MIDWEST REGIONAL NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE FELLOWSHIP CONFERENCE

描述（由申请人提供）：中西部地区新生儿-围产期医学奖学金会议的总体目标是提高新生儿-围产期医学和围产期流行病学实习生的招聘和保留，使其成为医生-科学家。为了实现美国国立卫生研究院为孕妇和新生儿制定的公共卫生目标，培训计划必须继续培训能够进行必要的基础，转化和临床研究以实现这些目标的医生科学家。本次会议的目的是：1）在围产期医学学员中更好地了解医生-科学家职业途径，2）确定围产期医学学员职业选择的重要因素，3）促进机构间的研究合作。为了实现这些目标，会议的一个环节是由受训者-导师二人组进行演讲，不仅讨论具体的研究项目，还讨论与成为他们遇到的医生-科学家有关的具体问题以及他们解决这些问题的方法。这可能包括确定导师，选择项目，从学员过渡到教师，获得资金以及保持工作与生活平衡等问题。除了演讲外，还包括一个由教师和学员进行公开讨论的会议。本次讨论的主题可能包括：重要因素在职业选择的学员，战略发展和保持成功的研究培训计划，招聘和选择的学员，并增加学员之间的多样性。 我们的目标是，通过这种开放式的讨论，培训计划可以制定策略，1）招聘将追求医生-科学家职业道路的学员，2）通过他们的奖学金培训课程保留医生-科学家道路上的研究员，以及3）为研究人员轨道上的个人从学员到初级教师的平稳过渡。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可能有助于招聘和留住医生-科学家职业道路受训人员的因素。 公共卫生相关性：开展妊娠期疾病和新生儿疾病的研究，对保障孕产妇和新生儿的健康具有重要意义。本次会议旨在帮助实习医生成为科学家，他们可以进行实验室和临床研究，这对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.