Training for Clinician Scientists in Imaging Research

描述(由申请人提供)： 这项T32培训基金将提供影像研究方面的强化培训，总体目标是在未来的研究生涯中增加使用成像技术的临床科学家的数量。我们越来越迫切需要这些医生成为我们主要临床专科的未来教师和导师。多年来，学术放射科医生一直是有据可查的短缺。特别是，放射学在作为临床住院医师计划的一部分提供正式培训和研究机会方面的历史相对较弱，但成像方法学现在正在渗透到许多医学/科学学科。住院医师，特别是诊断放射学和核医学专业的住院医师，将获得他们通常不会接受的有组织的、严格的研究培训。教学课程将在临床期间获得，包括确定培训导师和实验室，然后至少1至2年的正式全日制T32资助的研究。这也将直接与现有的更高级的培训计划相结合，包括临床研究方面的硕士和博士学位授予计划，以及与基础科学和公共卫生计划的机会。所有职位中至少有25%将向其他科室的住院医生开放，明确地说是精神病学、神经病学、内科和外科，他们打算将成像(例如，神经成像或介入成像)作为其研究生涯的一部分。通过在他们职业生涯的早期开始，我们预计这最终可能会对这些医生将采取的职业道路产生重大影响。最终的结果是，将有更多的医生从事基础和应用方法相结合的研究事业。培训计划将包括在培训年度之前明确的教学课程，然后是T32培训年的完整学期课程，以及精心分配的导师和实验室。这些教师不仅来自放射学，而且来自相关的系，还包括生物工程和电气工程。因此，学员不仅将在精神病学、神经学和放射学实验室接受培训，还将在约翰霍普金斯大学附属部门和NIH内部(巴尔的摩和贝塞斯达)以及潜在的工业科学实验室接受培训，提供真正的学科内研究培训体验。评价将包括正式进度报告、模拟赠款的准备和审查，以及出版物和必要的国家介绍。长期目标是吸引住院医师从事影像研究，将其作为未来学术生涯的主要组成部分。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This T32 training grant will provide intensive training in Imaging Research with the overall goal of increasing the number of clinician scientists employing imaging in their future research careers. There is an increasingly serious need for such physicians to become the future teachers and mentors in our major clinical specialties. There is a documented shortage of academic radiologists over a number of years now. In particular, Radiology has had a relatively weak history of providing formal training and research opportunities as part of the Clinical Residency Program and yet imaging methodology is now pervading many medical/scientific disciplines. Resident physicians especially in Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Programs will obtain a structured, rigorous research training that they would not normally receive. Didactic coursework will be obtained during the clinical years including identification of training mentors and labs followed by a minimum of 1 to 2 years of formal full time T32 funded research. This will also directly be integrated with existing more advanced training programs including M.S. and Ph.D. degree granting programs in clinical investigation as well as opportunities with basic science and public health programs. At least 25% of all the positions will be open for residents of other departments, explicitly Psychiatry, Neurology, Medicine and Surgery who intend on employing imaging (e.g., Neuro-imaging or interventional imaging) as part of their research careers. By starting early in their careers, we anticipate this may ultimately have a major effect on the career paths these physicians will take. The ultimate outcome will be increased numbers of physicians who will carry out a research career integrated with both basic and applied approaches. The training program will consist of explicit didactic courses prior to the training year, followed by full semester courses during the T32 training years and carefully assigned mentors and laboratories. The faculty is drawn not only from Radiology but from the associated departments and also including Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering. Thus trainees will train not only in Psychiatry, Neurology and Radiology laboratories but in affiliated departments at Johns Hopkins University and Intramural NIH (Baltimore and Bethesda) and potential industrial scientific labs providing a true intra-disciplinary research training experience. Evaluation will include formal progress reports, mock grant preparation and review, as well as publications and required national presentations. The long term goal is to attract resident physicians into a career employing imaging research as a major component of their future academic careers.