UW Radiological Sciences Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：该培训计划准备博士前研究生和博士后研究人员的职业生涯中的应用物理学的医学诊断和治疗癌症。现有的研究专业包括广泛的物理学领域，适用于疾病诊断，患者特定治疗和治疗效果评估，以及应用于癌症的基础物理学研究。医学物理学，放射学，人类肿瘤学（放射肿瘤学），肿瘤学，工程物理学和生物医学工程部门的导师和合作者与其他临床和基础科学研究人员保持广泛的研究合作。转化，团队驱动的研究包括放射治疗和放射生物学与肿瘤学系，传统的X射线，数字，CT，MRI，超声和PET成像与放射学系，和辐射物理与物理和核工程和人类肿瘤学系。学员是这些研究项目的亲密参与者，作为合作者，发表联合研究文章，并在校外资助的赠款和合同中担任调查员。广泛的教师联系提供领导和监督。除了研究活动和未成年人的学科要求，博士前实习生作为医学物理学的研究生需要至少27学分的医学物理学培训支持，并面向他们的研究专业化。鼓励博士后学员通过旁听适当的课程来拓宽和深化他们的学术培训。博士前和博士后学员都必须参加或旁听额外的癌症特定课程，必须参加相关的大型演讲，必须参加关于手稿写作和资助写作的密集研讨会。受训人员举办研讨会，参加座谈会，在地方，国家和国际会议上介绍研究成果，并共同撰写文章和报告。年度培训补助金研讨会为学员提供了额外的机会，向医学物理和合作教师展示研究成果。通过这种方式，该计划的学员已经做好充分准备，可以在物理学应用于癌症预防，诊断和治疗方面担任研究人员和学者的领导职务。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This training program prepares predoctoral graduate students and postdoctoral researchers for careers in the application of physics to the medical diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Available research specializations encompass broad areas of physics as applied to disease diagnosis, patient-specific treatment and assessment of treatment efficacy, and basic physics research applied to cancer. Mentors and collaborators in the Departments of Medical Physics, Radiology, Human Oncology (Radiation Oncology), Oncology, Engineering Physics, and Biomedical Engineering maintain a broad spectrum of research collaborations with other clinical and basic science researchers. Translational, team-driven research includes radiation therapy and radiation biology with the Department of Oncology, traditional x-ray, digital, CT, MRI, ultrasound, and PET imaging with the Department of Radiology, and radiation physics with the Departments of Physics and Nuclear Engineering and Human Oncology. Trainees are intimate participants in these research programs as collaborators, publishing joint research articles, and performing as investigators in extramurally funded grants and contracts. Extensive faculty contact provides leadership and supervision. Beyond research activities and minor subject requirements, predoctoral trainees as graduate students in Medical Physics take at least twenty-seven credits supportive of medical physics training and oriented towards their research specialization. Postdoctoral trainees are encouraged to broaden and deepen their academic training by auditing appropriate courses. Both predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees must take or audit additional cancer-specific courses, must attend relevant grand round presentations, and must participate in intensive workshops on manuscript writing and grant writing. Trainees give seminars, attend colloquia, present research results at local, national, and international meetings, and co-author articles and reports. An annual Training Grant Symposium provides additional opportunity for trainees to present research results to the Medical Physics and collaborating faculty. In this way trainees in this program are well prepared to assume leadership positions as researchers and academicians in the application of physics to cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.