Clinical Neuroengineering Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：本临床神经工程培训计划(CNTP)的目标是培训一批工程师和科学家，采用跨学科的方法，将生物医学工程的传统领域与物理科学、神经科学和临床实践联系起来。我们设计CNTP的前提是，跨学科研究是团队或个人的一种研究模式，它整合了来自两个或更多学科的信息、数据、技术、工具、观点、概念和/或理论，以促进基本理解或解决其解决方案超出单一学科范围的问题。从事跨学科研究的学生也从毕业论文委员会所代表的三个学科的导师的指导下受益匪浅。联合辅导使学生能够与不同领域的研究人员建立直接的关系，同时综合培训和建议，为他们未来的跨学科研究目标形成自己的技能和经验。我们使CNTP成为一个成功的培训计划的目标之一是，CNTP学员进行的研究将对多个领域或学科产生影响，并产生反馈并加强学科研究的结果。它还将培养学生在多个学科中扩大研究词汇量和能力，并增强对复杂问题内在相互联系的理解。顾名思义，临床神经工程学是我们项目的基础和动力。对临床的重视是我们项目所有方面的共同纽带：我们培训师的研究旨在回答临床问题；我们为学员制定的正式课程计划包括在医院的临床轮换、一门医学伦理学课程和另一门公共政策课程。这种对临床医学的关注在研究生教育中几乎是普遍缺失的。我们相信，这使我们的项目与国内任何其他部门或培训项目截然不同，并使我们学员的教育体验真正跨学科。 公共卫生相关性：未来十年，医学科学将迎来前所未有的机遇和挑战。生物学知识和理解正在以指数速度增长，特别是在人类疾病方面。与此同时，美国公民对被认为缺乏直接造福人类的翻译的不满情绪日益高涨。此外，由于卫生保健服务的显著变化，提供新的治疗方法正变得越来越成问题。保险公司和政府监管机构坚持使用新的、非常不同的方式来证明疗效，特别是在涉及生活质量和成本效益的情况下。事实上，循证医学已经成为卫生保健管理人员的口头禅，生物医学工程师不仅必须理解，而且必须掌握。因此，科学家和工程师必须进行操作的背景已经大大扩展，并进入了传统课程通常不涉及的领域。相反，由工程师、医生、临床医生和科学家组成的跨学科团队将是未来医学成功的关键。这意味着未来的科学家或工程师必须对许多学科有足够的了解。工程师或科学家必须能够在多维环境中解决问题。他们必须能够协调不同的学科；认识到在哪里以及何时每个单独的学科是适当的和需要的。这项临床神经工程培训计划(CNTP)的目标是用跨学科的方法培训一批工程师和科学家，将生物医学工程的传统领域与物理科学、神经科学和临床实践联系起来。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this Clinical Neuroengineering Training Program (CNTP) is to train a cohort of engineers and scientists with an interdisciplinary approach linking the traditional areas of biomedical engineering and physical science, neuroscience, and clinical practice. We have designed the CNTP around the premise that interdisciplinary research is a mode of research by teams or individuals that integrates information, data, techniques, tools, perspectives, concepts, and/or theories from two or more disciplines to advance fundamental understanding or to solve problems whose solutions are beyond the scope of a single discipline. Students conducting interdisciplinary research also benefit greatly from the guidance of mentors in the three disciplines represented on their dissertation committees. Co-mentoring allows students to have direct relationships with researchers in the different fields while synthesizing the training and advice to form their own skills and experiences for their future interdisciplinary research goals. One of our objectives in making the CNTP a successful training program is that the research conducted by CNTP trainees will have an impact on multiple fields or disciplines, and produce results that feed back into and enhance disciplinary research. It will also create students with an expanded research vocabulary and abilities in more than one discipline, and with an enhanced understanding of the interconnectedness inherent in complex problems. As the name, Clinical Neuroengineering implies, the foundation and driving force of our program is the Clinic. This emphasis on the Clinic is the common thread that ties together all aspects of our program: The research of our trainers is designed to answer clinical questions; the formal course plan for our trainees includes clinical rotations in the hospital, a course in medical ethics and another in public policy. This focus on clinical medicine is almost universally absent in graduate education. We believe this makes our Program distinctly different from any other department or training program in the country, and makes the educational experience for our trainees truly interdisciplinary. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The next decade will see unprecedented opportunities as well as challenges for medical science. Biological knowledge and understanding is increasing at an exponential rate particularly as to human disease. At the same time, there is growing dissatisfaction on the part of U.S. citizens for what is perceived as lack of translation to direct human benefit. Further, delivering new treatments is becoming increasingly problematic because of the remarkable changes in health-care delivery. Insurers and government regulators are insisting on new and very different means of demonstrating efficacy, particularly as it relates to quality of life and cost-effectiveness. Indeed, Evidence Based Medicine has become a mantra of health care administrators and one that biomedical engineers must not only understand but also master. Consequently, the context in which the scientist and engineer must operate has expanded greatly and into areas not typically addressed by traditional curricula. Rather, interdisciplinary teams of engineers, physicians, clinicians, and scientists will be critical to future medical successes. This means that the scientist or engineer of the future must have more than a passing acquaintance with many disciplines. The engineer or scientist must be able to problem solve in a multi-dimensional context. They must be able to orchestrate different disciplines; recognizing where and when each individual discipline is appropriate and needed. The goal of this Clinical Neuroengineering Training Program (CNTP) is to train a cohort of engineers and scientists with an interdisciplinary approach linking the traditional areas of biomedical engineering and physical science, neuroscience, and clinical practice.