Developmental Adaptation

目前的提案寻求更新儿童健康研究职业发展奖， 耶鲁大学医学院儿科系。耶鲁儿童健康研究的目标是 由NICHD奖资助的职业发展计划（YCHRCDP）继续推动 儿童健康研究，培养医生-科学家从事学术和 儿科调查 最初于1990年作为P30奖项成立，在过去的15年里，YCHRCDP促进了职业生涯 培养了38名研究器官发育基本过程的医生-科学家， 儿童疾病。百分之四十（40%）的获奖者是R或U级的主要研究人员 由NIH资助。百分之三十九（39%）的获奖者是妇女， 独立的NIH资金和学术推广这些女医生，科学家相当于 他们的男性同行。超过30名耶鲁大学教师担任YCHRCDP获奖者的导师， 70%的被任命者接受过儿科以外部门的培训，包括遗传学， 免疫生物学;内科学、病理学和生理学。 在过去的15年里，我们的计划内部不断成熟，我们目前的目标是 从五个方面扩大青少年人权发展计划的影响：（1）扩大我们的职业发展范围 通过在系内和系外纳入新的辅导计划，改进课程;（2） 继续强调女医生-科学家的榜样（我们内部咨询委员会的50% 和21%的拟议导师），并将这一模式扩展到少数民族（12%的获奖者）;（3）扩大 通过整合财政资源，支持医生-科学家职业生涯的早期， （4）加强儿童健康教育的有效性， YCHRCDP通过继续加强我们与儿童健康相关研究项目的联盟， （5）与跨部门的职业发展建立新的联系 项目（罗伯特伍德约翰逊临床学者计划和研究医学计划）在耶鲁大学 医学院，从而扩大了我们的学者的职业发展机会的范围。

The current proposal seeks renewal of the Child Health Research Career Development Award in the Department of Pediatrics at Yale Univesity School of Medicine. The goal of the Yale Child Health Research Career Development Program (YCHRCDP) funded by the NICHD award continues to be the advancement of research in child health by preparing physician-scientists for independent research careers in academic and investigative pediatrics. Initially fnded as a P30 award in 1990, over the past 15 years the YCHRCDP has fostered the career development of 38 physician-scientists studying fundamental processes of organ development and childhood disease. Forty percent (40%) of the awardees have been principal investigators on R- or U-level funding from the NIH. Thirty-nine percent (39%) of the awardees have been women, and the rate and timing of independent NIH funding and academic promotion for these female physician-scientists are equivalent to their male counterparts. More than 30 Yale faculty have served as mentors for YCHRCDP awardees, and 70% of our appointees have trained in departments other than pediatrics, including Genetics, Immunobiology; Internal Medicine, Pathology, and Physiology. In keeping with the internal maturation of our program over the past 15 years, our current goal is to expand the impact of the YCHRCDP in five areas: (1) to enlarge the scope of our career development curriculum by incorporating new mmentoring initiatives both within the Department and beyond our walls; (2) to continue to emphasize role models for female physician-scientists (50% of our Internal Advisory Board and 21% of proposed mentors) and to extend this paradigm to minorities (12% of awardees); (3) to expand support for the early years of physician-scientists' careers by integrating financial resources from the Department of Pediatrics, the School of Medicine, and NICHD; (4) to enhance the effectiveness of the YCHRCDP by continuing to strengthen our alliances with research programs of relevance to child health that are sited in other departments; and (5) to forge new linkages with supra-departmental career development programs (Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and Investigative Medicine Program) at the Yale School of Medicine, thereby enlarging the scope of career development opportunities for our scholars.