Medical Scientist Training Program

医学科学家培训计划

• 批准号: 10715841
• 负责人: DIANNA M MILEWICZ
• 金额: $ 52.41万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-23 至 2028-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10715841
• 关键词: Medical; Scientist; Training Programs

PROJECT SUMMARY The mission of our multi-institutional MSTP, comprised of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC), and in conjunction with The University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus School of Medicine (UPR), is to pursue novel training of a diverse group of intellectually gifted students for careers as physician-scientists focused on disease-oriented research and bridging the knowledge gap between medicine and basic science. The MSTP has been continuously funded since 1982 and has graduated 136 students. To expand diversity in our physician-scientist trainees, we have partnered with the UPR, leveraging a NIH-funded MDACC/UPR U54 Partnership for Excellence in Cancer Research award to integrate into our MSTP those talented UPR medical students who want to pursue research careers, and approximately 34% of our program is underrepresented minorities (URM). Applications to our program from students from across the country have doubled over the past 10 years, allowing us to matriculate a group of highly qualified students (50 students currently in the program). To prepare physician-scientists to pursue disease-oriented research, a novel educational sequence was established to integrate the medical and graduate school. Although students begin to fulfill graduate school requirements from the very beginning of the program, they complete the clinical specialty rotations before pursuing dissertation research. Students can select from 9 graduate training programs in biomedical sciences. Support for this educational sequence is provided by the fact that, in the past 10 years, attrition from the program has been less than 4% and the time to completion is 7.8 years. Our students get extensive training in ethics of research and in rigor and reproducibility as well as how to work in a safe research environment. The quality of students and the program are exemplified by strong publication records and excellent residency matches. A major element to enhance training is the required Topics in Molecular Medicine course, which provides vertical integration and community for the students, exposure to the breadth and depth of research at the institutions, and insights into career development and leadership. Based on graduates over the past 15 years, the majority of our graduates who are out of training stayed in research-related careers (71%; academia, FDA, Biotech; n = 30). MSTP support is requested for a total of 6 matriculating students per year to expand the number of students in this unique and diverse training program.

项目摘要 我们的多机构MSTP的使命，包括得克萨斯大学健康科学 休斯顿中心（UTHealth Houston），德克萨斯大学MD安德森癌症中心 （MDACC），并与波多黎各大学医学科学校区合作 医学院（UPR），是追求一个不同的智力天才群体的新颖的培训 学生的职业生涯作为医生，科学家专注于疾病为导向的研究和桥梁 医学和基础科学之间的知识鸿沟。MSTP一直在 自1982年资助以来，已有136名学生毕业。为了扩大我们的医学科学家的多样性， 学员，我们已经与普遍定期审议，利用美国国立卫生研究院资助的MDACC/普遍定期审议U 54 癌症研究卓越合作伙伴奖将那些有才华的人纳入我们的MSTP UPR医学生谁想要追求研究事业，大约34%的我们 代表性不足的少数民族（URM）申请我们的计划从学生从 在过去的10年里，全国各地的学生人数翻了一番，使我们能够录取一批 高素质的学生（50名学生目前在该计划）。培养医学科学家 为了进行以疾病为导向的研究，建立了一个新的教育序列， 医学院和研究生院。虽然学生开始达到研究生院的要求， 从项目一开始，他们就完成了临床专业轮换， 从事论文研究。学生可以从9个研究生培训课程中选择， 生物医学科学支持这种教育顺序的事实是， 在过去的10年里，该项目的人员流失率不到4%，完成时间为7.8 年我们的学生得到广泛的培训，在研究的道德和严谨性和可重复性， 以及如何在安全的研究环境中工作。学生的质量和程序是 以出色的出版记录和出色的居住匹配为例。一个主要因素， 加强培训是分子医学课程的必修主题，它提供了垂直 整合和社区的学生，接触到研究的广度和深度， 机构，以及对职业发展和领导力的见解。根据毕业生在 在过去的15年里，我们的大多数毕业生谁是走出培训留在研究相关 职业（71%;学术界，FDA，生物技术; n = 30）。总共需要6个MSTP支持 每年招收学生，以扩大学生人数在这个独特的和多样化的 培训计划。