Men's Reproductive Health Research at the University of Washington

描述(由申请人提供)：已完成住院医师或研究员资格的医生通常都是优秀的临床医生，但通常没有做好充分的准备来满足学术医学职业的研究要求。该提案描述了一项针对华盛顿大学儿科医生、内科医生、内分泌学家和/或泌尿科医生的男性生殖健康研究职业发展计划的计划。该计划的主要目标是提供研究培训，使年轻医生能够建立研究生涯，并最终成为独立的调查人员。建议的主要培训形式是与成功的研究人员(临床、转换或基础)进行为期两到五年的指导经验。在此期间，两位学者将把大部分时间用于研究项目，从而获得独立并担任教职所需的知识和技能。此外，在每个学者的研究培训的最初几年，将根据学者的兴趣提供正式的课程作业。这一建议的华盛顿大学男性生殖健康研究计划有12名导师，他们拥有丰富的研究经验和资金，共同代表了与男性生殖健康直接相关的学科领域的强大临床和基础科学专业知识。这是 这是一项多学科的建议，因为导师拥有他们在医学、泌尿外科、流行病学、药理学、生理学和生物物理学以及妇产科的主要专业知识和任命。每一位被提名的导师都有卓越的研究记录和培训年轻调查人员的有据可查的经验。内科和泌尿外科将努力招募外部学者，他们有相对较大的住院医师、研究员和初级教职员工，渴望竞争两个拟议的学者奖。华盛顿大学医学和泌尿学系以及医学院准备做出重大的资源和资金承诺，以支持这个拟议的研究中心。从很多方面来看，华盛顿大学都是开展男性生殖健康职业发展项目的理想场所。该大学在男性生殖研究方面拥有丰富的资源和经验，可以为学者提供许多机会开始成功的研究生涯，这将有助于促进在与男性生殖健康相关的问题上取得新的治疗突破。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Physicians who have completed a residency and perhaps a fellowship are usually superb clinicians, but generally are not well prepared to meet the research requirements of a career in academic medicine. This proposal describes a plan for a Research Career Development Program in men's reproductive health for pediatricians, internists, endocrinologists and/or urologists at the University of Washington. The major goal of this program is to provide the research training to enable young physicians to establish research careers and eventually become independent investigators. The principal training format proposed is a mentored experience with a successful investigator (clinical, translational or basic) for two to five years. During this time, each of the two scholars will devote most of his/he time to research projects, whereby he/she acquires the knowledge and skills to become independent and assume a faculty position. In addition, in the initial years of each scholar's research training, formal coursework will be provided, as appropriate for the scholar's interests. This proposed UW Male Reproductive Health Research Program has twelve mentors with extensive research experience and funding that collectively represent both strong clinical and basic science expertise in subject areas that directly relate to men's reproductive health. This is a multidisciplinary proposal in that the mentors have their primary expertise and appointments in the Departments of Medicine, Urology, Epidemiology, Pharmacology, Physiology and Biophysics and Obstetrics and Gynecology. Each proposed mentor has a record of excellence in research and documented experience in training young investigators. The Departments of Medicine and Urology will diligently recruit outside scholars, and they have a relatively large pool of residents, fellows, and junior faculty eager to compete for the two proposed scholar awards. The Medicine and Urology departments and the School of Medicine at the University of Washington are prepared to make major commitments of resources and funding to support this proposed research center. In many ways, the University of Washington is the ideal location for a career development program in male reproductive health. The University has a wealth of resources and experience in male reproductive research, and can provide many opportunities for scholars to embark on successful research careers, which will serve to foster new therapeutic breakthroughs in issues relevant to male reproductive health.