CHOP Pediatric Scholars Program

费城儿童医院(CHOP)提议建立一家由NICHD赞助的 儿童健康研究职业发展奖(CHRCDA)K12计划。我们的目标是 增加具有严格背景的专科儿科医生的数量和效率 和分子技术方面的技能，通过识别和培训有前途的儿科教师成为 成功的内科科学家，并鼓励他们解决基本的问题 对儿童健康和疾病的重要性。我们项目的候选人将是印章教员 从我们的专科研究员中任命，并通过全国搜索。每一位候选人都将确定 29名导师中的一名准导师，其中22名来自儿科，其他7名 来自宾夕法尼亚大学(U Of P)。Chop CHRCDA导师被选为 通过以下标准：从儿童到儿童领域的严谨科学；成功的记录 研究互动和指导；强大的外部资金；以及方案平衡。 儿科学者将获得不少于两年的支持，以进行 他们的正式研究申请。他们将可以随时访问一个全面的分子核心 并有充分的机会在正式和非正式的环境中与其他高级和 初级调查员。我们认为CHRCDA是我们CHRC的自然继承者，后者是 非常成功地催化产生了能够进行 基础研究。在我们举办CHRC的10年里，我们选出了39名地图学者 来自11个儿科专科。其中，85%的人留在了学术界，72%的人继续 将超过50%的时间花在研究上，71%的人成功地获得了一个或多个 NIH个人拨款，包括16个RO1或R29个奖项。我们的CHRCDA将在这一传统的基础上继续发展 基于CHOP作为一家儿科学术机构的优势，拥有一批杰出的子专业 研究员，拥有尖端研究项目的经验丰富的导师，一个得到很好支持的资源- 丰富的研究环境，以及久经考验的研究培训传统。

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) proposes to establish an NICHD-sponsored Child Health Research Career Development Award (CHRCDA) K12 program. Our goal is to increase the number and effectiveness of subspecialty pediatricians with a rigorous background and skills in molecular techniques by identifying and training promising pediatric faculty to become successful physician-scientists, and to encourage them to address questions of fundamental importance to health and disease in children. Candidates for our program will be CHOP faculty appointed from our subspecialty fellows and through national searches. Each candidate will identify a prospective mentor from a group of 29 mentors, 22 from the Department of Pediatrics, the other 7 from elsewhere at the University of Pennsylvania (U of P). CHOP CHRCDA mentors were chosen by the following criteria: rigorous science in areas germaine to children; a record of successful research interactions and mentoring; strong extramural funding; and programmatic balance. Pediatric Scholars will be supported for no less than two years to conduct research as outlined in their formal research applications. They will have ready access to a comprehensive Molecular Core and ample opportunities to exchange ideas in formal and informal settings with other senior and junior investigators. We view the CHRCDA as a natural successor to our CHRC, which was extremely successful in catalyzing the production of physician-scientists capable of conducting fundamental research. During the 10 years that we held the CHRC, we selected 39 MAPS Scholars from 11 pediatric subspecialties. Of these, 85% have remained in academics, 72% continue to spend more than 50% of their time in research, and 71% have succeeded in obtaining one or more individual NIH grants, including 16 RO1 or R29 awards. Our CHRCDA will build on this tradition and upon CHOP's strengths as a pediatric academic institution with an outstanding pool of subspecialty fellows, experienced mentors with cutting edge research programs, a well supported and resource- rich research environment, and a proven tradition of research trainin 9.