Research Training in Alimentary Tract Surgery

 描述(申请人提供)：在过去的十年里，胃肠外科发生的快速变化为创造新知识创造了一个独特的机会，但我们的培训计划并没有适当地适应这种不断变化的现实。这个T32计划的目的是通过广泛关注可应用于胃肠道外科疾病的各种研究领域来培训下一代学术胃肠外科医生。哈佛医学院的巨大资源和人才为我们未来的学术胃肠外科医生的研究培训创造了一个独特的环境。该计划于1997年作为布里格姆妇女医院和前贝丝以色列医院外科部门之间的合作而首次资助，现已扩大到包括来自哈佛医学院所有四个主要教学医院附属机构(CH、BIDMC、BWH和MGH)的研究人员。显然，促进和维持高质量的胃肠道外科研究的一个主要障碍是“竖井”效应，即来自不同学科的研究人员作为独立实体发挥作用，很少或根本没有互动。据介绍，这一T32计划由三个研究轨道组成：(1)基础科学，(2)临床研究/成果，(3)外科技术/创新。该计划旨在将来自这三个不同研究学科的外科医生和科学家聚集在一起，建立一个独特的合作和互动环境。培训计划执行委员会(Hodin、Goldstein、Tseng、Tavakkoli和Puder)将监督受训人员的选择、导师的指定、正式课程的规定以及参与教授伦理学和负责任的研究行为的计划。该计划向外科住院医生或经认可的美国居住计划研究员开放，并采取了积极的程序，向属于代表性不足的少数群体的个人寻求申请。因此，该T32计划旨在提供密集的、协调的研究培训，目的是为个人在消化道外科领域成为独立资助的研究人员做准备。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The rapid changes that have occurred in GI surgery over the past decade have created a unique opportunity for the creation of new knowledge, and yet our training programs have not appropriately adapted to this changing reality. This T32 Program has been designed to train the next generation of academic GI surgeons through a broad focus on the various investigative fields that can be applied to GI surgical disease. The enormous resources and talented personnel in the Harvard Medical School community have been leveraged to create a unique environment for the research training of our future academic GI surgeons. First funded in 1997 as a collaboration between the Departments of Surgery at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the former Beth Israel Hospital, this program has been expanded to include investigators from all four major teaching hospital affiliates of Harvard Medical School (CH, BIDMC, BWH, MGH). It is clear that a major impediment to promoting and maintaining high quality GI surgical research has been the "silo" effect, whereby investigators from various disciplines function as independent entities with little or no interaction. Accordingl, this T32 program is comprised of three research tracks: (1) Basic Science, (2) Clinical Research/Outcomes and (3) Surgical Technology/lnnovation. The Program has been designed to bring surgeon-scientists together from these three different investigative disciplines, establishing a unique environment for collaboration and interaction. The Training Program Executive Committee (Hodin, Goldstein, Tseng, Tavakkoli, and Puder) will oversee the selection of trainees, designation of preceptors, prescription of formal coursework, and participation in programs teaching ethics and the responsible conduct in research. The Program is open to surgical residents or fellows in accredited U.S. Residency Programs and a pro-active process is in place to seek applications from individuals belonging to under-represented minority groups. This T32 Program is therefore designed to provide intensive, coordinated research training with the goal of preparing individuals to become independently funded investigators in the field of alimentary tract surgery.