Cross-disciplinary Training in Medical Physics

描述（由申请人提供）： 杜克大学医学物理研究生项目是一个快速发展、充满活力的针对理学硕士学生的培训项目。和博士级别。其42名教职人员来自放射科、放射肿瘤科、物理学、生物医学工程、职业与环境安全（健康物理学）等科系，其中包括许多国际公认的专家。该项目提供医学物理学所有四个主要学术领域的强化课堂、研究和临床培训：诊断成像物理学、放射肿瘤学物理学、核医学物理学和医学健康物理学。它是美国为数不多的在这四个领域提供完整培训课程的培训项目之一。由于其在这四个领域的教师专业知识和强大的课程，它为博士生提供了独特的跨学科培训体验的机会。当前医学物理学的前沿工作要求科学家拥有多个研究领域的专业知识。该培训计划的独特之处在于，它将为每位学员提供至少两个医学物理学分支学科的具体强化培训。培训计划的具体要素包括：(1) 实施在主修和辅修学术课程中提供核心培训和个性化高水平培训的课程，(2) 为学生提供主要导师和副导师，以最好地指导他们的跨学科培训，(3) 对学生进行主要学术课程的临床要素培训，以便为他们的研究提供良好的背景，(4) 为研究生学习的前三年提供奖学金，随后得到顾问的支持，(5)为每个学生提供与特定研究主题相关的3-6个月的异地学习经历的机会，（6）为学生从第一年开始提供参加科学会议的旅费，使他们尽早了解高水平医学物理研究的愿景，（7）招募和留住最优秀的学生，特别注重建立多元化的学生群体，以及（8）对学生进行充分的研究道德培训，使他们能够建立良好的职业生涯。相关性：这一培训计划将培养在多个医学物理学领域接受过培训的科学家，因此他们将最有能力推进该领域的跨学科研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Medical Physics Graduate Program at Duke University is a rapidly growing, vibrant training program for students at the M.S. and PhD level. Its 42 faculty members come from the departments of radiology, radiation oncology, physics, biomedical engineering, and occupational and environmental safety (health physics), and include many internationally recognized experts. The program provides intensive classroom, research, and clinical training in all four of the main academic areas of medical physics: diagnostic imaging physics, radiation oncology physics, nuclear medicine physics, and medical health physics. It is one of the few training programs in the U.S. with a full training curriculum in each of these four areas. Because of its faculty expertise and strong curriculum in these four areas, it provides the opportunity for a unique interdisciplinary training experience for PhD students. Current cutting-edge work in medical physics requires scientists to have expertise in more than one area of study. This training program is unique in that it will provide each trainee specific and intensive training in at least two subdisciplines of medical physics. Specific elements of the training program include: (1) implementing a curriculum that provides core training plus individualized high-level training in both a major and minor academic track of study, (2) providing students with both a principal mentor and a co-mentor to best guide them in their cross-disciplinary training, (3) training students in the clinical elements of their major academic track, in order to provide a sound context for their research, (4) providing fellowship funding for the first three years of graduate study, to be followed by support from advisors, (5) providing opportunities for 3-6 month off-site learning experiences related to the particular topic of each student's research, (6) providing travel funds for students to attend a scientific meeting beginning in their first year, so that they will catch a vision for high-level medical physics research as early as possible, (7) recruiting and retaining students of the very highest caliber, paying particular attention to building a diverse student body, and (8) adequately training students in the ethics of research so that they can build sound careers. Relevance: This training program will produce scientists trained in more than one area of medical physics, who will thus be best able to advance interdisciplinary research in the field.