UM Graduate Training Program in Translational and Clinical Investigation

描述(由申请人提供)：迈阿密大学临床与翻译调查研究生培训计划(UM-GTPTCI)将聘请合格的医疗专业人员参加一个高度整合和跨学科的计划，该计划将通过为未来学术研究人员和领导者的发展提供基础，进一步促进翻译科学学科的发展。这一课程发展奖的总体目标是吸引有前途的新研究者和早期研究者(ESIS)进入翻译科学学科，使他们把对学术翻译科学的追求作为自己的职业目标。这将通过三个具体目标来实现：[1)：接触：我们的目标是让大量的技术实习生接触临床研究，特别是翻译科学。(2)培训：那些接触过翻译科学并具有必要资质的人将成为我们新的翻译和临床研究硕士课程的候选人。在K30应用程序的支持下，我们的课程开发努力将导致这个新的理科硕士学位。(3)职业发展：在成功完成培训期间和完成培训后，我们将制定新的职业发展和留用初级教师的机制。这些机制包括机构K12计划和新兴迈阿密学者计划。这笔赠款支持的课程开发奖励结构的一个重要功能是评估UM-GTPTCL的有效性，并根据结果对计划进行适应性改变。正式评估程序将包括一个旨在实现以下目标的结构化程序：(A)评估参与者的历史；(B)评估硕士课程；(C)确定毕业标准所反映的最终同类结果；以及(D)评估干预措施后的结果。该计划的创新部分将包括旨在解决翻译研究培训的培训结构，适用于不同种族社区的培训，以及专注于招募和培训那些代表性不足的社区的成员，以便他们能够成为能够以最佳方式参与自己社区的学术领袖。该计划还包括发展和改进指导技能的结构化程序。 公共卫生相关性(由申请人提供)：南佛罗里达州的人口基数超过600万，背景最多样化。目前这里没有翻译和临床科学的高级学位。我们提出了一个课程开发努力，旨在创建一个创新的职业发展计划和一个翻译和临床调查硕士计划，重点是让少数群体参与到转化医学中来。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Miami Graduate Training Program in clinical and Translational Investigation (UM-GTPTCI) will engage qualified healthcare professionals in a highly integrated and cross-disciplinary program which will further the discipline of translational science by providing a foundation for the development of future academic researchers and leaders. The overall goal of this curriculum development award is to engage promising new investigators and early stage investigators (ESIs) in the discipline of translational science, so that they make the pursuit of academic translational science their own professional goal. This will be achieved through three specific aims: [1): Exposure: We aim at exposing vast numbers of chnical trainees to clinical research and specifically to translational science. (2) Training: Those who have been exposed to translational science and have the necessary credentials will be candidates to enter our new Masters Program in Translational and Clinical Investigation. Our curriculum development efforts supported by this K30 application will lead to this new Masters of Science Degree. (3) Career development: During and after successful completion of training we will develop new mechanisms for career development and retention of junior faculty. Such mechanisms include the institutional K12 program and the emerging Miami Scholars Program. An important function of the curriculum development award structure to be supported by this grant will be to evaluate the effectiveness of the UM- GTPTCl and to make adaptive changes in the Program based upon the results. The formal evaluation process will include a structured process aimed at the following goals: (a) assessing the history of the participants, (b) assessing the Masters Program, (c) determining terminal cognate outcomes, which are reflected in meeting criteria for graduation, and (d) evaluating the outcomes that follow the intervention. Innovative components of the program will include training structures aimed at addressing translational research training applied to diverse ethnic communities and a focus on recruiting and training members of those same under represented communities so that they can become academic leaders able to optimally engage their own communities. The program also includes structured procedure to develop and improve mentorship skills. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE (provided by the applicant): South Florida has a population base of over 6 million people of the most diverse backgrounds. There is currently here no advanced degree in Translational and Clinical Science. We propose a curriculum development effort aimed at creating an innovative program of career development and a Masters Program in Translational and Clinical Investigation focused on engaging minority populations in translational medicine.