Training Program in Gastrointestinal Epidemiology

描述(由申请者提供)：我们的胃肠道流行病学培训计划的目的是培养受过临床研究设计和执行培训的学术胃肠病专家。这是我们独特的重点计划的第二次竞争性续签申请，这是美国仅有的三个GI流行病学培训计划之一。通过这种培训，这些GI研究员成为成功竞争外部资金的初级教员。自2002年成立以来，已有10名学员完成了这项计划：80%(8/10)的学员接受了学术医学中心的终身教职，70%的学员成功申请了基础或联邦职业发展奖。(我们最新的实习生将参加终身教职的面试。)请求为2名博士后实习生(即胃肠病研究员)提供支助 每个博士后实习生都要完成两年的培训。GI流行病学培训计划的目标是：(A)完成侧重于临床研究设计和执行的理学硕士学位；(B)完成重点GI流行病学研讨会系列和全面的临床流行病学/医疗保健政策研讨会系列；(C)在包括方法学专家(如流行病学家)和内容专家(如胃肠病专家)在内的导师团队的指导下，成功设计、执行和发表多个临床研究项目；以及(D)准备职业发展奖励申请，以提供过渡性资金，促进在学术医学和研究领域的独立职业生涯。每个受训人员专注于一个特定的问题(例如，IL-28b多态对丙型肝炎治疗的影响)，并完成三个项目：(A)荟萃分析；(B)回溯性数据库研究；以及(C)前瞻性试验设计。这些项目为职业发展奖赠款申请提供了基础和初步数据。密歇根大学的环境拥有来自多个中心和研究机构的大量资源。这些资源包括罗伯特·伍德·约翰逊基金会临床学者计划、退伍军人管理局临床管理研究中心(退伍军人事务部医疗服务研究与开发卓越中心)和密歇根临床与健康研究所(MICHR)。我们的多学科教员包括来自普通内科和胃肠病学部的专家生物统计学家、流行病学家和结果研究人员。大多数教员为他们正在进行的研究提供联邦资助，这些教员提供广泛的研究专业知识，具有多层次的既定合作和多年指导学员的经验。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of our Training Program in GI Epidemiology is to develop academic gastroenterologists trained in the design and execution of clinical research. This is the second competitive renewal application of our uniquely-focused program, which is one of only three GI Epidemiology Training Programs in the US. With this training, these GI fellows become junior faculty who successfully compete for external funding. Since inception in 2002, 10 trainees have completed this program: 80% (8/10) accepted tenure-track positions at academic medical centers and 70% successfully applied for foundation or federal career development awards. (Our most recent trainee will be interviewing for a tenure-track position.) Support is requested for 2 post-doctoral trainees (i.e., gastroenterology fellows) with each post-doctoral trainee completing two years of training. The goals of the Training Program in GI Epidemiology are: (a) Completion of a MSc degree focused on the design and execution of clinical research; (b) Completion of a focused GI Epidemiology seminar series and a comprehensive clinical epidemiology/health care policy seminar series; (c) Successful design, execution, and publication of multiple clinical research projects under the guidance of a team of mentors, including methodology experts (e.g., epidemiologists) and content experts (e.g., gastroenterologists); and, (d) Preparation of a career development award grant application to provide transitional funding and facilitate an independent career in academic medicine and research. Each trainee focuses on a specific issue (e.g., impact of IL-28b polymorphism on treatment of HCV) and completes three projects: (a) a meta-analysis; (b) a retrospective database study; and, (c) design of a prospective trial. These projects provide the foundation and preliminary data for the career development award grant application. The environment at the University of Michigan has vast resources from multiple centers and research institutes. These resources include the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Ann Arbor VA Center for Clinical Management Research (VA Center of Excellence for Health Services Research & Development), and the Michigan Institute of Clinical & Health Research (MICHR). Our multi-disciplinary faculty includes expert biostatisticians, epidemiologists, and outcomes researchers from the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. Most faculty are federally funded for their on-going research, and these faculty offer a broad spectrum of research expertise with multiple levels of established collaboration and many years of experience mentoring trainees.