d) data analysis and presentation, and e) grant writing.