Endocrinology-Reproductive Physiology Training Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：内分泌与生殖生理学（ERP）研究生培训项目是一个跨学科的内分泌项目，主要关注生殖生物学和生理学，与孕产妇和儿童健康、宫内规划和成人发病疾病的起源直接相关。这已经通过从分子生物学到比较动物和越来越多的人类临床生理学的多学科方法实现。在第二个融资周期中，我们继续在培训计划的进一步发展方面取得实质性进展，特别是在翻译多学科培训环境，强大的专业发展和非常成功的少数民族招聘和培训计划方面。我们所有的学员在出版和实习方面都取得了优异的成绩。ERP培训环境强调多学科、跨学科团队的建设，团队成员由医学博士和博士组成。为此，我们最近加入了在ERP中创建的新开发的学位奖学金项目中攻读研究生学位的医学博士研究员。虽然医学博士候选人不是T32博士预科申请的候选人，但我们希望审稿人意识到它的存在。我们相信，所有医学博士和博士学员都能从手头研究项目的集体“转化对话”中受益，这种对话促进了未来转化工作的理论和实践模型的发展。最终的结果是一个更强大、更有活力的培训环境，不断招聘更多的教师，让所有人都能享受。在对研究人员的支持减少，对临床医生的需求增加的情况下，如果我们要在未来保持跨学科转化研究团队成员的储备，这种混合培训环境是非常必要的。最后，我们在招收和毕业多元化学生方面取得了相当大的成功。虽然提案中详细介绍了我们多方面方法的细节，但这已经取得了巨大的成功，我们拥有最高水平的URM参与和毕业成功，我们可以理解为这一点感到自豪。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology (ERP) Graduate Training Program is an interdisciplinary endocrine program with a major focus on reproductive biology and physiology, with direct relevance to maternal and child health as well as intrauterine programming and the origins of adult onset disease. This has been achieved using multidisciplinary approaches from molecular biology to comparative animal and increasingly human clinical physiology. In this second funding cycle we continue to make substantial progress in the further development of our training program, particularly with regard to a translational multidisciplinary training environment, strong professional development and a highly successful minority recruitment and training program. The outcomes for all of our Trainees have been outstanding both in publications and placement. The ERP training environment strongly emphasizes the building of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams, the members of which are both MD and PhD. To that end we have recently been joined by MD fellows undergoing graduate degree study in a newly developed Degree Fellowship Track created within ERP. While MD candidates are not candidates for support under this T32 Predoctoral application, we wish the reviewers to be aware of its existence. We believe all MD and PhD trainees benefit from a collective 'translational dialogue' of the research projects in hand and such a dialogue promotes the development of both theoretical and practical models for translational work in the future. The end result is a stronger, more vibrant training environment with the continuing recruitment of additional faculty, for all to enjoy. This blended training environment is very much needed if we are to maintain a future pool of interdisciplinary translational research team members at a time of otherwise reduced support for research faculty and increasing demands on clinicians to be in the clinics. Finally we have achieved considerable success in recruiting and graduating students of diversity. While the details of our multifaceted approach are detailed in the proposal, this has been an outstanding success and we have one of the highest levels of URM participation and indeed graduation success, of which we are understandably proud.