WRHR - A Mentoring Program in Women's Reproductive Health Research at the Univers

描述(申请人提供)：佛蒙特大学产科、妇科和生殖科学系致力于内科科学家的职业发展，重点是女性健康。为此，我们组建了一个由20名经验丰富的调查人员组成的多学科小组，他们将担任导师，并成立了一个由9名成员组成的咨询委员会，并正在申请WRHR职业发展计划赠款，以正式和促进培训过程。每位导师都有一个积极的、受资助的研究计划，涉及五个科学主题中的一个，这些主题反映了我们研究所的研究优势，我们的培训工作将围绕这些主题构建-女性血管疾病、生殖道平滑肌收缩、生殖免疫学和传染病、遗传学和发育生物学，以及与新陈代谢和衰老相关的内分泌信号。WRHR学者将包括妇女和代表性不足的少数民族，并从我司以及我们区域和全国各地的OB/GYN培训方案中招聘。培训过程将包括指导补助金和手稿的准备和审查、实验设计和统计分析，以及负责任和合乎道德的研究行为。佛蒙特大学临床与转化科学中心和研究生院将提供开展成功研究所需的选修课的基础。研究过程中的直接经验将在初级导师的指导下获得。我们已经为之前几乎没有研究经验的个人创建了一个双轨计划。已确定的进展基准，包括及早正式确定具体目标、研讨会报告和正式审查程序，将有助于监测和确保每个人的进展。每位奖学金获得者将有机会出席并介绍他们的作品。我们预计一次招收三名世界卫生人力资源奖学金获得者，并在3-5年内完成培训，每个获奖者的终点是发展自己的科学思想和提交外部资助的赠款申请。 与公众相关：这是一项增加致力于通过高质量和伦理研究改善妇女健康的合格内科科学家数量的建议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Vermont is committed to the career development of physician-scientists with an emphasis on Women's Health. To this end we have assembled a multidisciplinary group of 20 experienced investigators, who will serve as mentors, and a nine-member Advisory Committee, and are applying for the WRHR Career Development Program grant to formalize and facilitate the training process. Each mentor has an active, funded research program in one of five scientific themes that reflects the research strengths of our Institution, and around which our training efforts will be structured - female vascular diseases, genital tract smooth muscle contractility, reproductive immunology and infectious disease, genetics and developmental biology, and endocrine signaling related to metabolism and aging. WRHR scholars will include women and under-represented minorities, and be recruited from our Department and from OB/GYN training programs in our region and throughout the country. The training process will include instruction in grant and manuscript preparation and review, experimental design and statistical analysis, and the responsible and ethical conduct of research. The University of Vermont Center for Clinical and Translational Science and the Graduate College will provide a foundation of elective courses required for performing successful research. Direct experience in the process of research will be obtained under the guidance of the primary mentor. We have created a two-track plan for individuals with little vs. substantial previous research experience. Defined benchmarks for progress, including early formalization of specific aims, seminar presentation, and a formal review process will help monitor and assure each individual's progress. Each Scholar will have the opportunity to attend and present their work. We anticipate enrollment of three WRHR Scholars at any one time, and completion of training in 3-5 years with the end point for each scholar being the development of his/her own scientific ideas and submission of grant applications for extramural funding. PUBLIC RELEVANCE: This is a proposal to increase the number of committed and qualified physician scientists devoted to the betterment of women's health through high quality and ethical research.