Training in Investigative Dermatology

 描述（由申请人提供）：耶鲁大学皮肤科系的T32竞争性续期申请旨在继续其培养未来皮肤科学术领导者的良好记录。在过去十年中，由该T32计划支持的24名学员中，有18名（75%）目前在学术机构担任全职职位，其中10名正在进行实质性的基础和/或临床研究。重点将保持在这个程序开发MD和MD/博士皮肤科医生的研究和批判性思维能力，虽然博士候选人被认为有显着的潜力，使转化和分子皮肤生物学的实质性贡献也将寻求考虑。目前确定的培训教师，这一更新包括36个人在皮肤生物学和实质性的指导经验，广泛的专业知识。22个是R 01资助的“主要导师/PI”（11个在皮肤病学和其他六个部门的任命与教师任命11），所有建立国际上受人尊敬的导师和进行尖端研究集体涵盖了当代细胞和分子生物学的很大一部分。然而，学员在寻找适当的研究项目/导师时并不局限于这些目前确定的导师;事实上，强烈鼓励他们在耶鲁大学广泛寻找潜在的导师，他们的实验室将为他们提供进一步发展和完善他们的研究和批判性思维技能的最佳机会;作为一个主要的导师的必要资格包括目前的R 01或同等资金，作为一个成功的导师，并通过该计划的执行委员会批准记录以前的跟踪记录。由于我们认为这最有利于学员发展独立的知识，并将新的科学技能引入皮肤科界，因此我们将继续强调与本部门以外的优秀研究人员进行大量接触。在过去四个资助期内，每名学员将有两名导师，一名在皮肤科内部，一名在皮肤科外部。在通常情况下，其中主要导师/PI是基于部门外，皮肤科教师二级顾问将作为学员的进步，以帮助确保她/他的职业轨迹保持在课程的额外监视器。其他14名皮肤科教师被指定为“二级导师/顾问”，因为他们主要面向临床或尚未完全建立自己的独立研究计划;然而，其中五名代表新的初级教师，他们有能力获得同行评审的资金，并有潜力在未来几年内成为导师。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This T32 competitive renewal application from the Yale Department of Dermatology proposes to continue its strong track record of training future leaders in academic dermatology. Of the twenty-four trainees supported by this T32 program during the past ten years who have completed their subspecialty and/or research training, eighteen (75%) are currently in full-time positions in academic institutions, and ten of these are doing substantive basic and/or clinical investigation. Emphasis will be maintained on this program developing the research and critical thinking skills of MD and MD/PhD dermatologists, although PhD candidates considered to have significant potential to make substantive contributions to translational and molecular cutaneous biology will also be sought out for consideration. The currently identified training faculty for this renewal consists of thirty-six individuals with broad-ranging expertise in cutaneous biology and substantive previous mentoring experience. Twenty-two are R01-funded "Primary Mentors/PIs" (eleven with faculty appointments in Dermatology and eleven with appointments in six other departments), all established internationally respected mentors and conducting cutting-edge research collectively encompassing a substantial portion of contemporary cellular and molecular biology. However, trainees are not restricted to these currently identified mentors in their search for an appropriat research project/preceptor; indeed, they are strongly encouraged to look broadly throughout Yale University for potential mentors whose laboratories would provide them with the best opportunities to further develop and refine their research and critical thinking skills; necessary qualifications for being a primary mentor include current R01 or equivalent funding, a documented previous track record as a successful mentor, and approval by this program's Executive Committee. Because we consider it most conducive to the trainees' development of intellectual independence and to the introduction of new scientific skill into the dermatology community, substantial exposure to outstanding investigators outside our own department will continue to be emphasized; as during the past four funding periods, each trainee will have two mentors, one inside and one outside the Dermatology Department. In the usual circumstance in which the Primary Mentor/PI is based is outside the department, the Dermatology faculty secondary advisor will serve as an additional monitor of the trainee's progress to help insure that her/his career trajectory stays on course. Fourteen other Dermatology faculty members have been designated as "Secondary Mentors/Advisors" because they are principally clinically oriented or have yet to fully establish their independent research programs; however, five of these represent new junior faculty with demonstrated abilities to obtain peer-reviewed funding and outstanding potential to become preceptors within the next several years.