Research Training in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的主要目的是并将继续培训具有强大学术潜力的年轻医生，使他们有资格担任全职医学院过敏症专家和临床免疫学家。在完成他或她的培训后，这样的医生不仅应该能够指导过敏和免疫学的研究，而且应该能够教授其他医生对过敏和免疫疾病患者进行最佳护理所需的基本概念和临床专业知识。该计划将重点放在研究培训和获得基本的免疫学知识。这些目标将通过：1)基础免疫学和其他相关学科的正式课程，2)免疫学和分子生物学的常规研究培训，以及3)有限的临床暴露于各种过敏和免疫问题，以便获得评估这些疾病患者的经验。这些研究员在过敏和临床免疫学方面的培训将在儿科、医学和免疫学部门进行。该项目将由21名全职教师负责，他们要么是过敏症专家和临床免疫学家，风湿病学家，肺病学家或基础科学免疫学家；12人拥有医学博士学位；11人具有博士学位；其中8种获得了美国过敏和免疫学委员会的认证；其中3人获得临床和实验室免疫学认证。其中九名教员是儿科的成员；5人是医学系的成员；两名是病理学系的成员，一名是分子遗传学和微生物学的联合任命；五名是免疫学部门的主要成员，另外五名在该部门担任联合职务。该计划在过去30年里取得了良好的成绩。此申请要求每年为三名学员提供支持。研究培训将集中在目前正在各个教员的实验室或在医学中心的其他合作基础科学家的实验室进行的研究。实现该计划的目标将直接或间接地满足两项迫切的医疗需求：1)全国各地的医学院需要更多的过敏和临床免疫学的全职研究人员和教师；2)需要更多接受过过敏和免疫疾病患者特殊护理培训的医生。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary purpose of this program has been and will continue to be the training of young physicians with strong academic potential in such a way that they will qualify for full-time medical school faculty positions as allergists and clinical immunologists. Upon completion of his or her training, such a physician should be capable not only of directing research in allergy and immunology but of teaching other physicians the fundamental concepts and clinical expertise necessary for optimum care of patients with allergic and immunologic disorders. The program will place strong emphasis on research training and acquisition of basic immunologic knowledge. These goals will be accomplished through: 1) formal courses in basic immunology and other related disciplines, 2) precepted research training in immunology and molecular biology, and 3) limited clinical exposure to a variety of allergic and immunologic problems so that experience can be gained in the evaluation of patients with these disorders. The training of these fellows in allergy and clinical immunology will take place in the Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine and Immunology. The program will be conducted by twenty-one full-time faculty members who are either allergists and clinical immunologists, rheumatologists, pulmonologists or basic science immunologists; twelve hold M.D. degrees; eleven hold Ph.D. degrees; eight are certified by the American Board of Allergy and Immunology; and three are certified in Clinical and Laboratory Immunology. Nine of these faculty members are members of the Department of Pediatrics; five are members of the Department of Medicine; two are members of the Department of Pathology, one with a joint appointment in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology; and five are primary members of the Department of Immunology and five more hold joint appointments in that Department. The proposed program has a good record of accomplishment over the past 30 years. This application requests support for three trainees each year. The research training will center on research currently ongoing in the various faculty members' laboratories or in the laboratories of other collaborating basic scientists within the Medical Center. Fulfillment of the program's objective would directly or indirectly serve to meet two urgent medical needs: 1) the need for more full-time researchers and teachers of allergy and clinical immunology in medical schools throughout the country and 2) the need for more physicians trained in the specific care of patients with allergic and immunologic disorders.