Pittsburgh Pediatric Rheumatology Training Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：这是匹兹堡儿科风湿病培训补助金的续期申请。儿童风湿病学侧重于儿童的肌肉骨骼和自身免疫性疾病。在美国（2008年）有237名获得委员会认证的儿科风湿病学家为这些儿童提供服务。除了少数人之外，他们都是不从事研究的临床医生。因此，很少有儿科风湿病学家有研究指导，他们缺乏进行尖端研究的技能。匹兹堡儿童医院的儿科风湿病科在大量和持续的机构支持下，努力创建一个国家卓越中心，提供全面的，最先进的临床护理，教育项目，以及涉及临床，转化和基础科学的竞争性研究。我们的培训项目是仅有的两个nih资助的专门针对儿童风湿病学的培训项目之一。我们的中心任务之一是教育新一代的学术儿科风湿病学家，他们可以在医学科学家的专业中发挥主导作用。目标是提供训练有素的医学博士学术儿科风湿病学家和博士科学家的主要来源，以服务于儿科风湿病前沿研究的国家需要。为了实现这一使命，我们力求在一个中心内提供研究榜样、指导和丰富的环境，以培养这样的个人并确保他们的成功。我们的项目目前每年有4名学员，为了每年提供两名新学员，并为每位学员提供两年的支持，请继续提供支持。受训人员将由两类人组成。至少75%将是完成了第一年临床培训的儿科风湿病医学博士。经过第一年的强化临床培训，他们将从项目教师中选择一名导师，以获得卓越的研究经验，这些经验将被用作独立学术生涯的基础。高达25%的博士实习生希望将他们的研究事业集中在儿科风湿病学上。他们将从研究儿童风湿病的教员中挑选一名导师。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a renewal application for The Pittsburgh Pediatric Rheumatology Training Grant. Pediatric rheumatology focuses on musculoskeletal and autoimmune diseases of childhood. Serving this population of children are 237 board-certified pediatric rheumatologists in the United States (as of 2008). All but a handful of these are clinicians who do not engage in research. As a result, few pediatric rheumatologists have had research mentorship and they lack the skills to perform cutting edge research. The Division of Pediatric Rheumatology at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, with substantial and sustained institutional support, has endeavored to create a national center of excellence offering comprehensive, state-of-the-art clinical care, educational programs, and competitive research involving clinical, translational, and basic sciences. Our Training Program is one of only two NIH-funded training programs dedicated to pediatric rheumatology. One of our central missions is to educate a new generation of academic pediatric rheumatologists who can play a leading role in the specialty as physician scientists. The goal is to provide a prime source of well- trained M.D. academic pediatric rheumatologists and Ph.D. scientists to serve the national need for cutting- edge research in the pediatric rheumatic diseases. To achieve this mission, we seek to provide, within a single center, the research role models, mentorship, and rich environment necessary for nurturing such individuals and ensuring their success. Support is requested to continue the current number of trainees in our program, currently four trainees per year, in order to provide two new trainees per year and two years of support for each trainee. The trainees will consist of two types of individuals. At least 75% will be pediatric rheumatology M.D. fellows who have completed a first year of clinical training. Following a first year of intensive clinical training, they will select a mentor from among the program faculty in order to gain exceptional research experience that will be used as the basis of an independent academic career. Up to 25% will be Ph.D. trainees who desire to focus their research careers in pediatric rheumatology. They will select a mentor from among the faculty who study the pediatric rheumatic diseases.