Integrated Graduate Training Program in Neuroscience, UTHSCSA

描述(由申请人提供)：德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥健康科学中心神经科学综合研究生课程(UTHSCSA)提供从分子、细胞和神经化学到系统、行为和临床神经科学等一系列神经科学研究领域和方法的多样化培训。在UTHSCSA的综合多学科研究生项目(IMGP)中，有34名培训教师来自神经科学轨道的指导教师。这项神经科学培训计划为来自基础生物科学，包括生物学、生物化学、分子生物学、心理学和神经科学的不同背景的学生提供了一门针对个人需求和兴趣的学习课程。教育工作者和研究人员的互动和合作社区创造了一个具有挑战性和支持性的环境，在这个环境中，我们的学生可以发展成为成功的神经科学家。学生们申请并进入一个统一的“伞形”研究生项目，即IMGP，其中有10个主题定义的“轨道”，神经科学是其中之一，横跨大学内的各个系和学院。因此，在IMGP学习的第一年，学生们选择了一门共同的生物医学核心课程，并进行了一系列的实验室轮换。在春季，他们开始区别对待，并根据自己感兴趣的领域参加课程，这是我们中国科学院神经科学的课程。然后，他们选择一位导师和一条路线，并开始他们的重点培训。在第二年的学习中，我们为神经科学学生提供了丰富的教学课程、密集的实验室经验、专业发展机会(写作和口头演示)、期刊俱乐部、研讨会、参与相关临床活动的机会，以及旨在提高他们专业发展和未来成功的其他几项丰富活动。该机构为第一年的学生提供资助。因此，我们要求在第二年每年为3名学生提供资金，每人仅一年，在此期间，他们专注于神经科学课程工作，加强实验室研究，以确定论文项目，并为第二年结束时的资格考试做准备，之后他们进入博士候选人资格并开始论文研究。这些空位中的一个或多个可用于在神经科学项目研究生培训的同等阶段支持医学博士研究生(S)。介绍了招聘战略，包括多样性招聘战略和负责任的研究行为培训战略。总而言之，自10年前成立以来，UTHSCSA的神经科学课程已经发展成为一个成熟而有效的课程，是研究生院最受欢迎的课程之一，拥有富有成效和敬业精神的培训教师，强大的课程和运作良好的管理结构。如果得到资助，这笔基础广泛的早期培训赠款 这不仅将促进我们的进一步发展和增长，还将使我们有机会通过继续我们的项目和我们的学生的前进和向上的轨道，提供实质性的投资回报。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Integrated Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) provides diverse training in a range of neuroscientific research areas and approaches, from molecular, cellular, and neurochemical to systems, behavioral and clinical neuroscience. There are 34 training faculty drawn from the mentoring faculty in the Neuroscience Track in the Integrated Multidisciplinary Graduate Program (IMGP) at UTHSCSA. This Neuroscience Training Program offers a course of study tailored to the individual needs and interests of students who come to us from a variety of backgrounds in the basic biological sciences, including biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, psychology and neuroscience. An interactive and collegial community of educators and researchers creates a challenging yet supportive environment within which our students can develop into successful neuroscientists. Students apply to and enter a single integrated "umbrella" graduate program, the IMGP, within which there are 10 thematically- defined "tracks", of which Neuroscience is one, that cut across departments and schools within the university. Thus, in their first year of study in the IMGP, students take a common core course in Biomedical Sciences and conduct a series of lab rotations. In the spring, they begin to differentiate and take courses specific to their area of interest, in our cas Neuroscience. They then select a mentor and a track, and begin their focused training. In the second year of study, we offer the Neuroscience students a rich curriculum of didactic courses, intensive laboratory experience, opportunities for professional development (writing and oral presentation), journal clubs, seminars, opportunities to engage in relevant clinical activities, an several other enrichment activities designed to enhance their professional development and future success. The institution supports the students in the first year. Thus, we are requesting funds for 3 students per year, for only one year each, in the second year of study, during which they focus on Neuroscience course work, intensify their laboratory research toward identifying a dissertation project, and prepare for their qualifying exam at the end of this second year, after which they enter doctoral candidacy and begin their dissertation research. One or more of these slots may be used to support MD/PhD student(s) at the equivalent stage of the graduate component of their training in the Neuroscience program. Strategies are described for recruitment, including recruitment for diversity, and for training in the responsible conduct of research. In sum, since its inception just 10 years ago, the Neuroscience Program at the UTHSCSA has emerged into a mature and effective program, one of the most popular in the Graduate School, with a productive and dedicated training faculty, a robust curriculum, and a well-functioning administrative structure. If funded, this broadly-based early-stage training grant will not only facilitate our further development and growth, it will also allow us the opportunity o offer a substantive return on that investment, by continuing on the forward and upward trajectory of both our program and our students.