Pediatric Physician Training in Translational Research

描述(由申请人提供)：作为改善儿童健康总体目标的重要组成部分，阿拉巴马大学医学院(UASOM)儿科系提出了一项全面的计划，旨在指导培训优秀的年轻儿科医生科学家进行翻译生物医学研究。这项培训计划将通过儿童健康研究中心(CHRC)实施，并将最大限度地利用UASOM现有的综合基础研究和翻译研究能力。CHRC将集中在儿童健康研究的四个关键领域进行培训：(1)传染病和免疫学，(2)与肺损伤有关的疾病，(3)神经发育疾病，(4)遗传疾病。之所以选择这些领域，是因为它们对儿童健康很重要，而且UASOM内现有的资源将在这些生物医学研究领域培养杰出的有指导的培训经验。拟议的CHRC将在我们以前在儿科内科科学家培训方面取得的成功的基础上，通过完善我们的培训计划的组织，包括实施翻译研究的正式课程。此外，CHRC还纳入了一系列内部和外部评估机制，以确保CHRC的各个方面，从领导层到CHRC学者，都符合计划培训计划的目标。我们的总体目标是为儿科内科科学家的发展建立和保持一个优化的导师培训计划，这些科学家将作为儿童健康转化生物医学研究的独立研究员过渡到学术生涯。对公共卫生的重要性来自于研究的四个关键领域与儿童健康的相关性。此外，我们预计，训练有素的儿科内科科学家将拥有长期的、富有成效的学术生涯，有许多机会传播科学信息，并影响未来几代儿科医生。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As a major part of the overall goal to improve the health of children, the Department of Pediatrics of the University of Alabama School of Medicine (UASOM) has proposed a comprehensive plan for the mentored training of outstanding young pediatric physician scientists in translational biomedical research. This training program will be implemented through the Child Health Research Center (CHRC) and will take optimal advantage of the existing integrated basic and translational research capacity of the UASOM. The CHRC will focus its training in four key areas of research in child health: (1) infectious diseases and immunology, (2) diseases associated with lung injury, (3) neurodevelopmental diseases, and (4) genetic diseases. These areas have been selected because of their importance in child health and because the resources available within the UASOM will foster an outstanding mentored training experience in these areas of biomedical research. The proposed CHRC will build on our previous success in the training of pediatric physician scientists by refining the organization of our training program, including implementation of formal curriculum in translational research. In addition, the CHRC has incorporated a series of internal and external mechanisms of evaluation to insure all facets of the CHRC, extending from the leadership to the CHRC scholar, meet the objectives of the projected training program. Our overall goal is to institute and maintain an optimized mentored training program for the development of pediatric physician scientists who will be expected to transition into academic careers as independent investigators in translational biomedical research in child health. The significance to public health derives from the relevance of the four key areas of research to child health. In addition, we anticipate that well-trained pediatric physician scientists will have long, productive academic careers with many opportunities to disseminate scientific information and impact the future generations of pediatricians.