Medical Scientist Training Program Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：罗彻斯特大学在培养医学科学家方面有着悠久的历史，许多校友为生物医学研究做出了贡献，并在学术医学中心担任领导职务。对医师科学家的需求持续增长，他们在将研究发现转化为临床和将临床经验带到实验室中发挥着独特的作用。罗彻斯特大学MSTP的主要目标是为未来的医生和科学家提供严格和高效的培训提供独特和综合的环境。这是通过在所有项目中沉浸在基础科学和临床暴露中，并结合一段时间的重点研究来完成的。利用大学高度协作和跨学科的环境，在广泛的领域提供学位，包括强调特定器官系统的基础生物医学科学，生物医学工程，生物统计学，流行病学和卫生服务研究的人口基础学位，以及生物学和化学等学院课程。正如本申请中所描述的，我们的制度环境继续受到优秀教师，资源和基础设施的增长的鼓舞，从而导致培训机会的显着扩大。最近，这包括临床转化科学研究所（CTSI）的发展，该研究所在2006年获得了CTSA的部分支持。CTSI提供了无数的机会，以加强MSTP，包括资助博士年的医学博士培训和转化生物医学科学的新博士课程。医学院继续履行对MSTP的承诺，将每年的入学名额从2-3个增加到8个，并支持加强培训和招聘活动的新举措。我们已经成功地用对生物医学研究充满热情的积极向上的学生填补了这些空缺；净效应是我们的项目规模自2001年以来翻了一番。再加上罗彻斯特大学的承诺，这笔资金将确保这些人发展技能和见解，在这个充满活力的生物医学研究时代，发起并领导从科学到人类健康的转化。相关性：在临床病人护理和科学研究的界面上工作的医生科学家有很大的社会需求。罗彻斯特大学的MSTP为未来的医生科学家提供了对医学的深入了解和严谨的研究经验，使他们能够从事医学学术领域重要职位的职业，并将研究发现转化为健康改善。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Rochester has a long history of training physician-scientists, with numerous alumni contributing to biomedical research and assuming leadership positions at academic medical centers. There is a continued and growing need for physician-scientists, who serve a unique role in translating research discoveries to the clinic and bringing clinical experiences to the laboratory bench. The main objective of the University of Rochester MSTP is to provide a unique and integrated environment for the rigorous and efficient training of future physician-scientists. This is accomplished by immersion in basic science and clinical exposure through all program years combined with a period of focused research leading to the PhD. Degrees are offered in a wide range of areas that take advantage of the University's highly collaborative and interdisciplinary environment, including basic biomedical sciences with emphasis on specific organ systems, Biomedical Engineering, population based degrees in Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Health Services Research, and College-based programs such as Biology and Chemistry. As described in this application, our institutional environment continues to be invigorated by growth in outstanding faculty, resources and infrastructure, resulting in significant expansion of training opportunities. Most recently, this includes development of a Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI), supported in part by a CTSA granted in 2006. The CTSI provides myriad opportunities that enhance the MSTP, including funded slots for the PhD years of MD-PhD training and a new PhD program in Translational Biomedical Science. The medical school continues its commitment to the MSTP, increasing the number of incoming slots from 2-3 to 8 each year and supporting new initiatives to enhance training and recruitment activities. We have been successful in filling these slots with highly motivated students who are passionate about biomedical research; the net effect is a doubling of our program size since 2001. Coupled with the University of Rochester's commitment, funds from this renewal will ensure that these individuals develop the skills and insights to initiate and lead the translation from science to human health during this dynamic era of biomedical research. RELEVANCE: There is a great societal need for physician-scientists who work at the interface of clinical patient care and scientific investigation. The MSTP at the University of Rochester equips future physician-scientists with an in depth understanding of medicine and a rigorous research experience, allowing them to pursue careers that fill important positions in academic medicine and translate research discoveries to health improvement.