MD/PhD Program in Medicine, the Social Sciences and Aging

 申请者描述(由申请者提供)：本申请旨在为芝加哥大学医学、社会科学和老龄领域的医学博士/博士项目提供支持。该计划建立在老龄化、社会科学、跨学科研究及其融入包括医学在内的专业领域的机构实力的基础上。该计划将培养医学、定量社会科学或相关专业(经济学、社会学、心理学、比较人类发展、科学、商业、公共政策和社会服务管理的概念和历史研究)以及老龄化研究的跨学科方法的医学/博士毕业生。老龄化研究方面的培训将包括老龄化的理论和流行病学、老年人的政策问题、卫生服务和结果研究方法以及对卫生保健机构的接触。该计划建立在加州大学25年来在培养社会科学博士/博士方面的国家领导地位的历史基础上。我们的培训记录一直很出色，在这些领域培养的MD/博士比任何其他机构都多，具有出色的安置和科学影响。我们的经验也教会了我们这种项目的潜在陷阱，包括招募能够满足要求的申请者的难度 我们医学院和博士项目的入学标准竞争异常激烈，而且很难确保受该项目支持的学员关注老龄化问题。为了应对这些挑战，我们提出了两条途径：1)普利兹克医学院(PSOM)途径，面向将在加州大学PSOM获得医学硕士学位和博士学位的学生；2)国家途径，面向可能在任何美国医学院获得医学博士学位和在加州大学获得博士学位的学生。机构支持将使我们平均每人录取1名实习生 每年投入到这些轨道中的每一个，每年总共2次。NIA支持的资格标准包括对社会科学和老龄化的研究表现出的承诺，以及本计划之外针对对老龄化不感兴趣的MD/博士学员的替代培训选项，这将有助于确保NIA仅为关注老龄化的学员提供资金支持。学员还将通过参加研讨会，向同事和项目负责人介绍他们的工作，以及由一个包括至少1名由NIA资助的研究人员和1名执业老年病医生的跨学科指导小组的密切监督，来加强对老龄化的关注。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks support for an MD/PhD Program in Medicine, the Social Sciences, and Aging at the University of Chicago (UC). The program builds on institutional strength in aging, the social sciences, and interdisciplinary research and its integration into the professions, including medicine. The proposed program will produce MD/PhD graduates trained in medicine, a quantitative social science or related profession (Economics, Sociology, Psychology, Comparative Human Development, Conceptual and Historical Studies in Science, Business, Public Policy, and Social Service Administration), and interdisciplinary approaches to aging research. Training in aging research will include theories and epidemiology of aging, policy issues for older adults, and health services and outcomes research methods, and exposure to health care institutions. The proposed program builds on UC's 25-year history of national leadership in training MD/PhDs in the social sciences. Our training record has been exceptional, training more MD/PhDs in these areas than any other institution with excellent placement and scientific impact. Our experience has also taught us the potential pitfalls of such programs, including the difficulty of recruiting applicants able to meet the exceptionally competitive admission standards of both our medical school and our PhD programs, and the difficulty of ensuring that trainees supported by the program focus on aging. To address these challenges, we propose an approach with 2 tracks: 1) The Pritzker School of Medicine (PSOM) Track for students who will receive their MD at UC's PSOM and their PhD at UC, and 2) the National Track for students who may receive their MD at any US medical school and their PhD at UC. Institutional support will allow us to matriculate an average of 1 trainee per year into each of these tracks, for a total of 2 per year. Eligibility criteria for NIA support tha include demonstrated commitment to research in the social sciences and aging, and alternative training options outside this program for MD/PhD trainees not interested in aging, will help ensure that NIA funds only support trainees focused on aging. Trainees' focus on aging will also be enhanced by their participation in seminars in which they present their work to their colleagues and program leaders and by their close supervision by an interdisciplinary mentorship team that includes at least 1 NIA-funded researcher and 1 practicing geriatrician.