Training Program in Gastrointestinal Epidemiology

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的GI流行病学培训计划的目的是培养在临床研究的设计和执行方面接受过培训的学术胃肠病学家。这是我们以医学为重点的计划的第二次竞争性更新申请，该计划是美国仅有的三个GI流行病学培训计划之一。通过这种培训，这些GI研究员成为成功竞争外部资金的初级教师。自2002年成立以来，已有10名学员完成了该计划：80%（8/10）接受了学术医疗中心的终身职位，70%成功申请了基金会或联邦职业发展奖。(Our最近的实习生将参加终身职位的面试。）请求为2名博士后受训人员提供支助（即，胃肠病学研究员） 每名博士后学员都要完成两年的培训。GI流行病学培训方案的目标是：（a）完成侧重于临床研究设计和执行的硕士学位;（B）完成重点GI流行病学系列研讨会和综合临床流行病学/保健政策系列研讨会;（c）在导师团队的指导下成功设计、执行和出版多个临床研究项目，包括方法学专家（例如，流行病学家）和内容专家（例如，胃肠病学家）;以及（d）准备职业发展奖赠款申请，以提供过渡资金，并促进学术医学和研究方面的独立职业。每个学员都专注于一个特定的问题（例如，IL-28 B多态性对HCV治疗的影响）并完成三个项目：（a）荟萃分析;（B）回顾性数据库研究;和（c）前瞻性试验的设计。这些项目为职业发展奖赠款申请提供了基础和初步数据。密歇根大学的环境拥有来自多个中心和研究机构的大量资源。这些资源包括罗伯特·伍德约翰逊基金会临床学者计划，安阿伯VA临床管理研究中心（VA卓越医疗服务研究与发展中心）和密歇根临床与健康研究所（MICHR）。我们的多学科教师包括专家生物统计学家，流行病学家，以及来自普通内科和胃肠病学部门的结果研究人员。大多数教师都是联邦政府资助他们正在进行的研究，这些教师提供了广泛的研究专业知识与多层次的既定合作和多年的经验指导学员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of our Training Program in GI Epidemiology is to develop academic gastroenterologists trained in the design and execution of clinical research. This is the second competitive renewal application of our uniquely-focused program, which is one of only three GI Epidemiology Training Programs in the US. With this training, these GI fellows become junior faculty who successfully compete for external funding. Since inception in 2002, 10 trainees have completed this program: 80% (8/10) accepted tenure-track positions at academic medical centers and 70% successfully applied for foundation or federal career development awards. (Our most recent trainee will be interviewing for a tenure-track position.) Support is requested for 2 post-doctoral trainees (i.e., gastroenterology fellows) with each post-doctoral trainee completing two years of training. The goals of the Training Program in GI Epidemiology are: (a) Completion of a MSc degree focused on the design and execution of clinical research; (b) Completion of a focused GI Epidemiology seminar series and a comprehensive clinical epidemiology/health care policy seminar series; (c) Successful design, execution, and publication of multiple clinical research projects under the guidance of a team of mentors, including methodology experts (e.g., epidemiologists) and content experts (e.g., gastroenterologists); and, (d) Preparation of a career development award grant application to provide transitional funding and facilitate an independent career in academic medicine and research. Each trainee focuses on a specific issue (e.g., impact of IL-28b polymorphism on treatment of HCV) and completes three projects: (a) a meta-analysis; (b) a retrospective database study; and, (c) design of a prospective trial. These projects provide the foundation and preliminary data for the career development award grant application. The environment at the University of Michigan has vast resources from multiple centers and research institutes. These resources include the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Ann Arbor VA Center for Clinical Management Research (VA Center of Excellence for Health Services Research & Development), and the Michigan Institute of Clinical & Health Research (MICHR). Our multi-disciplinary faculty includes expert biostatisticians, epidemiologists, and outcomes researchers from the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. Most faculty are federally funded for their on-going research, and these faculty offer a broad spectrum of research expertise with multiple levels of established collaboration and many years of experience mentoring trainees.