Research Education Program for Residents and Fellows in Neurology

该研究教育计划旨在提供调查科学方面的教学，此外， 保护时间，结构，资源，指导和研究技能培训，以多样化和优秀的 神经病学住院医师将成为临床神经科学研究的下一代领导者。一些 我们计划的独特之处在于：（1）我们能够为您提供9个月的80%保护时间， 在住院期间进行研究教育和研究参与;（2）我们将每个参与者与两者配对 一名资深导师和一名初级导师，他们密切参与者的研究和培训。我们 增加了新的机制，以提高由培训人员提交的K奖的成功率， 程序.在霍普金斯环境是高度跨学科合作，并提供一流的研究 教育资源，通过临床和转化科学奖，彭博公共学院 健康，脑科学研究所，神经ICE（细胞工程研究所），柯比功能 成像中心，大脑研究所，和许多其他跨学科的计划。这一方案也是 旨在培养一批有才华和鼓舞人心的导师，他们将继续担任 模型和有效的教练，使居民和研究员成为独立的临床科学家， 热衷于发现神经疾病的机制，改善诊断和治疗， 神经系统疾病，并促进神经功能的恢复。我们通过以下方式实现这一目标： 由高级导师指导初级导师，提供建设性的反馈和评价，以及 组织“指导导师”方案和指导讲习班。截至目前，该基金已资助22 优秀的居民，他们都积极参与研究。在15名已完成 计划，14（93%）已获得资金，至少50%的努力，至少两年，所有已获得 学术教师职位。此外，15人中有9人（60%）申请了K奖或同等奖项，其中4人 已获资助，其他人正在等待。该计划在招聘方面也非常成功 妇女和/或来自传统上在科学领域代表性不足的少数民族的受训人员和初级导师。 我们还非常成功地促进了女性和少数民族初级导师的发展， 教授谁现在是高级导师与自己的高生产力的研究计划。

This Research Education Program is designed to provide teaching in the science of investigation, in addition to protected time, structure, resources, mentoring, and research skills training to diverse and outstanding neurology residents who will become the next generation of leaders in clinical neuroscience research. Some unique aspects of our programs are (1) that we are able to provide nine months of 80% protected time for research education and research participation during residency; and (2) that we pair each participant with both a Senior Mentor and a Junior Mentor who are closely engaged in the participant’s research and training. We have added new mechanisms to increase the success of K awards submitted by the trainees supported by this program. The Hopkins environment is highly collaborative across disciplines and provides superb research education resources, through the Clinical and Translational Science Award, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Brain Sciences Institute, Neuro-ICE (Institute of Cellular Engineering), the Kirby Functional Imaging Center, The Mind Brain Institute, and many other interdisciplinary programs. This program is also designed to develop a diverse group of talented and inspirational mentors who will continue to serve role models and effective coaches, enabling residents and fellows to become independent clinician scientists with a passion for discovery in the mechanisms of neurological disease, improving diagnosis and treatment of neurological disease, and facilitating recovery of neurological function. We accomplish this aim through mentoring of Junior Mentors by Senior Mentors, with constructive feedback and evaluations, as well as structured “mentoring the mentor” programs and mentoring workshops. To date this grant has supported 22 exceptional residents, who all remain actively engaged in research. Of the 15 who have completed the program, 14 (93%) have obtained funding for at least 50% effort for at least two years and all have obtained academic faculty positions. Furthermore, 9/15 (60%) have applied for K awards or equivalent, 4 of which have been funded and others are pending. The program has also been exceptionally successful in recruiting trainees and Junior Mentors who are women and/or from minorities traditionally under-represented in science. We have also been very successful in facilitating the development of female and minority junior mentors into Professors who are now Senior Mentors with their own highly productive research programs.