Medical Student Training Program

医学生培训计划

• 批准号: 9307896
• 负责人: ROBERT LEVENSON
• 金额: $ 20.64万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV HERSHEY MED CTR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-01 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9307896
• 关键词: Medical Students; Training Programs

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests MSTP funding for the Penn State MD/PhD Program. Our program has a 20-year history of training outstanding students and providing them with the tools and experiences needed to become successful physician-scientists and leaders in academic medicine. Penn State has a talented and interactive faculty committed to biomedical research and MD/PhD career development. The students enrolled in our MD/PhD program are fully supported by the Dean of the College of Medicine during the medical school years and by faculty grants and individual fellowships during the graduate phase of the program. An MSTP award would leverage this institutional commitment, allowing us to increase the program from our current level of 6 students admitted per year to 8 students admitted per year. Over the past 10 years, Penn State has substantially improved the quality of the MD/PhD program through several targeted investments: (i) full autonomy of the MD/PhD program to select and admit qualified students; (ii) ~100% increase in institutional support, from less than $1 million to nearly $2 million per year; (iii) recruitment of >70 physician-scientist faculty members, including several departmental chairs and program directors, plus a recent initiative to recruit an additional 5-10 new physician-scientist faculty members; (iv) a 45% increase in the applicant pool size; (v) an increase in the number of matriculating students from 33 to 51; (vi) a doubling of the number of matriculated underrepresented minority students; and (vii) establishment of closer ties with our sister campus at University Park (UP) through the development of joint programs with Engineering Sciences & Mechanics and Molecular & Cellular Integrated Biosciences, as well as the appointment of an Associate Director of the MD/PhD program on the UP campus. The curriculum for the MD/PhD program is interdisciplinary and integrated. Students are exposed to both clinical and basic scientific activities longitudinally throughout their training, thus emphasizing the need to integrate biomedical research with patient care. MD/PhD-specific programmatic activities include a monthly seminar series where students present their own research and learn from visiting speakers; a bimonthly Clinical Research Conference where students learn to use clinical problems as a springboard for investigating the basic and translational sciences literature; a longitudinal Clinical Exposure Program, in which students hone their clinical skills by selecting a clinical preceptor and attending clinic at least one half day per month while pursuing their research; an annual retreat held on the UP campus; and several courses and seminars that specifically deal with translational biomedical research and MD/PhD career development. Most importantly, Program leaders use a very hands-on approach with our students. We take mentorship extremely seriously and we invest a significant amount of time meeting with and listening to our students to make their training experience at Penn State one that will not only be rigorous, but also provide a training path that fosters their career development, enabling them to excel in their future careers as physician-scientists.

 描述（由应用程序提供）：此应用程序要求为Penn State MD/PhD计划提供MSTP资金。我们的计划拥有20年的培训历史，并为他们提供了成为成功的身体科学家和学术医学领导者所需的工具和经验。宾夕法尼亚州立大学（Penn State）拥有一位才华横溢的互动教师，致力于生物医学研究和医学博士/博士职业发展。在医学院期间，参加我们的医学博士学位课程的学生得到了医学院院长的全面支持，并在该计划的研究生阶段得到了教师赠款和个人奖学金。 MSTP裁决将利用这一机构承诺，使我们能够将计划从目前的6名学生的水平增加到每年录取的8名学生。在过去的10年中，宾夕法尼亚州立大学通过几项有针对性的投资大大提高了MD/PhD计划的质量：（i）MD/PhD计划的全部自主权，以选择和招收合格的学生； （ii）〜机构支持增加了100％，从每年不到100万美元增加到近200万美元； （iii）招募> 70名身体科学家的教职员工，包括几位部门主席和计划主任，以及最近的一项倡议，旨在招募另外5-10名新的身体科学家教职员工； （iv）适用的池尺寸增加了45％； （v）成熟学生数量从33岁增加到51； （vi）成熟人数不足的少数族裔学生的数量增加了一倍； （vii）通过与工程科学与力学与分子和蜂窝综合生物科学的联合计划以及任命MD/PHD计划的副主任，在UP校园内建立了与我们在大学公园（UP）建立更紧密的联系。 MD/PHD课程的课程是跨学科的，并集成了。在整个培训过程中，学生都会纵向接受临床和基础科学活动，从而强调将生物医学研究与患者护理相结合。医学博士/博士学位特定的程序化活动包括一个每月的节目系列，学生会在其中展示自己的研究并从访客演讲者那里学习；一个临床研究会议，学生学会使用临床问题作为调查基础和翻译科学文献的跳板；纵向临床暴露计划，学生通过选择一个 在进行研究时，每月至少每月至少要参加诊所；在UP校园举行的年度务虚会；以及专门针对翻译生物医学研究和医学博士/博士职业发展的几门课程和半手。最重要的是，计划负责人对我们的学生采用非常动手的方法。我们非常重视心​​态，我们花费大量时间会议并倾听我们的学生在宾夕法尼亚州立大学进行培训经验，这不仅会成为 严格的，但也提供了一条培训道路，可以促进他们的职业发展，使他们能够以身体科学家的身份在未来的职业中表现出色。