Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Support Center @ Vanderbilt-AAMC

描述(由申请者提供)：Vanderbilt-MMC Fogarty国际临床研究学者支持中心(FICRS)致力于在NIH确定的发展中国家卓越中心内培养和管理全球卫生研究培训。我们的目标是帮助培训和激励美国和外国研究生在适用于资源有限和/或热带国家的研究技术和主题领域。作为美国医学院协会(AAMC)目前在管理FIC/Ellison医学基金会“全球健康和临床研究海外奖学金”方面的合作伙伴，我们对RFA的回应是基于我们的经验，该奖学金现已终止。我们提议的FICRS将按照RFA的规定扩大职责，包括直接资助负责指导Fogarty国际学者(FIS)的网站，资助学者的津贴和费用，以及大量的基于网络的信息系统。这些职责包括每年组织FIS的选拔和匹配过程，7月份在NIH提供迎新培训，以及建立非常长期(20年)的受训人员跟踪系统。为赞助地点和财务信息系统提供资金的主要行政作用也将集中到财务报告系统中。我们应用程序的一个愿景是有效管理职业转型经验，旨在培养国际临床和公共卫生研究的职业生涯。我们的行政预算总额上限为15%，确保85%用于FIS本身的直接培训和支持。为了进一步最大限度地提高可支持的受训者数量和研究质量，我们建议从选定学生的研究生院寻求共同支付，让学校自己对培训结果产生具体兴趣，并寻求将这一计划制度化，至少部分地在美国学术界，以确保其可持续性。具体目标侧重于促进在国际地点为研究生水平的美国卫生科学学生和东道国同行提供指导临床研究培训的方方面面，与竞争对手资助的美国知名研究人员合作。到目前为止，我们已经接触了医学院(对症、骨科和兽医)、护理、公共卫生、牙科、验光和药学，包括为少数群体服务的机构和FIC/NIH“全球框架”的受赠者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Vanderbilt-MMC Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Support Center (FICRS) seeks to nurture and manage global health research training within centers of excellence identified by the NIH in developing countries. Our goal is to help train and inspire both US and foreign graduate students in research techniques and topic areas applicable to resource-limited and/or tropical countries. Our response to this RFA builds on our experience as the current partner of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in the management of the FIC/Ellison Medical Foundation "Overseas Fellowships in Global Health and Clinical Research", now terminating. Our proposed FICRS will have expanded responsibilities, as delineated by the RFA, including direct funding of the sites responsible for the mentorship of the Fogarty International Scholars (FIS), funding the stipends and expenses of the scholars, and substantial web-based information systems. These duties join the incumbent responsibilities of organizing the selection and matching process for FIS yearly, providing the orientation training at the NIH in July, and establishing a very long-term (20 year) trainee tracking system. The substantial administrative role of funding the sponsoring sites and the FIS will also be centralized into the FICRS. One vision underlying our application is efficient administration of career-transforming experiences designed to nurture careers in international clinical and public health research. We have capped our total budget at 15% for administration, ensuring that 85% go into the direct training and support of the FIS themselves. To further maximize the number of trainees that can be supported and the quality of research that they can do, we propose to seek co-payments from the graduate schools of the selected students, investing the schools themselves with a concrete interest in the training outcome, and seeking to institutionalize this program, at least in part, in U.S. academia to ensure its sustainability. The Specific Aims focus on facilitating all aspects of mentored clinical research training for graduate-level U.S. health sciences students and host country counterparts at international sites collaborating with competitively funded U.S. investigators of renown. We have reached out to schools of medicine (allopathic, osteopathic, and veterinary), nursing, public health, dentistry, optometry, and pharmacy so far, including minority-serving institutions and FIC/NIH "Global Framework" grantees.