UCSD Postdoctoral Training Program in Laboratory Animal Medicine

描述(由申请者提供)：目前的提案寻求在加州大学圣地亚哥分校(UCSD)现有和成功的培训计划的基础上，为拥有DVM或VMD学位的毕业兽医提供密集和持续的培训经验，为转译生物医学研究领域的实验动物医学兽医职业生涯做准备。要求提供资金，以便在五年期间再培训三名兽医。为期三年的培训计划的头两年提供实验动物兽医各种任务和职责的一般和专门培训。受训者将获得与加州大学圣迭戈分校现有的广泛物种合作的专业知识，他们还将获得与圣地亚哥社区各种动物收藏和研究机构的更广泛物种合作的多种独特机会。培训计划的授课部分将包括至少200个小时的教师培训，并通过多种形式提供，包括课堂、研讨会系列、轮次和密集复习课程。候选人的基础研究能力发展培训将集中在第三年。在这一年中，培训的重点将是提高参与者对科学过程的认识，介绍适当进行研究的概念，就指导研究项目进行研究，发展研究技术，并完善他们展示和交流研究成果的技能。参与者将与一名研究导师配对，该导师拥有一个资金充足的研究实验室，并在传染病、代谢性疾病、癌症生物学和治疗、先进成像、信号转导和信号以及免疫学等领域进行尖端研究。加州大学圣迭戈分校动物护理计划(ACP)主任拥有20多年的兽医和研究经验，并是美国实验动物医学院的文凭，他将负责培训计划。加州大学圣迭戈分校的培训团队还包括四名获得董事会认证的兽医(麻醉、医学、病理学和微生物学)；四名经验丰富的实验动物医学兽医，拥有近70年的联合生物医学研究经验；三名拥有持续和资金充足的研究实验室的DVM/博士兽医；多名医学博士和/或博士学位首席研究员，他们拥有NIH资助的尖端研究项目，随时准备担任实验室动物医学博士后培训生的导师。参与者将受益于22名兽医的积极参与，他们大多来自附近的机构，这为LAM兽医提供了广泛的研究、物种和学习机会，这在国内可能是无与伦比的。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The current proposal seeks to build on the University of California, San Diego's (UCSD) existing and successful training program, and provide an intensive and sustained training experience for graduate veterinarians with a DVM or VMD degree in preparation for a career as a Laboratory Animal Medicine veterinarian in translational biomedical research. Funds are requested for the training opportunity of an additional three veterinarians over a five-year period. The first two years of the three-year training program provide general and specialized training in the diverse tasks and duties of a laboratory animal veterinarian. Trainees will gain expertise working with the wide range of species present at UCSD and they are also afforded multiple unique opportunities with the wider range of species present at various zoological collections and research institutions of the San Diego community. The didactic portion of the training program will encompass a minimum of 200 hours with faculty and is delivered through multiple modalities including classes, seminar series, rounds, and intensive review sessions. Candidate training for the development of their ability to perform basic research will be concentrated in the third year. During this year, training will focus on enhancing the participants' awareness of the scientific process, introduction to the concepts for proper conduct of research, conducting research on a mentored research project, developing research techniques, and refining their skills to present and communicate research findings. Participants will be paired with a research mentor who maintains a well-funded research laboratory and is performing cutting edge research into areas such as infectious disease, metabolic disease, cancer biology and treatment, advanced imaging, signal transduction and signaling, and immunology. UCSD's Director of the Animal Care Program (ACP), with over 20 years of veterinary and research experience and a diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, will have primary responsibility for the training program. The UCSD training team also includes four board certified veterinarians (anesthesia, medicine, pathology, and microbiology); four accomplished Laboratory Animal Medicine veterinarians with almost 70 years of combined biomedical research experience; three DVM/Ph.D. veterinarians with ongoing and well-funded research laboratories and; multiple MD and/or Ph.D. degree principal investigators with cutting edge NIH-funded research programs ready to serve as mentors to the postdoctoral trainees in Laboratory Animal Medicine. Participants will benefit from the active participation of 22 veterinarians, mostly from institutions in the immediate vicinity, which provides a breadth of research, species and learning opportunities for LAM veterinarians that may be unmatched in the country.