MIDWEST REGIONAL NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE FELLOWSHIP CONFERENCE

描述（由申请人提供）：中西部地区新生儿-围产期医学研究金会议的总体目标是改善新生儿-围产期医学和围产期流行病学学员的招募和保留，使其成为医师科学家。为了实现美国国立卫生研究院针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实现这些目标所需的基础、转化和临床研究的医师科学家。本次会议的目的是：1）让新生儿-围产期医学实习生更好地了解医生-科学家的职业道路，2）确定新生儿-围产期医学实习生职业选择的重要因素，3）促进机构间研究合作。为了实现这些目标，会议的一个会议是由实习生和导师二人组进行演讲，他们不仅讨论特定的研究项目，还讨论他们遇到的与成为医师科学家相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。除了演讲之外，还包括一个由教师和学员进行公开讨论的会议。讨论的主题可能包括：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、受训者的招募和选择以及增加受训者的多样性。 目标是，通过这种开放式讨论培训计划可以制定以下策略：1）招募将追求医师-科学家职业道路的学员，2）通过研究员培训课程保留医师-科学家道路上的研究员，以及3）使研究员轨道上的个人从实习生顺利过渡到初级教员。最后，与会议相关的培训计划开发了一个学员数据库，其中包括有关选择培训计划的重要因素以及研究员职业选择的重要因素的数据。该数据库将用于确定有助于招募和保留实习生进入医师科学家职业道路的因素。

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.