Training Program for the Next Generation of Oral Health Researchers (NextGen)

描述（由申请人提供）：人们经常说，我们国家面临的口腔健康问题超出了原发性疾病或发育病理学，而是复杂和多因素的，包括遗传，社会，文化，行为和环境因素。为了有效地管理口腔健康问题，我们需要解决这些条件的多因素性质。我们的假设是，要全面解决这些口腔健康需求，不仅需要能够推进科学和发现过程的个人，而且还需要能够领导和成为多学科团队的有效成员。解决国家的口腔需求将需要跨学科团队-一群受过独特训练的科学家，他们不仅对复杂的口腔，牙科和颅面疾病的多因素组成部分有着深刻的理解，而且也可以成为跨学科团队的有效领导者或成员。显然，单人或塔式科学项目的时代已经过去，高效的研究涉及临床医生和科学家团队。这个拟议的培训计划的目的是开发一个成功的，独立的，基本的，临床和翻译的口腔健康研究学者谁可以作为互动的科学家，以解决国家在牙科，口腔和颅面研究的医疗保健需求队列。根据设计，我们的计划涵盖了基础，转化和临床研究的全方位，包括人类疾病的基本机制，治疗干预，临床试验，口腔流行病学，卫生服务研究和卫生政策。我们的目标是创造一个高度互动的科学家谁可以作为学术牙科和研究机构的研究领导者的新干部。NextGen计划包括三个博士学位。学位授予课程和口腔生物学培训;卫生政策和管理，或口腔流行病学;一个硕士学位授予课程和培训牙医临床研究;和博士后奖学金的个人寻求先进的研究机会，在口腔生物学，卫生政策/管理，或口腔流行病学的研究生NextGen培训计划的目标是：1。培养口腔健康科学家的干部，能够通过招募高素质的学员到我们提出的计划导致博士学位的五个组成部分在多学科环境中进行研究。和史密斯学位或博士后研究奖学金。2.扩大我们目前的招聘工作，针对代表性不足的少数民族和妇女，并纳入职业发展的组成部分，旨在保留这些研究人员在学术环境。3.为学员提供必要的教学和体验式培训，使每个人都能开发和应用各种尖端技术的技能，如功能基因组学，生物信息学和系统生物学，以进行严格的生物医学，行为和临床研究。4.提供职业发展技能的正式培训机会，包括实验设计，生物统计学和数据分析，手稿和赠款写作，临床试验协调和管理，数据库管理，负责任的研究行为和道德。5.提供正式和体验式领导力培训（冲突解决，团队管理和文化能力）的机会，使学员能够作为研究团队的领导者和有效成员，整合从分子到人群的多学科活动。6.促进T90学员向个人研究培训奖励或其他研究培训支持机制的过渡，并协助他们的职业发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): It is often stated that the oral health problems facing our nation extend beyond primary disease or developmental pathologies, but are complex and multi-factorial to include genetic, social, cultural, behavioral and environmental factors. In order to effectively manage oral health problems we need to address the multi- factorial nature of these conditions. It is our hypothesis that to comprehensively addressing these oral health needs requires individuals who can not only advance the science and discovery processes, but who can also lead and be effective members of multidisciplinary teams. Addressing the oral needs of the nation will require interdisciplinary teams a uniquely trained group of scientists who not only have a firm understanding of the multi-factorial components of the complex oral, dental and craniofacial diseases, but who can also be effective leaders or members of interdisciplinary teams. Clearly, the era of solo or tower-based science programs has passed and highly effective research involves teams of clinicians and scientists. The purpose of this proposed training program is to develop a cohort of successful, independent, basic, clinical and translational Oral Health Research Scholars who can function as interactive scientists to address the nation's healthcare needs in dental, oral and craniofacial research. As designed, our program embraces the full spectrum of basic, translational and clinical research including fundamental mechanisms of human disease, therapeutic intervention, clinical trials, oral epidemiology, health services research and health policy. Our goal is to create a new cadre of highly interactive scientists who can serve as research leaders in academic dentistry and research institutions. The NextGen program encompasses three Ph.D. degree granting curricula and training in Oral Biology; Health Policy and Management, or Oral Epidemiology; one M.S. degree granting curriculum and training for Dentists in Clinical Research; and a postdoctoral fellowship for individuals seeking advanced research opportunities in Oral Biology, Health Policy/Management, or Oral Epidemiology The objectives of the UNC NextGen Training Program are to: 1. Train a cadre of oral health scientists able to conduct research in a multidisciplinary setting by recruiting high quality trainees into the five components of our proposed program leading to Ph.D. and M.S. degrees or postdoctoral research fellowship. 2. Expand our current recruitment efforts targeting under-represented minorities and women and incorporate career development components designed to retain these researchers in academic settings. 3. Provide trainees with the necessary didactic and experiential training so that each can develop and apply skills in various cutting edge technologies, such as functional genomics, bioinformatics, and systems biology, for the purpose of rigorous biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research. 4. Provide opportunities for formal training in career development skills that include experimental design, biostatistics and data analysis, manuscript and grant writing, clinical trials coordination and management, data base management, responsible conduct of research, and ethics. 5. Provide opportunities for formal and experiential leadership training (conflict resolution, team management, and cultural competency), permitting trainees to function as leaders and effective members of research teams that integrate multidisciplinary activities ranging from molecules to populations. 6. Facilitate transition of T90 trainees to individual research training awards or other mechanisms of research training support and assist them in career development.