UM Clinical Neuroscientist Training Program

描述(申请人提供)：我们治疗神经系统疾病的能力与我们对正常神经系统功能、疾病发病机制和疾病病理生理学的快速增长的了解之间存在着明显的差距。改善神经系统疾病的治疗需要大大改善新兴的基础神经科学与临床实践的结合，从基础发现到临床前和临床研究再到实施。改善以疾病为导向的神经科学研究活动和更有效的翻译的整合的障碍是缺乏 训练有素的临床医生--神经学家。美国医学院培养了大量具有丰富研究经验的医生，包括医学博士和在临床和政策研究方面有丰富经验和正规培训的个人。然而，传统的临床培训结构阻碍了这些有才华和训练有素的人有效地开始富有成效的独立研究事业的能力。我们建议一个基于住院医师奖学金的培训计划，将基于住院医师奖学金的临床培训与指导研究培训相结合，将神经学、神经外科和神经病理学方面有才华和经验的受训人员转移到独立职业生涯的初始阶段。密歇根大学临床神经科学家培训计划(UMCNTP)的目标是为面向疾病的神经科学研究的所有领域的独立研究生涯培养有才华的临床医生-神经科学家。UMCNTP是一项综合住院医师奖学金计划，旨在为成功申请最初的独立职业支持培养有才华的初出茅庐的临床医生-神经科学家。UMCNTP在经验丰富的高级调查人员的指导下，将富有成效的指导性研究经验与专注的教学和实践职业培训融为一体，为UMCNTP学员成功应用K08、K23、VA CDA或同等职业做好准备。UMCNTP在部门中拥有强大的导师名册。神经学、神经外科和病理学专业是一个培训项目，基于非常成功的临床医生-神经科学家培训经验，利用密歇根大学提供的优秀职业发展资源，并利用密歇根大学神经科学研究社区的巨大多样性和普遍优势。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is a marked gap between our ability to treat neurologic diseases and our rapidly increasing understanding of normal nervous system function, disease pathogenesis, and disease pathophysiology. Improving treatment of neurologic diseases requires considerably improved integration of burgeoning basic neuroscience with clinical practice across the translational spectrum from basic discovery through preclinical and clinical research to implementation. An obstacle to improved integration of disease-oriented neuroscience research activities and more efficient translation is a deficit of appropriately trained clinician-neuroscientists. American medical schools graduate significant numbers of physicians with substantial research experience, including MD/PhDs and individuals with significant experience with and formal training in clinical and policy research. The traditionl clinical training structure, however, impedes the ability of these talented and well trained individuals to efficiently initiate productive, independent research careers. We propose a residency- fellowship based training program integrating residency-fellowship based clinical training with mentored research training to move talented and experienced trainees in Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Neuropathology to the initial stage of an independent career. The goal of the University of Michigan Clinical Neuroscientist Training Program (UMCNTP) is prepare talented clinician-neuroscientists for independent research careers across the full spectrum of disease-oriented neuroscience research. The UMCNTP is an integrated residency- fellowship program to prepare talented fledgling clinician-neuroscientists for successful applications for initial independent career support. The UMCNTP melds productive mentored research experience under the guidance of experienced senior investigators with focused didactic and hands-on career training to prepare UMCNTP trainees for successful career development applications such as K08, K23, VA CDA, or equivalents. The UMCNTP features a strong roster of mentors in the Depts. of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Pathology, a training program based on highly successful prior experiences with training clinician-neuroscientists, utilizes excellent career development resources available at the University of Michigan, and draws on the great diversity and general excellence of the Neuroscience research community of the University of Michigan.