Comparative Biomedical Scientist Training Program

该项目是国立卫生研究院研究生合作计划的组成部分，旨在协调博士研究培训和大学与国立卫生研究院的接口。自2019-2020年完成全国复赛以来，随着新的大学合作伙伴整合为培训中心合作伙伴，该项目的成就在学术兽医内部继续得到更广泛的认可。学术界认识到，劳动力规模和获得资源的限制仍然是在学术兽医方面取得更大进展以及人类和兽医之间的接触(One Health)的长期挑战。兽医在改善人类健康方面发挥着重要作用。一个健康互动，特别是通过生物医学研究中的跨学科合作，为了解资源政策和促进卫生保健提供了建设性的机会。为此，个别兽医医学教育项目(VMEP)和几个国立卫生研究院(NIH)校内研究项目之间的机构间合作伙伴关系创造了超出个别项目所提供的协同效应。在NIH比较生物医学科学家培训计划(CBSTP)中，兽医的跨学科交叉培训包括专业兽医和人类疾病研究方面的培训，在兽医医学教育项目和NIH校区合作进行。兽医专业博士前学生的研究机会也继续提供。通过CBSTP，NIH研究人员和国家生物医学科学政策制定者获得了兽医视角和专业知识，而兽医则获得了NIH资助的研究培训的更多机会。CBSTP研究员担任事实上的大使，在驻NIH期间以及随后作为CBSTP毕业生通过各种大学、行业和政府研究任命提高该专业的知名度。因此，CBSTP代表着一个机构间机会，它不仅解决了生物医学劳动力中兽医科学家的关键需求，而且同时使国家政策制定者接受兽医科学家的专业培训和专业知识，从而更有效地实现造福人类和动物健康的One Health目标。该计划建立在对生物医学科学问题的跨学科和比较取向的基础上。2023财年的计划和实习生成就包括：目前有14名兽医接受了比较生物医学科学家的培训，得到了多个NIH合作研究所的支持。自上一份年度报告以来，没有研究员完成博士学位。目前的三名学员通过了由美国兽医病理学家学会管理的国家考试，完成了委员会认证。针对兽医学生的暑期实习计划在疫情爆发后于今年重新启动。CBSTP接待了四名二年级或三年级的兽医学生进行暑期研究实习。2023年，在新的毕业生伙伴关系联盟内，招募了四名兽医在CBSTP进行培训。

The project is a constituent of the NIH Graduate Partnership Program and serves to coordinate the doctoral research training and the university-NIH interface. The project achievements continue to become more widely recognized within academic veterinary medicine as new university partners have integrated as training center partners since a national recompetition was completed in 2019-2020. The academic community recognized limitations in workforce size and access to resources remained perennial challenges to greater progress in academic veterinary medicine and the engagement between human and veterinary medicine (One Health). Veterinarians play significant roles in improving human health. One Health interactions, particularly through interdisciplinary collaborations in biomedical research, present constructive opportunities to inform resource policies and advance health care. To this end, inter-institutional partnerships between individual veterinary medical education programs (VMEPs) and several National Institutes of Health (NIH) intramural research programs have created synergies beyond those provided by individual programs. In the NIH Comparative Biomedical Scientist Training Program (CBSTP), interdisciplinary cross-training of veterinarians consisting of specialty veterinary medicine coupled with training in human disease research leading to a PhD, occurs collaboratively on both Vetarinary Medical Education Programs and NIH campuses. Pre-doctoral veterinary student research opportunities also continue to be made available. Through the CBSTP, NIH investigators and national biomedical science policy makers gain access to veterinary perspective and expertise, while veterinarians obtain additional opportunities for NIH-funded research training. CBSTP Fellows serve as de facto ambassadors enhancing visibility for the profession while in residence at NIH, and subsequently through a variety of university, industry, and government research appointments, as CBSTP graduates. Thus, the CBSTP represents an inter-institutional opportunity that not only addresses critical needs for veterinarian-scientists in the biomedical workforce, but also simultaneously exposes national policy makers to veterinarian-scientists' specialized training and expertise, leading to more effective realization of One Health goals to benefit human and animal health. The program builds upon an interdisciplinary and comparative orientation to problems in biomedical science. Program and trainee accomplishments for fiscal year 2023 include: Presently there are 14 veterinarians training as comparative biomedical scientists, supported by multiple NIH collaborating institutes. No fellows completed their PhD degree since the previous annual report. Three current trainees completed board certification by passing the national examination administered by The American College of Veterinary Pathologists. The summer internship program for veterinary students was reinstituted this year following the pandemic. The CBSTP hosted four 2nd or third year veterinary students for summer research internships. Four veterinarians were recruited in 2023 to train in the CBSTP within the new Graduate partnership consortium.