Training in perinatal medicine

描述(申请人提供)：本培训计划的目的是为已完成住院医师培训或博士学位的儿科(新生医学)和产科(母胎医学)医生和基础科学家提供基础和临床博士后研究培训。研究培训包括围产期/发育生理学、生物化学、细胞和分子生物学的概念和技术。培训为期三年，为在儿科和妇产科从事生殖医学的学术生涯做准备。在第一年，大部分是临床项目，不是由这笔拨款资助的，受训人员与教师顾问一起选择基础研究项目和导师。提供了三个卓越的研究领域：1)胎儿营养代谢和生长；2)胎盘发育和功能；3)血管发育和血流调节。每个领域都包括临床、整体动物、器官、细胞和分子研究，因此受训者可以参与任何一个或几个级别的生物学研究。受训者参加回顾宫内发育和胎儿、产妇和新生儿生理学的研讨会。研究生院的课程涉及细胞培养、遗传学、发育生物学、细胞和分子生物学、同位素应用、生物统计学、数据处理和信息学、统计学、图形学、生物伦理学和研究的伦理行为。提供了研究设计、摘要和手稿准备方面的研讨会计划。第二年和第三年由这笔赠款资助，用于完成第一年开始的基础研究项目，并扩展到新的研究领域和新的研究技术。每个受训人员制定机构动物和临床研究方案，以解决研究中涉及的伦理问题。受训者独立计划和实施他们的研究项目，但要在教师的全面指导下进行。该计划提供基础和临床生物学调查的多学科培训，将最先进的研究技术与围产期医学和生物学的重要问题相结合。这种方法使受训者有能力独立并成功地进入学术生涯。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this training program is to provide basic and clinical postdoctoral research training for Pediatric (Neonatology) and Obstetric (Maternal-Fetal Medicine) physicians and Basic Scientists who have completed residency training or a PhD degree. The research training includes concepts and techniques in perinatal/developmental physiology, biochemistry, cell, and molecular biology. Training is for three years in preparation for academic careers in reproductive medicine within departments of Pediatrics and Obstetrics &-Gynecology. During the first year, which is largely clinical and is not funded by this grant, trainees work with faculty advisors to select basic research projects and mentors. Three areas of research excellence are offered: 1) fetal nutritional metabolism and growth; 2) placental development and function; 3) vascular development and regulation of blood flow. Each area includes clinical, whole animal, organ, cell, and molecular research so that a trainee can participate at any one or several levels of biological investigation. Trainees attend seminars that review intrauterine development and fetal, maternal, and neonatal physiology. Courses in the graduate school dealing with cell culture, genetics, developmental biology, cell and molecular biology, isotope applications, biostatistics, data processing and informatics, statistics, graphics, bioethics, and ethical conduct of research are included. Seminar programs in research design and abstract and manuscript preparation are provided. The second and third years, funded by this grant are devoted to the completion of the basic research projects begun in the first year and expansion into new areas of research and new research techniques. Each trainee develops institutional animal and clinical research protocols to address ethical issues involved in research. Trainees plan and conduct their research projects independently, but with full faculty guidance. This program provides multidisciplinary training in basic and clinical biological investigation, integrating state-of-the-art research techniques with important questions in perinatal medicine and biology. This approach equips the trainees with the capacity to move independently and successfully into academic careers.