Training Future Imaging Scientists for Biomedicine

描述（由申请人提供）：培训未来的成像科学家的生物医学该计划的目的是产生成像科学家都受过训练的技术和医学应用的医学成像。医学成像可以作为许多医学创新发展的中心，但要实现这一点，医学成像科学家不仅必须了解医学成像技术，还要了解基础医学，生物学和化学。对这些人员的培训应提供专门知识，以开发新的成像方法，甚至是基于我们对细胞和分子生物学日益加深的理解的模式。该计划将包括1）博士前奖学金-这些学生将从密歇根大学接受学位授予计划的学生中挑选出来，这些学生对医学成像有特殊兴趣。这些学生将被分配一个共同导师除了他们的论文导师，以发展他们的专业知识，在与他们的研究课题相关的基本医学问题。这是一个为期三年的计划，包括具体的强制性和个性化的教学内容。2)博士后奖学金a）医学博士奖学金-这些奖学金将颁发给持有医学博士学位并参加住院医师项目并接受医学成像专门培训的个人。这些受训人员将由医生和基础科学家共同指导，他们将为他们的研究经验提供额外的技术组成部分。该奖学金将在两年的时间内进行，至少有21个月的培训时间和具体的强制性和个性化的教学内容。B）博士奖学金-这些奖学金将颁发给拥有博士学位并希望在医学成像或相关领域接受专门培训的个人。这种培训可能是为那些个人与显着的背景，在成像额外的培训将在一个特定的成像领域或基础科学领域，成像研究的基础。或者，该奖学金可以颁发给在基础科学学位的个人，可以通过该奖学金提供的医学成像教育机会为成像领域做出贡献。这是一个为期两年的计划，包括具体的强制性和个性化的教学组成部分。具有医学和基础科学背景的教师和学员的组合提供了协同作用的机会，并提高了未来成像科学家所需的医学博士和博士的培训。此外，医学博士和博士的培训提供了同行教学和合作的机会，这将促进受过类似培训的成像科学家之间更密切的工作关系。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Training Future Imaging Scientists for Biomedicine This program is designed to produce imaging scientists that are trained both the technology and medical application of medical imaging. Medical imaging can serve as a hub for the development of many medical innovations but for this to occur, the medical imaging scientists must understand not only the technology of medical imaging but also the underlying medicine, biology and chemistry. The training of such personnel should provide the expertise to develop new imaging methods and even modalities that are based on our increasing understanding of the cellular and molecular biology. The program will include 1) Predoctoral Fellowships - These students would be selected from those accepted to degree granting programs at the University of Michigan that have specific interests in medical imaging. Such students would be assigned a co-mentor in addition to their dissertation advisor to develop their expertise in the fundamental medical issues associated with their research topic. This is a three-year program including specific compulsory and individualized didactic components. 2) Postdoctoral Fellowships a) MD Fellowships - These fellowships would be awarded to individuals holding an MD and participating in residency programs with specific training in medical imaging. These trainees would co-mentored by both a physician and basic scientist who will provide the additional technological component to their research experience. This fellowship will occur over a two-year period with a minimum of 21 months of training time and specific compulsory and individualized didactic components. b) PhD Fellowships - These fellowships would be awarded to individuals holding a PhD and desiring specific training in medical imaging or a related area. This training could be for those individuals with significant background in imaging where the additional training would be in a specific imaging area or an area of basic science that underpins imaging research. Alternatively, the fellowship could be awarded to individuals with degree(s) in a basic science that could contribute to the imaging field with the educational opportunity in medical imaging afforded by this fellowship. This is a two-year program including specific compulsory and individualized didactic components. The combination of faculty and trainees with backgrounds in medicine and basic science provides opportunities for synergy and improves the training of MDs and PhDs necessary for imaging scientists of the future. Also, training of MDs and PhDs together provides opportunities for peer teaching and collaboration that will foster a closer working relationships among imaging scientists who are similarly trained.