NICHD Institutional Training for Pediatricians

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案是2003年根据RFA HD- 02-019为NICHD儿科医生机构培训最初资助的第一个竞争性续期。我们的申请需要持续的资源来培训4名拥有医学博士或医学博士/博士学位的儿科医生。每年在加州大学旧金山分校（UCSF）儿科学系获得儿科研究学位。在该奖项的前4年，我们支持培训了12名儿科亚专科研究员（4名男性和8名女性）。所有完成奖学金的5名学员（4名在UCSF）都有学术任命，三分之二的博士后培训至少三年的研究员已经提交或持有职业发展奖（K奖）。加州大学旧金山分校的儿科学系致力于培养年轻的儿科研究人员，他们热衷于翻译科学数据以提高儿童的健康水平。因此，本T32申请的目标是为致力于在与儿科疾病高度相关的研究中持续发展的儿科亚专科研究员提供严格的科学培训和广泛的职业指导。我们预计大多数学者将强调Tl（实验室到人类受试者）或T2（证据到实践）研究，并概述针对每种途径的适当培训内容。然而，我们也认识到，一些受训者将从事将整合Tl和T2调查元素的项目，或者在T32支持期间，研究和职业目标可能会发生变化。因此，该计划旨在与每个T32学者积极合作，设计和实施最佳培训计划。Tl和T2研究员的培训计划包括以下四个关键要素：(1)有指导的研究经历；(2)科学的课程作业；(3)跨学科体验和职业发展研讨会；(4)持续审查和评价。一个完善的指导计划已经到位。T32项目的目标是90%的毕业生在培训结束后进入学术医学领域（到目前为止的实际表现为100%），80%的毕业生在学术医学领域工作超过5年，三分之二的毕业生在完成培训后的12个月内申请K奖（到目前为止的实际表现为63%），50%的毕业生拥有独立的，联邦政府资助的5年内毕业（没有足够的时间来评估这一指标的表现）。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is the first competing renewal of a grant initially funded in 2003 in response to the RFA HD- 02-019 for NICHD Institutional Training for Pediatricians. Our application requests ongoing resources to train 4 pediatricians with an M.D. or M.D./PhD. degree each year in pediatric research in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). In the first 4 years of this award we have supported the training of 12 pediatric subspecialty fellows (4 men and 8 women). All 5 trainees who have finished their fellowships have academic appointments (4 at UCSF) and two-thirds of the fellows with at least three years of post-doctoral training have submitted or hold a career development award (K award). The Department of Pediatrics at UCSF is strongly committed to producing young pediatric researchers who are passionate about translating scientific data to enhance the health of children. The goal therefore of this T32 application is to provide rigorous scientific training and extensive career mentoring to pediatric subspecialty fellows who are committed to a sustained career in research is highly relevant to pediatric disease. We anticipate that most scholars will emphasize either Tl (Laboratory to Human Subjects) or T2 (Evidence to Practice) research and outline appropriate training components specific to each pathway. However, we also recognize that some trainees will pursue projects that will integrate elements of Tl and T2 investigation or that research and career goals may shift during the period of T32 support. For this reason, the program is designed to work proactively with each T32 scholar to design and implement an optimal training program. The training program for Tl and T2 fellows consists of the following four key elements: (1) a mentored research experience; (2) scientific course work; (3) interdisciplinary experiences and career development workshops; and, (4) ongoing review and evaluation. A well-established mentoring program is in place. The objective goals of the T32 program are to have 90% of the graduates enter academic medicine at the completion of training (actual performance to date 100%), 80% remain in academic medicine for greater than 5 years, two-thirds of the graduates apply for a K award within 12 months of completing training (actual performance to date 63%), and 50% of graduates to have an independent, federally-funded grant within 5 years of graduation (not enough time has passed to evaluate performance on this metric).