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改善招募和留住新生儿-围产期医学和围产期流行病学培训生，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，培训项目必须继续培训能够进行基础、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)更好地了解新生儿-围产期医学学员的医师-科学家职业路径，2)确定影响新生儿-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学员-导师二人组进行演讲，他们不仅讨论一个具体的研究项目，还讨论与成为一名医生-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、从实习生到教师的转变、获得资金以及保持工作与生活的平衡等问题。除了演讲之外，还包括教师和学员的公开讨论环节。讨论的主题可能包括：影响受训者职业选择的重要因素，制定和维持成功的研究培训计划的策略，招募和选择受训者，以及增加受训者的多样性。我们的目标是，通过这种开放式的讨论，培训项目可以制定以下策略：1)招募将追求医师-科学家职业道路的学员；2)在研究员培训过程中保留医师-科学家道路上的研究员；3)从实习生到研究员轨道上的初级教员的平稳过渡。最后，与会议有关的培训项目开发了一个培训生数据库，其中包括选择培训项目的重要因素和研究员职业选择的重要因素的数据。该数据库将用于确定在征聘和保留医生-科学家职业道路的受训人员方面可能有用的因素。

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.