Pathophysiology and Rehabilitation of Neural Dysfunction

描述（由申请人提供）：这个持续培训项目，题为“神经功能障碍的病理生理学和康复”，旨在每年培养四名博士生和三名博士后，研究与神经损伤和残疾理解相关的基础科学和工程方法。这项提议的动机是持续需要培训熟练的康复研究人员，能够涵盖康复临床医生管理神经系统疾病所面临的全部问题。申请人还计划为未来培养潜在的研究导师，因为这将传播知识，并有助于维持康复领域。由于康复研究领域受过训练的研究人员的数量仍然相当有限，因此方法将是在许多不同的来源寻求适当的指导专家，包括医学院的其他部门、大学其他地方和整个城市。考虑到教师的技能和专业知识的范围，申请人将重点招聘工程师、神经科学家和住院医师后，从潜在的学员群体中挑选，包括女性、少数民族和残疾学生。这些博士前和博士后受训者将作为培训资助研究员至少2年，在此期间他们将接触到广泛的教学培训，研究实验室经验和研究伦理培训。研究员还将参加实验室会议、期刊俱乐部、临床大查房和研究讨论会。在可能的情况下，研究员还将被要求撰写一份拨款提案，寻求NIH、私人基金会或联邦机构的外部支持。这个机会既可以教授研究员宝贵的拨款写作技巧，也可以通过释放新的插槽供其他研究员使用，从而使我们的项目得以发展。最后，申请人还计划通过向医科学生和工程本科生提供短期培训机会，特别强调招募少数民族，吸引潜在的研究人员进入该领域。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This continuing training program, entitled "Pathophysiology and Rehabilitation of Neural Dysfunction" seeks to train four predoctoral and three postdoctoral researchers each year in basic science and engineering methods relevant to the understanding of neurological impairment and disability. This proposal is motivated by the continuing need to train skilled rehabilitation researchers, capable of covering the full range of problems confronted by rehabilitation clinicians managing neurological illness. The applicants also plan to train potential research mentors for the future, since this will propagate knowledge, and help sustain the field of rehabilitation. Because the numbers of trained researchers in the field of rehabilitation research is still quite modest, the approach will be to seek appropriate mentoring expertise in many different sources, including other departments in the medical school, elsewhere in the university, and in the city at large. Given the range of skills and expertise in the faculty, the applicants will emphasize recruitment of engineers, neuroscientists, and post-residency physiatrists, drawn from a diverse population of potential trainees, including women, minorities, and disabled students. These predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees will serve as training grant fellows for a minimum of 2 years, in which time they will be exposed to a broad array of didactic training, research laboratory experiences, and training in ethics of research. Fellows will also participate in laboratory meetings, journal clubs, clinical grand rounds, and research colloquia. Where possible, fellows will also be required to write a grant proposal seeking extramural support from the NIH, or from private foundations or federal agencies. This opportunity is provided both to teach fellows valuable grant writing skills and also to allow our program to grow by releasing new slots for use by other fellows. Finally, the applicants also plan to attract potential researchers into the field by offering short-term training opportunities to medical students and engineering undergraduates, with particular emphasis on the recruitment of minorities.