Physician-Scientist Mentoring at the American Society for Clinical Investigation

描述（由申请人提供）：美国医师协会（AAP）和美国临床研究学会（ASCI）联席会议是学术医师-科学家的卓越年度会议。2010年联席会议将于4月23日至25日在芝加哥费尔蒙酒店举行。一百多年来，这个会议每年举行一次，在学术医学中一直发挥着重要作用。在过去的十多年里，联席会议主要强调对医师-科学家培训生的指导。这个R13应用程序寻求对这些工作的继续支持。支持越来越多的学员参加会议的费用主要由AAP和ASCI的成员承担。传统上，学员的注册费保持在尽可能低的水平，并且只要有可能就免除。在过去的几年里，从私人营利性和非营利性组织筹集教育补助金已经部分成功地抵消了成本，但随着更严格的限制和不断恶化的经济，这变得越来越困难。去年，联席会议出现了严重赤字。尽管形势不利，美国儿科学会和ASCI仍致力于促进医师-科学家培训，并鼓励学员参加联合会议。因此，除其他努力外，我们通过R13机制寻求支持，通过以下目标促进联合会议对医师-科学家学员的指导：1)扩大联合会议对早期职业医师-科学家教师的影响范围；2)在资深医师-科学家和早期职业医师-科学家教师之间提供指导。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Joint Meetings of the Association of American Physicians (AAP) and the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) is the preeminent annual meeting of academic physician- scientists. The 2010 Joint Meeting will be held in Chicago, April 23-25, at the Fairmont Hotel. This meeting has occurred annually for over one hundred years and has played an important role in academic medicine throughout that time1. For more than the past decade, the Joint Meeting has primarily stressed mentoring of physician-scientist trainees. This R13 application seeks support for continuation of these efforts. The cost of supporting the ever-increasing numbers of trainees attending the meeting has largely been borne by members of the AAP and ASCI. Traditionally, registration fees for trainees are kept as low as possible, and they are waived whenever possible. Fundraising for educational grants from private for-profit and nonprofit organizations has been partially successful in past years to offset costs, but this has grown increasingly difficult with tighter restrictions and the worsening economy. Last year, the Joint Meeting ran a significant deficit. Despite the adverse climate, the AAP and the ASCI are committed to fostering physician-scientist training and to encouraging trainees to attend the Joint Meeting. Hence, in addition to other efforts, we seek support via the R13 mechanism to foster mentoring of physician-scientist trainees at the Joint Meeting via the following aims: I) Expand the reach of the Joint Meeting to early-career physician-scientist faculty members, and II) Provide mentoring between senior physician-scientists and early-career physician-scientist faculty members. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE (provided by the applicant): Physician-scientists provide a critical link between the laboratory and the clinic. The ASCI/AAP Joint Meeting strives to highlight the translational work of well-regarded physician-scientists and to demonstrate that this difficult career path can be navigated successfully. The meeting provides significant opportunity for mentoring of early-career physician-scientists through direct contact with their peers and with senior investigators.