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超出了原发性疾病， 发展病理学，但复杂和多因素，包括遗传，社会，文化，行为 和环境因素。为了有效地管理口腔健康问题，我们需要解决多因素 这些条件的性质。我们的假设是，为了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， 他们还可以领导多学科小组并成为其有效成员。满足老年人的口腔需求 一个国家将需要跨学科的团队，一群受过独特训练的科学家，他们不仅有一个公司， 了解复杂的口腔，牙齿和颅面疾病的多因素组成部分，但谁 也可以成为跨学科团队的有效领导者或成员。很明显，单人或塔式建筑的时代 科学计划已经通过，高效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发展一批成功的，独立的，基本的， 临床和翻译口腔健康研究学者谁可以作为互动的科学家，以解决 国家在牙科、口腔和颅面研究方面的医疗保健需求。按照设计，我们的计划包括 基础，转化和临床研究的全方位，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。 我们的目标是创造一个高度互动的科学家谁可以作为研究领导者在新的干部 学术牙科和研究机构。NextGen计划包括三个博士学位。学位授予 口腔生物学课程和培训;卫生政策和管理，或口腔流行病学;一个MS。程度 为临床研究牙医提供课程和培训;并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的高级研究机会 该公司NextGen培训计划的目标是： 1.培养一批能够在多学科环境中进行研究的口腔健康科学家， 招募高素质的受训人员进入我们提出的计划的五个组成部分， 博士和史密斯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民族和妇女的招聘工作， 纳入旨在留住这些研究人员的职业发展组成部分， 设置. 3.为学员提供必要的教学和经验培训，使每个人都能发展 并应用各种尖端技术，如功能基因组学， 生物信息学和系统生物学，用于严格的生物医学，行为， 临床研究 4.提供职业发展技能的正式培训机会，包括实验性的 设计、生物统计学和数据分析、手稿和基金撰写、临床试验协调 管理、数据库管理、负责任的研究行为和道德。 5.提供正式和体验式领导力培训的机会（冲突解决、团队 管理和文化能力），使受训者能够发挥领导作用， 研究团队的成员，整合多学科的活动，从分子， 人口数量。 6.促进T90学员过渡到个人研究培训奖励或其他机制 研究培训支持和帮助他们的职业发展。

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.