MIDWEST REGIONAL NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE FELLOWSHIP CONFERENCE

描述(由申请者提供)：中西部地区新生儿-围产期医学研究金会议的总体目标是促进新生儿-围产期医学和围产期流行病学实习生的招募和留住，使其成为医生-科学家。为了实现美国国立卫生研究院对孕妇和新生儿的公共卫生目标，培训方案必须继续培训能够进行必要的基础研究、转化研究和临床研究的内科科学家，以实现这些目标。这次会议的目的是：1)在新生儿-围产期医学实习生中更好地了解医生-科学家的职业道路；2)确定在新生儿-围产期医学实习生中选择职业的重要因素；3)促进机构间的研究合作。为了实现这些目标，会议的一个环节是实习生-导师二人组的演讲，他们不仅讨论一个具体的研究项目，而且讨论与成为一名内科科学家有关的具体问题以及他们对这些问题的方法。这可能包括确定导师(S)、选择项目、从实习生过渡到教员、获得资金以及保持工作与生活平衡等问题。除了报告外，还包括一次公开讨论，供教职员工和实习生讨论。讨论的主题可能包括：学员职业选择中的重要因素，开发和维持成功的研究培训计划的策略，学员的招聘和选择，以及学员之间日益多样化。目标是通过这一开放式讨论培训计划可以为以下方面制定战略：1)招募将从事医生-科学家职业道路的受训人员，2)通过研究员培训课程留住医生-科学家道路上的研究员，以及3)为研究人员轨道上的个人顺利从实习生过渡到初级教员。最后，与会议有关的培训方案开发了一个学员数据库，其中包括选择培训方案的重要因素和研究员职业选择的重要因素的数据。该数据库将被用来确定在招募和留住受训人员到医生-科学家职业道路上可能有用的因素。 公共卫生相关性：对妊娠和新生儿疾病的研究对确保孕妇及其新生儿的健康很重要。这次会议旨在帮助正在接受培训的医生成为能够进行实验室和临床研究的科学家，这些研究对于更好地了解怀孕和新生儿的健康问题至关重要。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall objective of the Midwest Regional Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Conference is to improve the recruitment and retention of trainees in neonatal-perinatal medicine and perinatal epidemiology to careers as physician-scientists. In order to achieve the public health goals of the National Institutes of Health for pregnant women and the newborn, it is essential for training programs to continue to train physician-scientists who can perform the basic, translational, and clinical research necessary to meet these goals. The aims of this conference are to: 1) create a better understanding of the physician-scientist career pathway among neonatal-perinatal medicine trainees, 2) identify factors important in career choice among neonatal-perinatal medicine trainees, and 3) facilitate inter-institutional research collaboration. In order to achieve these aims, one session of the conference is presentations by trainee-mentor dyads that discuss not only a specific research project but also specific issues related to becoming a physician- scientist they have encountered and their approaches to these issues. This may include issues such as identifying a mentor(s), selecting a project, making the transition from trainee to faculty, obtaining funding, and maintaining work-life balance. In addition to the presentations, a session is also included for an open discussion by faculty and trainees. Topics of this discussion may include: factors important in career choice for trainees, strategies for developing and maintaining successful research training programs, recruiting and selection of trainees, and increasing diversity among trainees. The goal is that through this open ended discussion training programs can develop strategies for 1) the recruitment of trainees who will pursue the physician-scientist career pathway, 2) the retention of fellows on the physician-scientist pathway through the course of their fellowship training, and 3) smooth the transition from trainee to junior faculty for individuals on the investigator track. Finally, the training programs associated with the conference have developed a trainee database that includes data on factors important in selecting a training program and factors important in career choice for fellows. The database will be used to identify factors that can be useful in recruitment and retention of trainees to the physician-scientist career pathway. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Research on the diseases of pregnancy and the newborn infant are important to insuring the health of pregnant women and their newborn infants. This conference is designed to help physicians-in-training become scientists who can perform the laboratory and clinical research critical to better understanding the health problems of pregnancy and the newborn.