Medical Scientist Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：医学科学家培训计划（MSTP）在伯明翰（UAB）的亚拉巴马大学的重点是培养优秀的年轻人在智力学科是一个科学调查员和一个训练有素的医生。虽然个别受训人员的最终职业道路可能从基础生物医学研究到新型治疗剂或程序的临床试验，但这批研究人员的净效应将是增加将基本生物医学理解转化为临床实践。我们的计划旨在（1）在基础科学教育和临床教育的基础上提供一流的课堂培训;（2）培养学生成为成功的生物医学科学家所需的工具，包括赠款和手稿写作以及时间和实验室管理;和（3）研究生医生科学家谁继续成为全国学术医疗中心的领导者。UAB MSTP课程的基本结构与大多数课程相似，具有三个不同的阶段-两年的基础科学课程工作和夏季实验室轮换（临床前阶段），实验室研究的延长期导致博士学位（研究阶段），然后是临床培训导致MD学位（临床阶段）。我们计划的一个关键区别是，学生在头两年同时参加研究生院课程和医学院课程，并将门诊实习融入研究生阶段。我们的MSTP学生可以选择在校园内的多个学位授予项目中攻读博士学位，并将在我们新的主题课程中获得他们的研究生课程，其中包括癌症生物学，人类病理学，免疫学，微生物学，神经科学，遗传学，生物医学工程和生物化学。完成该计划的平均时间为7.9年。该计划通常每年接受8名学生，目前共有58名活跃学生。在本年度，UAB MSTP T32奖项提供了12个插槽的支持，尽管研究部分批准了14个插槽。在这项申请中，我们建议在五年内增加20个培训名额。 公共卫生相关性：在过去的30年中，生物医学科学的快速发展导致了对训练有素的研究人员的迫切需求，他们也直接参与临床医学，将生物医学科学中的多个新发现转化为可行的临床应用。联合培训现代医学和基础生物医学科学的特殊知识观点和技术专门知识方面的最杰出的个人是满足这一需要的一个关键组成部分。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The focus of the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is to train outstanding young people in the intellectual discipline of being a scientific investigator and a thoroughly trained physician. Although the ultimate career pathway for individual trainees may range from the conduct of basic biomedical research to clinical trials of novel therapeutic agents or procedures, the net effect of this cadre of investigators will be to increase the translation of basic biomedical understanding into clinical practice. Our Program aims to (1) offer superb classroom training in both basic science education and the fundamentals of clinical education; (2) train students in the tools necessary to become successful biomedical scientists, including grant and manuscript writing and time and laboratory management; and (3) graduate physician-scientists who go on to become leaders in academic medical centers throughout the country. The basic structure of the MSTP curriculum at UAB is similar to most programs with three distinct phases - two years of basic science course work and laboratory rotations in the summers (Pre-clinical Phase), an extended period of laboratory research leading to the PhD (Research Phase), followed by a clinical training leading to the MD degree (Clinical Phase). One key difference in our program is that students take both graduate school coursework and medical school coursework during their first two years and integrate an ambulatory clinic clerkship into their graduate years. Our MSTP students can choose to do their PhD in multiple degree-granting programs on campus and will get their graduate coursework in our new theme based programs, which include cancer biology, human pathoblology, immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, genetics, biomedical engineering, and biochemistry. The average time to complete our program is 7.9 years. The program usually accepts 8 students each year and currently has a total student body of 58 active students. In the current year, the UAB MSTP T32 award provided support for 12 slots, although the study section approved 14 slots. In this application, we propose an increase to a total of 20 training slots over a five-year period. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The rapid advances in biomedical sciences of the past 30 years has resulted in a critical need for well trained investigators who also have direct involvement with clinical Medicine to translate the multiple new discoveries in biomedical science into workable clinical applications. Joint training of the most outstanding individuals in both modern medicine and the special intellectual perspective and technical know-how of basic biomedical science is a key component of meeting this need.