Training Program for the Next Generation of Oral Health Researches (NextGen)

人们经常说，我们国家面临的口腔健康问题不仅限于原发病或 发育病理，但复杂和多因素，包括遗传，社会，文化，行为 以及环境因素。为了有效地管理口腔健康问题，我们需要解决多因素 这些情况的性质。我们的假设是，要全面解决这些口头问题 健康需求要求个人不仅能够推进科学和发现过程，而且 世卫组织还可以领导多学科团队并成为其有效成员。解决儿童的口述需求 国家将需要跨学科团队，一个受过独特训练的科学家团队，他们不仅拥有一家公司 了解复杂的口腔、牙科和颅面疾病的多因素成分，但世卫组织 也可以是有效的领导者或跨学科团队的成员。显然，独奏或基于塔楼的时代 科学计划已经通过，高效率的研究涉及临床医生和科学家团队。 这项拟议的培训计划的目的是培养一批成功的、独立的、基本的、 临床和转化性口腔健康研究学者，他们可以作为互动科学家解决 国家S的医疗保健需要牙科、口腔和颅面研究。按照设计，我们的计划包含 全方位的基础、翻译和临床研究，包括人类的基本机制 疾病、治疗干预、临床试验、口腔流行病学、卫生服务研究和卫生政策。 我们的目标是培养一支高度互动的科学家新干部，他们可以在 学术牙科和研究机构。NextGen计划包括授予三个博士学位 口腔生物学、卫生政策和管理或口腔流行病学的课程和培训；一个硕士学位 为牙科医生提供临床研究课程和培训；为个人提供博士后奖学金 寻求口腔生物学、卫生政策/管理或口腔流行病学方面的高级研究机会 北卡罗来纳大学下一代培训计划的目标是： 1.培养一支能够在多学科背景下开展研究的口腔健康科学家队伍 招募高素质的实习生加入我们提议的计划的五个组成部分，从而 博士和硕士学位或博士后研究奖学金。 2.扩大我们目前针对代表性不足的少数群体和妇女的招聘努力，并 纳入职业发展部分，旨在留住这些研究人员在学术领域 设置。 3.为学员提供必要的指导性和体验式培训，使每个人都能发展 并应用各种尖端技术的技能，如功能基因组学， 生物信息学和系统生物学，目的是严格的生物医学、行为和 临床研究。 4.提供正式的职业发展技能培训机会，包括试验性培训 设计、生物统计和数据分析、论文和资助撰写、临床试验协调 和管理、数据库管理、负责任的研究行为和道德规范。 5.提供正式和有经验的领导力培训机会(冲突解决、团队 管理和文化能力)，使受训人员能够发挥领导作用并有效 研究团队成员，整合了从分子到 人口。 6.促进T90受训人员向个人研究培训奖或其他机制过渡 研究、培训、支持和协助他们的职业发展。

It is often stated that the oral health problems facing our nation extend beyond primary disease or developmental pathologies, but are complex and multi-factorial to include genetic, social, cultural, behavioral and environmental factors. In order to effectively manage oral health problems we need to address the multifactorial nature of these conditions. It is our hypothesis that to comprehensively addressing these oral health needs requires individuals who can not only advance the science and discovery processes, but who can also lead and be effective members of multidisciplinary teams. Addressing the oral needs of the nation will require interdisciplinary teams a uniquely trained group of scientists who not only have a firm understanding of the multi-factorial components of the complex oral, dental and craniofacial diseases, but who can also be effective leaders or members of interdisciplinary teams. Clearly, the era of solo or tower-based science programs has passed and highly effective research involves teams of clinicians and scientists. The purpose of this proposed training program is to develop a cohort of successful, independent, basic, clinical and translational Oral Health Research Scholars who can function as interactive scientists to address the nation¿s healthcare needs in dental, oral and craniofacial research. As designed, our program embraces the full spectrum of basic, translational and clinical research including fundamental mechanisms of human disease, therapeutic intervention, clinical trials, oral epidemiology, health services research and health policy. Our goal is to create a new cadre of highly interactive scientists who can serve as research leaders in academic dentistry and research institutions. The NextGen program encompasses three Ph.D. degree granting curricula and training in Oral Biology; Health Policy and Management, or Oral Epidemiology; one M.S. degree granting curriculum and training for Dentists in Clinical Research; and a postdoctoral fellowship for individuals seeking advanced research opportunities in Oral Biology, Health Policy/Management, or Oral Epidemiology The objectives of the UNC NextGen Training Program are to: 1. Train a cadre of oral health scientists able to conduct research in a multidisciplinary setting by recruiting high quality trainees into the five components of our proposed program leading to Ph.D. and M.S. degrees or postdoctoral research fellowship. 2. Expand our current recruitment efforts targeting under-represented minorities and women and incorporate career development components designed to retain these researchers in academic settings. 3. Provide trainees with the necessary didactic and experiential training so that each can develop and apply skills in various cutting edge technologies, such as functional genomics, bioinformatics, and systems biology, for the purpose of rigorous biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research. 4. Provide opportunities for formal training in career development skills that include experimental design, biostatistics and data analysis, manuscript and grant writing, clinical trials coordination and management, data base management, responsible conduct of research, and ethics. 5. Provide opportunities for formal and experiential leadership training (conflict resolution, team management, and cultural competency), permitting trainees to function as leaders and effective members of research teams that integrate multidisciplinary activities ranging from molecules to populations. 6. Facilitate transition of T90 trainees to individual research training awards or other mechanisms of research training support and assist them in career development.