Interdisciplinary Women's Reproductive Health Fellowship (RHF)

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议在加尔维斯顿德克萨斯大学医学分部（UTMB）设立跨学科妇女生殖健康（RHF）博士后。RHF培训计划将提供5个为期2年的奖学金职位，培养医学博士、临床博士和其他博士后科学家在妇女生殖健康领域的研究事业。被任命者将从多样化、竞争性的候选人才库中挑选，特别强调征聘代表性不足的少数民族。生殖健康基金培训方案将丰富UTMB的T32组合，成为第一个专门针对妇女生殖健康的培训方案。RHF通过提供结构化但灵活的研究经验，重点是培养独立研究职业的早期成长，解决了医疗保健专业人员和研究科学家的培训需求。学员被纳入妇产科3个委员会认证的研究项目，妇女健康跨学科研究中心的妇女健康研究项目，以及内科学、外科学、预防医学和生物化学与分子生物学项目教师的个人项目。16位导师之间现有的紧密合作关系使这种多学科方法成为可能。导师们资金充足，发表了大量文章，并且多年来一直与他人合作撰写和指导。RHF培养计划的具体目标是：(1)通过积极招募不同背景和学科的博士后，包括医学博士、临床博士和基础科学博士，提高妇女生殖健康研究人员的质量和数量；(2)建立和维持一个支持UTMB妇女生殖健康研究的基础设施，包括强有力的指导、全面的研究培训和合作研究者/导师网络；(3)利用UTMB提供的高质量课程：(a)为致力于妇女生殖健康研究事业的新调查人员提供一个富有成效的跨学科研究的教育平台；(b)使他们参与富有成效的、有指导的、逐步更加独立的研究项目。培训项目主管将完成对学员个人的定期评估，以确保在独立研究事业的发展中取得足够的进步。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to develop a new postdoctoral fellowship in Interdisciplinary Women's Reproductive Health (RHF) at The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston (UTMB). The RHF training program will support 5 positions for 2-year fellowships that prepare MDs, clinical PhDs, and other postdoctoral scientists for research careers in the area of women's reproductive health. Appointees will be selected from a diverse, competitive candidate pool, with special emphasis on the recruitment of underrepresented minorities. The RHF training program will enrich the T32 portfolio at UTMB, becoming the first of its type dedicated to reproductive health in women. The RHF addresses the training needs of both healthcare professionals and research scientists by providing a structured but flexible research experience with an emphasis on fostering the early growth of an independent research career. Trainees are incorporated into the investigative programs of 3 board-certified fellowships in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, a fellowship in women's health in the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Health, and with individual projects of program faculty in Internal Medicine, Surgery, Preventive Medicine, and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Strong existing collaborative ties among the 16 mentors make this multidisciplinary approach possible. The mentors are well funded, heavily published, and have co-authored and co-mentored for many years. The specific aims of the RHF training program are to: (1) increase the quality and quantity of researchers in women's reproductive health by actively recruiting promising postdoctoral fellows from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, including MDs, clinical PhDs, and basic science PhDs; (2) build upon and maintain a supportive infrastructure for women's reproductive health research at UTMB, including strong mentoring, comprehensive research training, and collaborative investigator/mentor networks; and (3) utilize the high-quality curriculum available at UTMB to (a) provide new investigators committed to a research career in women's reproductive health with an educational platform for productive interdisciplinary research and (b) engage them in productive, mentored, and progressively more independent research projects. Regular reviews of individual trainees will be completed by the training program directors to ensure that adequate progress toward the development of an independent research career is made.