Comparative Biomedical Research Training for Veterinarians

描述（由申请人提供）：兽医是经过广泛培训的卫生专业人员，他们接受过研究培训，具有参与生物医学研究的独特资格。正如美国国家科学院的一个研究小组关于生物医学研究人员短缺问题所表示的那样：“人类医学和兽医学应被视为一门科学，一种医学”。国家研究理事会最近的一项研究得出结论，参与研究的兽医严重短缺。凭借强大的研究基础设施和大学资助的强大的住院医师计划，德克萨斯A&M大学有能力培养更多的兽医，以填补比较生物医学研究人员的严重短缺。 拟议的培训计划是专为后DVM，特别是与那些谁已经完成了三年的住院医师计划在一个专业领域，包括实验室动物医学，解剖病理学，临床病理学，微生物学和临床科学（医学，外科，放射学）交错。选择受训人员的标准将包括：1）本科和/或兽医项目研究经验和对生物医学研究职业的浓厚兴趣; 2）出色的学术记录和住院医师表现; 3）个人属性，如服务不足的少数民族背景，第一代毕业生和高职业道德;和4）沟通技巧。 拟议的研究计划是广泛的跨学科，导师主要是NIH的资金。这些杰出的导师来自德克萨斯A&M大学的多个学院/单位，但他们共同的愿望是在基础生物医学研究中培养兽医。研究领域包括传染病和代谢疾病、毒理学、营养学、发育生物学、癌症和神经科学，为学员提供尽可能广泛的生物医学研究领域和优秀导师的选择。 公共卫生相关性（由申请人提供）：拟议的计划与公共卫生高度相关，解决了在生物医学研究中承担重要角色所需的受过研究培训的兽医短缺问题。这些比较医学研究人员对于将基础生物医学研究转化为人类疾病的新治疗和管理至关重要。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Veterinarians are broadly trained health professionals, who with research training are uniquely qualified to participate in biomedical research. As expressed by a study group at the National Academy of Sciences on biomedical investigator shortages; "Human and veterinary medicine should be considered one science, one medicine". A recent study by the National Research Council concluded that there is a critical shortage of veterinarians involved in research. With a strong research infrastructure and university-funded robust residency programs, Texas A&M University is well positioned to prepare more veterinarians to fill this critical shortage of comparative biomedical researchers. The proposed training program is designed for post-DVMs, especially interdigitating with those who have completed a three year residency program in a specialty area, including laboratory animal medicine, anatomic pathology, clinical pathology, microbiology, and clinical sciences (medicine, surgery, radiology). The criteria for selection of trainees will include: 1) undergraduate and/or veterinary program research experience and strong interest in a career involving biomedical research; 2) outstanding academic record and residency performance; 3) personal attributes such as underserved minority background, first generation graduate, and high professional ethics; and 4) communication skills. The proposed research program is broadly interdisciplinary, with mentors having primarily NIH funding. These outstanding mentors were drawn from multiple Texas A&M University colleges/units, but share in common their desire to train veterinarians in basic biomedical research. Research areas include infectious and metabolic disease, toxicology, nutrition, developmental biology, cancer and neuroscience, giving mentees the broadest possible selection of biomedical research areas as well as outstanding mentors. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE (provided by applicant): The proposed program is highly relevant to public health by addressing the shortage of veterinarians with research training who are needed to assume important roles in biomedical research. These comparative medicine researchers are critical to the translation of basic biomedical research into new treatments and management of human disease conditions.