Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health

描述(由申请者提供)：匹兹堡大学致力于提供优秀的女性健康培训。内科医学系提供妇女健康住院医师跟踪和奖学金。流行病学系领导妇女健康研究已有20年，并提供《妇女健康流行病学》课程。1992年，玛吉妇女研究所开始专门处理与妇女健康有关的研究问题，并促进了妇女健康研究和部门间合作的进一步增加。四年前，匹兹堡大学获得了BIRCWH奖，达到了顶峰。在整个赠款期间，已有8名初任调查员作为学者参与并继续参与。该项目试图通过几种策略来改善匹兹堡大学的女性健康研究。第一个目标是向尽可能多的初级研究人员提供优秀的妇女健康跨学科研究培训。由该计划资助的学者将被鼓励获得替代K资助，并在成功后继续参加BIRCWH职业发展计划。该计划已经向其他初步调查人员公布了BIRCWH计划的组成部分的可用性。此外，我们还招募了匹兹堡大学的许多研究带头人，通过咨询委员会的成员身份积极参与该项目。培训计划强调跨学科研究，并通过项目提供对这一战略的接触，但也通过选择一群具有不同研究兴趣和方法的学者并鼓励他们的互动来提供。咨询委员会还由具有非常不同的研究兴趣和战略的调查人员组成。委员会每6个月会见和评估一次学者和导师(S)，并为学者提供跨学科的经验。该项目已成功地通过了多项出版物、基金申请和学者资助。尽管如此，在下一次提交中，我们计划进行修改。我们将使团队指导正规化。我们将与少数群体健康中心和一个新的外部咨询委员会合作，以增加少数群体的招聘。我们还建立了外部筹资的基准。有了这些方法，我们打算让我们的项目更加成功。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Pittsburgh has a commitment to excellent training in women's health. The Department of Internal Medicine provides a Women's Health Residency Track and Fellowship. The Epidemiology Department has led research in women's health for 20 years and provides a program in the Epidemiology of Women's Health. In 1992 the Magee-Women's Research Institute was begun to specifically address research questions relevant to women's health and catalyzed a further increase in women's health research and interdepartmental collaboration. Four years ago this culminated in the awarding of the BIRCWH award to the University of Pittsburgh. Through the grant period eight beginning investigators have participated and continue to participate as scholars. The program has attempted to improve women's health research at the University of Pittsburgh with several strategies. The first has been to provide excellent interdisciplinary research training in women's health to as many beginning investigators as possible. Scholars funded by the program are encouraged by to obtain alternative K funding and when successful to continue to participate in the BIRCWH career development program. The program has publicized the availability of components of the BIRCWH program to other beginning investigators. In addition, we have recruited many of the research leaders of the University of Pittsburgh to become actively involved in the program through membership in the Advisory Committee. The training program emphasizes interdisciplinary research and exposure to this strategy is provided through projects but also by selecting a group of scholars with diverse research interests and approaches and encouraging their interaction. The Advisory Committee is also made up of investigators with very diverse research interests and strategies. The committee meets with and evaluates both scholar and mentor(s) every 6 months and also provides an interdisciplinary experience for the scholar. The program has been successful with a many publications, grant applications and funding for the scholars. Nonetheless, in the next submission we plan modifications. We will formalize team mentoring. We will work with the Center for Minority Health and with a new External Advisory Committee that includes representation from traditionally minority schools to increase minority recruitment. We also establish benchmarks towards extramural funding. With these approaches .we propose to make our program even more successful.