Funding for AUPN's symposium on "Combining Clinical and Research Careers in Neuro

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请为为期一天半的指导研讨会寻求资金，题为“如何将神经科学的临床和研究事业结合起来（CCRCN）”。该项目由神经病学大学教授协会（AUPN） （www.aupn.org）、国家神经疾病和中风研究所（NINDS）、美国神经病学协会（ANA）和儿童神经病学协会（CNS）共同赞助。AUPN是美国认可的医学院神经内科或分部主席的专业组织。它的目标是“通过向神经学受训者提供卓越的教育和扩展有关神经学疾病的知识，为神经系统疾病患者提供卓越的护理。”另外两个专业组织，美国神经病学协会（ANA）和儿童神经病学学会（CNS），也和AUPN和NINDS一样关注临床科学家数量的减少，并加入了AUPN和NINDS的行列，为CCRCN提供资金支持。CCRCN研讨会于2003年首次由AUPN和NINDS举办，以满足对更多临床科学家的迫切需求，特别是在神经病学方面。2005年，《美国医学会杂志》报道，所有医生中只有不到2%是科学家，尽管研究活动和资金有所增加，但这一数字仍在下降。当该计划于2003年开始时，趋势显示20年来生物医学研究经费不断增加，但临床医生和科学家的劳动力却惊人地减少了22%；研究表明，超过三分之一拥有医学博士/博士学位的医学院毕业生没有实现他们成为活跃的临床医生和科学家的最初目标。本次研讨会的具体目的是：1)鼓励接受过神经科学研究训练的医学生继续接受临床训练（特别是神经病学）；2)描述和讨论成功融合临床和研究事业的策略；3)探讨科研与临床相结合的满意度和力量；4)描述和讨论获得长期培训和研究支持的来源和策略；5)为学生提供机会与在神经科学领域成功地将临床和研究结合起来的学者见面并建立联系。邀请可能在神经科学领域从事综合研究和临床工作的医学生申请参加本次会议。理想的候选人将完成临床前培训和至少一年的神经科学研究培训。我们会进一步考虑那些已经完成一些临床实习的学生，因为这是许多学生考虑进一步临床培训的时候。这次专题讨论会与这次任务密切相关

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks funding for a one and a half day mentoring symposium entitled "How to Combine Clinical and Research Careers in Neuroscience (CCRCN)". The program is sponsored by the Association of University Professors of Neurology (AUPN) (www.aupn.org), together with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), the American Neurological Association (ANA) and the Child Neurology Society (CNS). The AUPN is the professional organization for Chairs of Neurology Departments, or Divisions, in accredited medical schools in the United States. Its goal is "excellence in the care of patients with neurological disease by providing superior education to neurology trainees and by expanding knowledge about neurologic diseases." Two other professional organizations, the American Neurological Association (ANA) and The Child Neurology Society (CNS), share AUPN's and NINDS' concerns regarding the decline in the number of clinician-scientists, and have joined AUPN and NINDS financially supporting the CCRCN. The CCRCN symposium was first offered in 2003 by the AUPN and NINDS to meet the urgent need for more clinician-scientists, specifically in neurology. In 2005, JAMA reported that less than 2% of all physicians are scientists and, despite increases in research activity and funding, this number continues to drop. When this program began in 2003, the trend showed two decades of increasing biomedical research funding but an alarming 22% decrease in the clinician-scientist workforce; studies showed that more than a third of medical school graduates with MD/PhD do not realize their original goal of becoming active clinician-scientists. The specific aims for this symposium are to: 1) encourage medical students with neuroscience research training to pursue clinical training (with special emphasis on neurology); 2) describe and discuss strategies for successfully melding clinical and research careers; 3) discuss the satisfactions and power of a combined research and clinical career; 4) describe and discuss sources of, and strategies for, obtaining long term training and research support; and 5) provide an opportunity for students to meet and network with academicians who have successfully combined clinical and research careers in neuroscience. Medical students who may be candidates for combined research and clinical careers in the neurosciences are invited to apply to attend this meeting. The ideal candidate will have completed preclinical training and at least one additional year of neuroscience research training. Further consideration is given to students who have completed some required clinical clerkships, as this is the time when many students will be thinking about further clinical training. This symposium is highly relevant to the mission of NINDS, which is to reduce the burden of neurological disease. This laudable goal is directly supported by the CCRCN which strives to increase the number of well-trained clinician-scientists working to find treatments, and even cures, for neurological diseases.