NSADA Training Grant for Child Neurologists

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的跨学科机构神经科学学术发展奖（NSADA）计划的目的，总部设在费城儿童医院（CHOP）和宾夕法尼亚大学（U of P），是培养具有MD或MD/PhD的儿童神经科医生在学术界作为临床科学家蓬勃发展。我们的长期目标是为我们的学员建立基础和临床研究的基础，因为它涉及到儿童神经系统疾病。这将使我们的毕业生能够深入了解疾病过程，然后让其他人通过进行精心设计的临床试验将这些科学观察带到“床边”。39名导师将参加该计划的首次竞争性更新; 18名主要在CHOP，21名主要在P.所有人都积极参与生物医学研究生教育，并通过相互研究项目和赠款密切相关。除了指导的研究培训，我们的课程强调：1）通过P研究生课程的U正式课程工作，2）在适当的时候，通过P的U的CCEB计划在统计学和临床流行病学硕士注册，3）在负责任的研究行为的培训，4）在生物统计学培训，和5）研讨会，涵盖了各种重要的生存技能。包括科学写作，公开演讲，资助写作研讨会，实验室管理和职业发展技能。在我们计划的前4年，我们接受了4名学员; 2名是医学博士，2名是医学博士/博士。其中两名学员是女性。在第1年和第2年的两名候选人是在P作为助理教授的U的教师，和其他两个是导师也在P的U.我们要求继续支持1儿童神经科医生/年是NSADA候选人。我们的目标仍然集中在提供一个培训计划，不同于任何其他在CHOP或P的重点是儿童神经学家获得必要的培训，使他们成为优秀的临床医生/科学家。该计划受益于在一个优秀的环境，承诺大量资源的培训，基础生物医学研究，并以真正的“板凳到床边”的方法转化研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aim of our interdisciplinary Institutional Neurological Sciences Academic Development Award (NSADA) Program, based at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and The University of Pennsylvania (U of P), is to train child neurologists with a MD or MD/PhD to flourish in academia as clinician scientists. Our long-term goals are for our trainees to establish the foundations of basic and clinical research as it pertains to childhood neurological diseases. This will enable our graduates to make Inroads to our understanding of disease processes, and then for others to take these scientific observations to the "bedside" by conducting well-designed clinical trials. 39 mentors will participate in this first competitive renewal of this program; 18 are based primarily at CHOP, and 21 primarily at the U of P. All are heavily involved in biomedical graduate education and are closely interlinked by mutual research projects and grants. In addition to mentored research training, our curriculum emphasizes: 1) formal course work through the U of P Graduate Studies Program, 2) when appropriate, enroll in the Masters in Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology through the CCEB program at U of P, 3) training in responsible conduct of research, 4) training In biostatistics, and 5) workshops that cover a variety of important survival skills. Including scientific writing, public presentations, grant writing workshops, laboratory management and career advancement skills. During the first 4 years of our program, we accepted 4 trainees; 2 were MDs, and 2 were MD/PhDs. Two of these trainees were female. The two candidates in years 1 and 2 are on the faculty at U of P as Assistant Professors, and the other two are Instructors also at U of P. We request continued support for 1 child neurologist/year to be a NSADA candidate. Our goal remains focused on providing a training program unlike any other here at CHOP or U of P that is focused on child neurologists to acquire the necessary training that will enable them to be outstanding clinicians/scientists. This program benefits from being in an outstanding environment that commits substantial resources to training, to basic biomedical research, and to a true 'bench to bedside" approach to translational research.