Multidisciplinary Rheumatology Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：本提案是国家研究服务奖机构研究培训补助金(T32)的竞争性续签申请，以进一步支持约翰霍普金斯大学的多学科风湿病培训计划。在过去的4年里，该计划经历了显著的增长和出色的实习生成绩，包括出版物、培训后很高的教师聘任率以及非常高的独立、同行评审资金的获得率。我们证明，这个项目的总体发展轨迹是非常积极的，风湿病学博士后研究员可以获得出色的部门和机构资源，项目师资队伍有了实质性的增长和增强，申请者(包括女性和代表性不足的少数族裔)的竞争非常激烈，远远超过了目前可用的名额。该计划拥有非常积极和高度专业的内部和外部咨询委员会。该项目的教职员工具有广泛的兴趣和专业知识，在风湿病、免疫学、分子生物学和遗传学、细胞生物学、流行病学和生物统计学方面都是经验丰富的导师。该项目的总体目标仍然是通过严格的研究方法指导和沉浸在杰出的高质量指导研究项目中，培养杰出的学术风湿病专家。我们的培训环境专注于提供富有成效的临床、基础和转化性研究培训计划。将追求以下具体目标：[1]为风湿学博士后研究员提供严格的研究方法培训，适用于临床和基础研究；[2)利用临床英才中心提供接触明确定义的风湿病患者群体的途径，使伙伴项目能够在已建立的患者队列上进行；[3)在全国知名教师的指导下，邀请博士后研究员参与高水平的研究项目，解决重要问题；[4)整合博士后研究员的多层次指导，以完成生产性研究、独立性和成功的学术生涯发展；和[5]通过评估学术和方案成就的基准，包括同行评议的出版物、外部研究资助、培训后的学术地位以及招募代表不足的少数群体，评估和修改(通过纳入受训者、培训方案教员和内部和外部咨询委员会的反馈)这种培训环境的成果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is a competitive renewal application for a National Research Service Award Institutional Research Training Grant (T32) to further support a Multidisciplinary Rheumatology Training Program at Johns Hopkins. Over the past 4 years, the program has undergone substantial growth and outstanding trainee achievement, including publications, a high rate of faculty appointment after training, and a very high rate of acquisition of independent, peer-reviewed funding. We demonstrate that the overall trajectory of this program is steeply positive, with outstanding divisional and institutional resources available to postdoctoral fellows in rheumatology, substantial growth and enhancement of the program faculty, and a highly competitive pool of applicants (including women and under-represented minorities) that significantly exceed currently available slots. The program has very engaged and highly expert internal and external advisory committees. Members of the program faculty have a breadth of interests and expertise, and are proven mentors in the rheumatic diseases, immunology, molecular biology and genetics, cell biology, epidemiology and biostatistics. The overall goal of this program remains the development of outstanding academic rheumatologists, through rigorous instruction in research methodology and immersion in outstanding quality mentored research projects. Our training environment is focused on providing a productive clinical, basic and translational research training program. The following specific aims will be pursued: [1] Provide rigorous training in investigational methods to rheumatology postdoctoral fellows, applicable to the conduct of both clinical and basic research; [2] Utilize clinical centers of excellence to provide access to well-defined rheumatic disease patient populations, enabling fellow projects to be conducted on established patient cohorts; [3] Engage postdoctoral fellows in high caliber research projects addressing important questions under the supervision of nationally renowned faculty; [4] Integrate multi-layered mentorship for each postdoctoral fellow to accomplish productive research, independence, and development of a successful academic career; and [5] Assess, and modify (through incorporating feedback from trainees, training program faculty, and internal and external advisory committees) as needed, the outcomes of this training environment through assessing benchmarks of academic and programmatic achievement, including peer-reviewed publications, external research funding, post-training academic position, and recruitment of underrepresented minorities.