Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Support Center @ Vanderbilt-AAMC

描述（由申请人提供）：范德比尔特- mmc福格蒂国际临床研究学者支持中心（FICRS）旨在培养和管理由美国国立卫生研究院在发展中国家确定的卓越中心内的全球卫生研究培训。我们的目标是帮助培训和激励美国和外国研究生在研究技术和主题领域适用于资源有限和/或热带国家。作为美国医学院协会（AAMC）目前在管理FIC/埃里森医学基金会“全球健康和临床研究海外奖学金”方面的合作伙伴，现已终止，我们对该RFA的回应建立在我们的经验基础上。我们提议的FICRS将根据RFA的规定扩大职责，包括直接资助负责指导福格蒂国际学者（FIS）的网站，资助学者的津贴和费用，以及大量基于网络的信息系统。除此之外，这些职责还包括每年组织FIS的选拔和匹配过程，7月份在NIH提供入职培训，以及建立一个非常长期（20年）的学员跟踪系统。资助赞助地点和FIS的实质性行政作用也将集中到FICRS中。我们的应用程序背后的一个愿景是有效地管理职业转型经验，旨在培养国际临床和公共卫生研究的职业。我们将总预算的15%限制在行政管理上，确保85%用于FIS自身的直接培训和支持。为了进一步扩大可支持的学员人数和他们可以做的研究质量，我们建议从被选中学生的研究生院寻求共同支付，投资学校本身对培训结果的具体利益，并寻求将该计划制度化，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指导临床研究培训的各个方面，为研究生水平的美国健康科学学生和东道国同行在国际站点与有竞争力的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（对抗疗法、整骨疗法和兽医）、护理、公共卫生、牙科、验光和药学，包括少数民族服务机构和FIC/NIH“全球框架”受助者。

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.