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

描述（由申请人提供）：佛蒙特大学妇产科和生殖科学系致力于医学科学家的职业发展，重点是妇女健康。为此，我们组建了一个由20名经验丰富的调查员组成的多学科小组（他们将担任导师）和一个由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，以使培训过程正规化和便利化。每个导师都有一个活跃的，资助的研究项目，在五个科学主题中的一个，反映了我们研究所的研究优势，并围绕着我们的培训工作将被构建-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，以及与代谢和衰老相关的内分泌信号。WRHR的学者将包括妇女和代表性不足的少数民族，他们将从本部门以及本地区和全国各地的妇产科培训项目中招聘。培训过程将包括资助和手稿准备和审查、实验设计和统计分析以及负责任和合乎道德的研究行为方面的指导。佛蒙特大学临床与转化科学中心和研究生院将提供成功开展研究所需的选修课程的基础。研究过程中的直接经验将在主要导师的指导下获得。我们为以前研究经验少和丰富的个人创建了一个双轨计划。确定的进度基准，包括具体目标的早期形式化、研讨会的介绍和正式的审查过程，将有助于监督和确保每个人的进度。每位学者都有机会参加并展示他们的作品。我们预计将同时招收三名WRHR学者，并在3-5年内完成培训，每位学者的最终目标是发展自己的科学思想并提交校外资助申请。

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.